UNDERGRADUATE
Nutrition and Dietetics
about the
Program
The professional training of the Nutritionist and Dietitian at the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), responds to the demands of the social, political, and economic environment of the country. Through the use of a competency-based training model, from which the integrality of the individual is considered and in addition to cognitive learning, skills are discovered and developed, the strengthening of values, the incorporation of socio-affective and attitudinal dimensions, ethics, responsibility towards oneself, others and the environment, to be able to insert themselves in society as citizens aware of the responsibility generated by being professionals and intervening in the solution of problems in the food and nutritional order that obey the current world.
Bucaramanga, Santander: SNIES 692 | Qualified Registry: Resolución del Ministerio de Educación Nacional (MEN) No. 001045 del 1 de feberero de 2022.
DEGREE:
Dietitian Nutritionist
Duration:
10 Semesters
Modality:
In-Person / In-Spanish
Campus:
Bucaramanga Health Campus
APPLICANT
profile
.
The applicants to the Nutrition and Dietetics program from Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) must have some characteristics that allow them to develop their human and learning potential throughout their career:
- Sensitivity and social commitment
- Ability to communicate
- Be critical and disciplined
- With the ability to learn
GRADUATE
profile
.
The Nutritionist and Dietitians from UIS are high-quality professionals, they are autonomous, ethical, and responsible. As citizens, they are committed, and as professional, they are leaders in the competent teamwork to:
- Advise on the selection, promotion and production of safe and nutritious food.
- Manage food and nutrition services for healthy and sick communities.
- Plan to monitor and evaluate nutritional and food care for healthy individuals during the human evolutionary cycle.
- Plan to monitor and evaluate nutritional and food care, for the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with health and nutrition problems.
- Administer food and nutrition programs considering the socio-economic and cultural factors of the population.
- Administer nutrition education programs for different audiences, considering the cognitive process, psychological well-being, health and nutritional status of individuals.
- Interpret the fundamentals of research: scientific, statistical, and epidemiological method, to generate knowledge in food and nutrition and communicate its results.
LABOR
field
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The Dietitian Nutritionist can work professionally independently or linked to organizations at the public or private level in fields that are located in large areas:
- Food and Food Services
- Clinical Nutrition
- Nutrition in Public Health
- Nutrition Education and Communication
- Research in Food and Nutrition
- Nutrition in sport
OUR
accreditations
.
accredited for eight years, according to Resolution No. 003641 of April 1, 2024, by Ministry of National Education.
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Academic
Curriculum
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Code: 24928 Credits: 0 - University Life and Culture
Code: 23508 Credits: 2 - Introduction to Nutrition
Code: 23427 Credits: 3 - Language Workshop
Code: 23423 Credits: 3 - Physical and Sports Culture
Code: 21958 Credits: 1 - Human Development and Sexuality I
Code: 20422 Credits: 6 - Biosciences I
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Code: 27553 Credits: 7 - General Morphophysiology
Code: 23472 Credits: 6 - Biosciences II
Code: 23438 Credits: 2 - Colombian Sociopolitical System
Code: 23437 Credits: 2 - Psychological Development
Code: 22110 Credits: 1 - Human Development and Sexuality II
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Code: 27554 Credits: 3 - Basic Nutrition
Code: 23441 Credits: 2 - Economics in Food and Nutrition
Code: 23440 Credits: 4 - Public Health
Code: 23439 Credits: 3 - Food Chemistry
Code: 2 Credits: 3 - Optional Subject
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Code: 23444 Credits: 3 - Research Seminar I
Code: 23443 Credits: 3 - Microbiology and Food Safety
Code: 23442 Credits: 4 - Food Legislation and Standardization
Code: 23424 Credits: 4 - English I
Code: 2 Credits: 3 - Optional Subject
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Code: 23474 Credits: 1 - Professional Ethics
Code: 23452 Credits: 4 - Food Planning
Code: 23447 Credits: 4 - Research Seminar II
Code: 23445 Credits: 5 - Food Technology I
Code: 23425 Credits: 4 - English II
Code: 22964 Credits: 3 - Business Management I
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Code: 23453 Credits: 3 - Education and Communication Strategy
Code: 23451 Credits: 3 - Nutritional Epidemiology
Code: 23450 Credits: 4 - Marketing Fundamentals
Code: 23449 Credits: 3 - Food Technology II
Code: 23448 Credits: 4 - Nutrition and Physical Activity
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Code: 27557 Credits: 3 - Education and Communication Materials
Code: 27556 Credits: 1 - Nutraceutical
Code: 27555 Credits: 3 - Pharmacology and Toxicology
Code: 23456 Credits: 4 - Collective Feeding
Code: 23455 Credits: 7 - Food in the Human Life Process
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Code: 23461 Credits: 7 - Adult Clinical Nutrition
Code: 23460 Credits: 7 - Pediatric Clinical Nutrition
Code: 23459 Credits: 3 - Quality Management
Code: 23458 Credits: 3 - Local Management
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Code: 40031 Credits: 14 - Integrated Practices I: Food and Management
Code: 40032 Credits: 14 - Integrated Practices II: Public Nutrition
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Code: 40033 Credits: 14 - Integrated Practices III: Clinical Nutrition
Code: 40034-1 Credits: 14 - Integrated Practices IV: Food Area
Code: 40034-2 Credits: 14 - Integrated Practices IV: Nutrition Education and Communication Area
Code: 40034-3 Credits: 14 - Integrated Practices IV: Nutrition and Physical Activity Area
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Bucaramanga
OUR
Faculty
Ana Paola Mora Vergara
Doctora en Ciencias del Comportamiento con Orientación en Alimentación y Nutrición
Our
reach
Students
*Second semester
2023 data
Alumni
*Data taken until
september 2023
RESEARCH Groups and
Hotbeds
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Contact Us
School of Nutrition and Dietetics
Telephone: +57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 3128 – 3154
E-mail: escnut@uis.edu.co
UIS Health Campus
Bucaramanga, Santander
Cra. 32 # 29 – 31
Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.