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Dibs Fall 2026

COM HLT 48

Nutrition and Food Studies: Principles and Practice

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Overview of nutritional sciences and public health nutrition. Examination of basic science concepts of nutrition and application of them to student lives and real-world issues through lectures, videos, diet analysis, activities, reports, discussion of video and reading assignments, and reviews of community programs that apply nutrition and behavior theory to improve health of public. Students use observational research methods to create and answer questions about nutrition question in their cohort. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.64
n = 194 · 3 terms · ± 0.038
A range
86%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
8%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
6.2%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Grade distribution

  • A+ 49 · 23.2%
  • A 86 · 40.8%
  • A- 32 · 15.2%
  • B+ 3 · 1.4%
  • B 7 · 3.3%
  • B- 1 · 0.5%
  • C+ 2 · 0.9%
  • C- 2 · 0.9%
  • D+ 1 · 0.5%
  • D 3 · 1.4%
  • F 8 · 3.8%
  • P 16 · 7.6%
  • I 1 · 0.5%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
HERMAN, DENA R 3.72 3.73 133 3 91%
MUTH, NATALIE D 3.46 3.42 61 2 75%

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

By term