For initial licensure as a dietitian or nutritionist, an applicant shall submit proof of one of the following to the Board: 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: The field of human nutrition; Food and nutrition; Dietetics; or Food systems management with at least 3 semester hours from each of the following areas: Upper-division human nutrition related to disease; Upper-division food service systems management; Biochemistry or physiological chemistry, or advanced normal human nutrition; and Food science; or 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: Human nutrition; Food and nutrition; Dietetics; Community nutrition; Public health nutrition; or Equivalent academic training such as nutrition education and food science.