Spring 2027

Community Nutrition and Health Equity

Community Nutrition and Health Equity covers foundations of community nutrition, factors affecting programs, and delivering nutrition education to diverse and vulnerable populations.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Beth OlsonTara La Rowe

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.64 GPA, 88.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.56 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=45 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 94.9% A/AB (n=39 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Discuss the impact of health care policy and different health care delivery systems on food and nutrition services.

  • Demonstrate cultural humility, an awareness of personal bias, social inequities, health disparities and discrimination.

  • Describe contributing factors to health equity in nutrition and dietetics including structural bias, social inequities, health disparities and discrimination.

  • Develop an education session or program/educational strategy for a target population.

  • Demonstrate counseling and education methods to facilitate behavior change and enhance wellness for diverse individuals and groups.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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NUTR SCI 431 or concurrent enrollment

NUTRSCI 540

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.64 GPA, 88.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.56 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=45 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 94.9% A/AB (n=39 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.64 GPA, 88.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.56 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=45 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 94.9% A/AB (n=39 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

BETH OLSON is recorded teaching in 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 2018, 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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LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 400

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.64 GPA, 88.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.56 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=45 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 94.9% A/AB (n=39 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Foundations and practice of community nutrition and health equity.
  • Factors and resources affecting community nutrition programs.
  • Delivery of nutrition and education programs to diverse communities and vulnerable populations.
  • Impact of health care policy and delivery systems on food and nutrition services.
  • Contributing factors to health equity including structural bias, social inequities, and health disparities.
  • Counseling and education methods to facilitate behavior change and enhance wellness.

Skills

  • Analyze the impact of health care policy and delivery systems on food and nutrition services.
  • Demonstrate cultural humility and awareness of personal bias, social inequities, health disparities, and discrimination.
  • Describe contributing factors to health equity in nutrition and dietetics, including structural bias and social inequities.
  • Develop an education session or program/educational strategy for a target population.
  • Demonstrate counseling and education methods to facilitate behavior change and enhance wellness for diverse individuals and groups.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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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

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NUTRSCI 540 · Spring 2027

Community Nutrition and Health Equity

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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