FREE 6-week online course in Nutrition thru UCSF starts 6/24

sajeffe
sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
in Food and Nutrition
This is the second offering of this course through coursera.org and University of California, San Francisco. If you have a little time, this is a good course. If you don't want to keep up with the actual class, you should enroll anyway and you can download the lectures to watch later. If you've never heard of coursera.org or edx.com and you love learning, you'll love these sites! Gogogo.



Nutrition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
with Professor Katie Ferraro


About the course: "This course covers the basics of normal nutrition for optimal health outcomes and evidence-based diets for a variety of diseases. Participants will learn the fundamentals of nutrition science and build upon these to explore emerging diet therapies, to analyze nutrition research and to plan well-balanced meals and dietary interventions for both healthy individuals and those with a number of diseases and health conditions."
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  • daphnemoon
    daphnemoon Posts: 216 Member
    Thanks for the heads up, think I'll sign up for this.

    Despite being a big fan of the online Yale and other itunes U courses I hadn't heard of 'coursera' until last week so I'm looking forward to trying it out :)
  • johnnlinda
    johnnlinda Posts: 69
    Thank you! I'm always ready to learn more.
  • kar328
    kar328 Posts: 4,159 Member
    Thanks, just signed up. Always more fun to learn when there's no pressure to do it.
  • JisatsuHoshi
    JisatsuHoshi Posts: 421 Member
    Thank you
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    Cool.
  • aimforhealthy
    aimforhealthy Posts: 449 Member
    Signed up, thank you.
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    You're welcome! Bump.
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    Bump.
  • xinit0
    xinit0 Posts: 310 Member
    About the course: "This course covers the basics of normal nutrition for optimal health outcomes and evidence-based diets for a variety of diseases. Participants will learn the fundamentals of nutrition science and build upon these to explore emerging diet therapies, to analyze nutrition research and to plan well-balanced meals and dietary interventions for both healthy individuals and those with a number of diseases and health conditions."

    EVIDENCE BASED? That's fantastic. I saw the thread and was concerned it was going to be some alternative med filled course synopsis. Thanks!
  • ksuetorres
    ksuetorres Posts: 139 Member
    BUMP
  • xinit0
    xinit0 Posts: 310 Member
    Wow - they really have widened their offerings lately... there's a whole list of health courses, including a Child Nutrition course and many many others.

    https://www.coursera.org/courses?cats=health
  • supp79
    supp79 Posts: 10 Member
    thanks for the info!
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Most commenters in the Food and Nutrition section of this forum need to take this seminar series. UCSF has been doing a lot of good work for a good long while.

    This knowledge would help clean up this forum a touch.
  • IMD918
    IMD918 Posts: 49
    bump
  • xinit0
    xinit0 Posts: 310 Member
    I've added a couple to my watchlist, and hopefully they'll be offered again, but looking forward to this one.
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    Wow - they really have widened their offerings lately... there's a whole list of health courses, including a Child Nutrition course and many many others.

    https://www.coursera.org/courses?cats=health

    Yeah. For anybody who missed the Child Nutrition course, the professor has a website we're all invited to: http://justcookforkids.com/

    I don't have children and I'm middle-aged, but I downloaded all of the lectures from the course anyway because it's still nutrition education. And, I'm sure the course will be offered again soon.
  • kcrxgirl
    kcrxgirl Posts: 114 Member
    I went to that website but it's just a link to sign up for the course. How can I look at some of the course info?
  • ASaxe23
    ASaxe23 Posts: 158 Member
    just signed up!! how exciting! Anyone know if you can do anything for real with the certificate?
  • LauraHasABabyJack
    LauraHasABabyJack Posts: 629 Member
    Bump
  • 519harley
    519harley Posts: 241 Member
    Sajeffe,
    Thanks for this link! I just joined too
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    Another good course, offered through University of Pittsburgh via Coursera: Nutrition and Physical Activity for Health.

    https://www.coursera.org/course/nutritionforhealth

    I completed the Fundamentals of Human Nutrition course a couple months ago and found it to be very educational and beneficial. The online lectures/exams make it easy to do the coursework at your convenience and if there's an online textbook involved, you can save the material to your computer for future reference. Although there's no actual college credits involved, they're free courses and a great way to expand your personal knowledge.
  • themrsbriggs
    themrsbriggs Posts: 151 Member
    me too!!! looking forward to it! thanks!!
  • DonnaRe2012
    DonnaRe2012 Posts: 298 Member
    bump
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    I went to that website but it's just a link to sign up for the course. How can I look at some of the course info?

    I'm pretty sure if you just go to coursera.org, you'll see what all they offer. Near the top somewhere, it will say "Explore Courses" or maybe just "Courses."
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    just signed up!! how exciting! Anyone know if you can do anything for real with the certificate?

    No, not really. You can put it on your resume, but this form of education is still too new to know how employers will react. Shows initiative though. I'm in it for the knowledge more than the certificates, but I strive for the certificate in two courses at a time for the most part. Right now I'm taking Social Epidemiology as well as History of Rock. I recently finished up with a course about the brain and another one about genes. :)
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    I went to that website but it's just a link to sign up for the course. How can I look at some of the course info?

    I'm pretty sure if you just go to coursera.org, you'll see what all they offer. Near the top somewhere, it will say "Explore Courses" or maybe just "Courses."

    My bad. I just read your question again and realized I read it wrong. At this link: https://www.coursera.org/course/nutrition, on the right side at the top is a video you click on for course intro.
  • Hexahedra
    Hexahedra Posts: 894 Member
    Thanks, I'll sign up.
  • scythswife
    scythswife Posts: 1,100 Member
    I will look at it more. I have a watch list started though. looks interesting to say the least
  • nak1a
    nak1a Posts: 69 Member
    Can someone explain the format of taking this course? Do you just gain access to lectures and notes? Is it interactive? Thanks. I signed up, knowledge is power! :)
  • DatMurse
    DatMurse Posts: 1,501 Member
    looking at her signature thing on nutrition. I bet someone in her family either has, or died from GI related problems.

    Not being mean but when health care providers specialize in something it is usually something that has affected them.

    Mine is oncology

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