NUTRITION IN SEVILLE
FIELD EXPERIENCE IN NUTRITION: NUTRITION, FOOD AND CULTURAL EXPERIENCES
This program offers a unique opportunity to learn about nutrition, food, health and culture in Spain. Two courses will be taken: one in nutrition and a second in Spanish language or culture. The Spanish courses will be taught at the University of Seville. Dr. Jeanne Freeland Graves, the Bess Heflin Centennial Professor in the Division of Nutrition at UT Austin, will teach the Field Experience in Nutrition course and serve as onsite program leader. She is an international expert in nutrition, obesity, trace elements and foods. Dr. Stephen D. Hursting, The Margaret McKean Love Chair in Nutrition, Cellular and Molecular Sciences of UT Austin, will present a lecture on Nutrition and Cancer. The program will emphasize nutrition and food in Spain by a variety of field experiences and guest lecturers from Spain. NTR 352 is open to all majors with the NTR 311 prerequisite. It fulfills the study abroad requirement for the new International Nutrition degree in the College of Natural Sciences and will substitute for the NTR 355 in the Didactic Nutrition degree program.
Tentative topics with activities and trips include food and culture, nutrition
through the life cycle (pregnancy to aging), clinical nutrition and
food service in hospitals, public health and community nutrition in low
socio-economic areas, sports (soccer) nutrition, and the food industry.
UT students will have the opportunity to meet faculty, dietitians and
health care professionals from the Seville public health clinics, and
food and nutrition-related businesses.
All weekly meals and weekend breakfasts are are included in the program fee. Student housing will be arranged by the program housing
coordinator and students will spend the earlier part of the program with host families and the last weeks of the program in a private dormitory. The program includes excursions to the historic cities of Granada (in the interior) and Cadiz (on the coast). Students and UT staff will be supported onsite by study abroad professionals who coordinate program activities and assist students daily, both during and after office hours in the case of an emergency.