Spring 2027

Nutrition in the Life Span

Examines how nutrition affects growth, development, and chronic disease risk across the life span.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Amber HaroldsonTara La Rowe

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.24 GPA, 55.3% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.11 GPA, 48.9% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.13 GPA, 41.5% A/AB (n=41 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Utilize nutrient requirements and dietary standards in dietary assessment and planning

  • Describe the physiological basis of nutritional requirements throughout the life cycle

  • Describe eating patterns, nutritional problems, and their relationships to health conditions throughout the life cycle

  • Apply appropriate nutrient and food recommendations to individuals based on the stage of the life cycle

  • Explain the delivery of nutrition care in community programs

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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Junior standing, grade of C inANAT&PHY 335 and grade of C inNUTR SCI 332

NUTRSCI 431 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.24 GPA, 55.3% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.11 GPA, 48.9% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.13 GPA, 41.5% A/AB (n=41 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.24 GPA, 55.3% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.11 GPA, 48.9% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.13 GPA, 41.5% A/AB (n=41 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

AMBER HAROLDSON is recorded teaching in Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

TARA LA ROWE is recorded teaching in Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 550

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.24 GPA, 55.3% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.11 GPA, 48.9% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.13 GPA, 41.5% A/AB (n=41 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Influence of nutrition on growth and development
  • Physiological basis of nutritional requirements throughout the life span
  • Relationship of food habits and nutrition to selected chronic diseases
  • Principles of nutritional intervention in community programs

Skills

  • Dietary assessment, planning, and applying nutrient/food recommendations based on life cycle stage.
  • Describing the physiological basis of nutritional requirements and the relationship between eating patterns and health conditions.
  • Explaining the delivery of nutrition care in community programs.

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.11 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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NUTRSCI 431 · Spring 2027

Nutrition in the Life Span

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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