Regulation .04 Academic Requirements.
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For initial licensure as a dietitian or nutritionist, an applicant shall submit proof of one of the following to the Board:
A.
Registration through the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the American Dietetic Association and receipt of, at a minimum, a degree from a college or university accredited by an educational accrediting association as required by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, including a minimum of 24 semester hours in:
(1)
The field of human nutrition;
(2)
Food and nutrition;
(3)
Dietetics; or
(4)
Food systems management with at least 3 semester hours from each of the following areas:
(a)
Upper-division human nutrition related to disease;
(b)
Upper-division food service systems management;
(c)
Biochemistry or physiological chemistry, or advanced normal human nutrition; and
(d)
Food science; or
B.
Certification by the Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists and receipt of a master's or doctoral degree from a college or university accredited by an educational accrediting association as required by the Commission on Dietetic Registration in nutrition sciences with emphasis in:
(1)
Human nutrition;
(2)
Food and nutrition;
(3)
Dietetics;
(4)
Community nutrition;
(5)
Public health nutrition; or
(6)
Equivalent academic training such as nutrition education and food science.