Diabetes Certificate

The Diabetes Certificate Program is a 17 credit hour program that offers a unique, interdisciplinary opportunity for undergraduate students to become more familiar with diabetes and its management. Highlights of the certificate include a series of three courses: an online course, “Diabetes: From Bench to Beside,” a seminar, “Trends in Diabetes” and an independent study in diabetes. Students will also have a choice of interdisciplinary electives representing Anthropology, Child and Family Studies, Social and Public Health, Psychology, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Communications and Nutrition. Students will also be given unique opportunities for service learning and clinical and/or research experience. This program reaches beyond the classroom, providing students an opportunity to become more familiar with diabetes as it becomes more prevalent locally and nationally.

Ohio University Undergraduate Catalog 2012-13 - Diabetes Certificate

Core Coursework

Diabetes: From Bench to Bedside, NUTR 4320, 3 credits

A comprehensive online course offering an exploration of the underlying genetics and physiology of diabetes and clinically relevant issues surrounding diabetes from medical, self management and prevention perspectives.

Trends in Diabetes, NUTR 4960, 2 credits

Includes a clinical preceptorship as well as weekly seminar discussing the latest trends in diabetes clinical care, novel discoveries in diabetes research and experiences gained on preceptor sites.

Independent Study in Diabetes, NUTR 4932, 3-8 credits

A capstone course with emphasis on research, clinical, or service learning experience related to diabetes.

Elective Coursework

The elective course list is intentionally broad because diabetes engages many basic and applied disciplinary areas. All students will be encouraged to take electives that best match their career goals. With this, some students may have several elective courses within their respective major disciplines, yet they will also have the opportunity to take courses outside their discipline to further enrich their undergraduate experience. On the other hand, students in other majors that have less exposure to diabetes in coursework will have few elective courses within their discipline but will have significant flexibility to complete elective coursework that best matches their career coals and that provides sufficient introduction to diabetes.

Students must choose 6-9 credit hours of elective coursework to meet the 17 semester hour requirement, including at least one course outside of the NUTR program. Approved elective courses are listed below.

School of Applied Health and Sciences- HSP

• NUTR 2600 – Lifespan Nutrition (3 cr)
• NUTR 3000 – Nutrient Metabolism (3 cr)
• NUTR 3100 – Medical Nutrition Therapy I (3 cr)
• NUTR 4000 – Nutrition in the Community (3 cr)
• EXPH 2490 – Exercise Testing and Prescription (4 cr)
• EXPH 4140 (BIOS 4450) – Physiology of Exercise (3 cr)
• EXPH 4495 – Exercise Testing and Prescription for Special Populations (3 cr)

Department of School and Public Health, HSP

• CFS 5660 – Transitions in Development: Middle and Later Life (3 cr)
• CFS 3800 – Death, Dying and Bereavement (3 cr)
• HLTH 2300 – Medical Terminology (3 cr)
• HLTH 2901 – Health Aspects of Aging (3 cr)
• HLTH 2700 – Family and Consumer Health (3 cr)
• HLTH 3100 – Health Behavior Theory in Public and Community Health (3 cr)
• HLTH 3300 – Community Health Epidemiology (3 cr)
• HLTH 3450 – School Health (3 cr)
• HLTH 4100 – Program Planning and Implementation in Community Health (3 cr)
• HLTH 5120 – International Health Programming
• HLTH 4300 – Health Issues: U.S. Underserved Populations (3 cr)
• HLTH 4070 – Interprofessional Gerontology (3 cr)
• HLTH 4800 – Applied Service Learning in Rural Community Health (3 cr)
• SW 3283 – Social Work in Health Care (3 cr)
• ANTH 3550 – Medical Anthropology (3 cr)
• BIOS 2250 – Genetics in Human Society (3 cr)
• BIOS 3100 – General Genetics (3 cr)

Anthropology, CAS

• ANTH 3550 – Medical Anthropology (3 cr)

Biological Sciences, CAS

• BIOS 2250 – Genetics in Human Society (3 cr)
• BIOS 3100 – General Genetics (3 cr)
• BIOS 3450 – Human Physiology (5 cr)
• BIOS 4500 – Principles of Endocrinology (3 cr)
• BIOS 4630 – Cell Chemistry (3 cr)

or

• CHEM 4890 – General Biochemistry (3 cr)

Psychology, CAS

• PSY 3250 – Psychology of Health and Illness (3 cr)

Communications

• COMS 2020 – Communication and Persuasion
• COMS 3400 – Introduction to Health Communication (3 cr)

Independent Study

The Independent Study Program allows students to use "experiences" to count towards credit hours.  Information on Independent Study can be found here (PDF) or by contacting Jennifer Yoder at yoderj@ohio.edu.