# Nutrition (NTRN) courses

Las Positas College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 3 courses

Source: https://laspositas.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/1097/1125/1189

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Summer 2026, Fall 2026.

### NTRN 5 — Sports Nutrition

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/las-positas-college/schedule/fall-2026/ntrn.md)
- Also listed as KIN 1
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Grading Option: Optional

Students will study the role of nutrition in sports, performance and physical fitness. Optimal food, nutrient, and activity choices to maximize athletic performance for all athlete types.

### NTRN 1 — Introduction to Nutrition Science

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 hours lecture
- **C-ID:** NUTR 110
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 3 sections (/c/las-positas-college/schedule/summer-2026/ntrn.md); Fall 2026, 4 sections (/c/las-positas-college/schedule/fall-2026/ntrn.md)
- Recommended Course Preparation: Eligibility for college-level composition as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method.
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Grading Option: Optional
- Cal-GETC: 5B
- LPC-GE: 5, 8

This course introduces the theoretical foundations of nutrition science by examining the biochemical, physiological, and molecular mechanisms underlying human nutrition and health. Students integrate scientific principles from biology, biochemistry, microbiology, and public health to understand nutrient function from cellular to systemic levels. This course emphasizes scientific methodology and evidence-based analysis of macronutrient and micronutrient metabolism, energy systems, and physiological regulation. Students examine theoretical frameworks underlying digestion, absorption, gut microbiota interactions, and the pathophysiology of nutrition-related diseases. Course content includes the scientific basis of dietary guidelines, emerging research in nutrigenomics, epigenetics, food safety principles, and contemporary issues in food systems and nutrition equity from research-based theoretical perspectives.

### NTRN 10 — Perspectives in Cultural Nutrition

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Grading Option: Optional
- LPC-GE: 4

This course explores the bio-cultural influences on nutrition and their relevance to international and domestic public health research and programs while encouraging self-examination and cultural humility. Topics include cultural perspectives on infant feeding, comparisons of Eastern and Western traditions of nutrition, global food issues, dietary habits, socioeconomic influences on food culture, and the social impacts of under and over-nutrition.