UBC Dietetics Major
Student Worksheet for Assessing Courses Taken at Colleges or Other Universities
Student Name:
Dietetics Prerequisite Course
Institution(s):
Courses from colleges1 or other
universities that may be
equivalent
Course you have that may
be equivalent
Course
Still
Required
FIRST YEAR COURSES
BIOL 112 (or MICB 201)
(Biology of the cell)
(3 credits)
BIOL 121
(Genetics, evolution and ecology)
(3 credits)
BIOL 140
(Laboratory investigations in life science)
(2 credits)
CHEM 121 and 123 (or 111and 113)
(Principles of Chemistry) (8 credits)
ENGL 112
(Strategies for university writing) (3 credits)
LFS 250*
(Land, food and community 1) (6 credits)
Social Science, e.g., PSYC 101/102, SOCI
100*
(6 credits)
Microbiology course (3 credits)
First year general biology course for
science students (3 credits)
Biology lab course (or lab
component of first year general
biology course for science students)
First year general chemistry course
for science students (6 credits or
more)
First year English (3 credits)
N/A (faculty-specific course)
Courses that help students to
understand normal human behavior,
particularly in the North American
context. e.g., introductory
psychology, sociology or equivalent
(6 credits)
SECOND YEAR COURSES
LFS 252 (or STAT 200 or BIOL 300 or EPSE
482 or FRST 231)
(Quantitative data analysis) (3 credits)
BIOL 200
(Fundamentals of cell biology)
(3 credits)
BIOL 201 (or BIOC 202)
(Introduction to biochemistry)
(3 credits)
CHEM 205 and 233 (or 203 and 213)
(Physical chemistry, organic chemistry)
(6 credits)
FNH 200*
(Exploring our food) (3 credits)
FNH 250*
(Nutrition concepts and controversies)
(3 credits)
Second year statistics course with
inference (3 credits)
Second year cell biology (3 credits)
Second year cell biology
(introduction to biochemistry) (3
credits)
Second year physical chemistry
(3 credits) and second year organic
chemistry (3 credits)
N/A (faculty-specific course)
Introductory nutrition course (3
credits)
* Up to 9 credits of Social Science (6), LFS 250 (6) and FNH 200 (3) can be deferred until you are in the program,
provided that you have at least 54 credits of coursework at the time of application.
1
British Columbia college students should use the online transfer guide. Select UBC as the receiving institution and
search for the equivalents for the above courses.