TARA DEVI HARAKH CHAND KANKARIA
JAIN COLLEGE

About

Year of Establishment: 2017
Program Offered: 4 years B.Sc (Hons.) & Hons with Research in Food and Nutrition.

Good food and nutrition are vital to good health and wellbeing, and reduce the risk of disease. Healthy eating means choosing the right food and knowing how much to have.
This is an innovative interdisciplinary course which combines components from Diet Therapy and Counselling, Biochemistry, Human Physiology, Food Microbiology, Food Preservation, Public Health, Community Nutrition, Epidemiology, Sports Nutrition, Health and Nutrition Education, Food Fermentation.
This course is about the science behind nutrition which can improve the nutritional status of populations. The curriculum explores the role of therapeutic diets in the treatment of chronic illnesses and other nutritional disorders, highlighting the principles of the nutrition care process as applicable in a primary care setting. There is an opportunity to learn key nutrition assessment techniques and intervention strategies that will assist students in providing comprehensive health care to the patients.
The students receive basic theoretical and practical training in three major areas, viz. Public Health Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science and Quality Control that will enable them to choose one of these as their specialized career in future.

Features

• Laboratories are well equipped with resources required for conducting practical classes and the library has sufficient national and international books regarding this course.
• Modern teaching methods along with Audio-visual method of teaching are being followed through Smart classes for imparting knowledge to the students for better understanding and comprehensive learning.
• The department holds seminars, poster competitions, wall magazines from time to time to widen the horizon of the students.
• Parent-teacher meeting is held on a regular basis for discussing students' performance.
• The students are encouraged to participate in different academic activities within and outside the college.
• Students participate in inter college competitions on nutrition.
• The department actively participates in community-based programmes by collaborating with NSS unit of the college for spreading awareness on nutrition and health to the college students and the children of under-privileged sections of the society.