Located in Montreal, Quebec, McGill University's School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition is the oldest nutrition education institution in Canada. The school offers programs leading to Bachelor of Science, Masters of Science and PhD degrees. Faculty expertise covers the following topics: "maternal and child nutrition, Indigenous people's nutrition and food safety", nutrition and food security in developing countries, nutrition to minimize chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes and osteoporosis, "interaction of diet & genes with nutrient metabolism", and "clinical applications of nutritional interventions in hospitalized patients" (see reference). Students may have the opportunity to conduct field research at sites in Barbados and Ghana or at locations in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition
21,111 Lakeshore Road
Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3V9
Tel.: 514-398-7840
Fax: 514-398-7739
Website: http://www.mcgill.ca/dietetics/
The University of Toronto's faculty of medicine offers a nutritional science program designed to prepare students for postgraduate research or professional medical studies, as "most career opportunities in Nutritional Sciences require training beyond the undergraduate level" in their view. The program includes 8 mandatory courses which cover the physical, biological and social sciences. Faculty specializations include nutritional toxicology, nutrigenomics, nutritional microbiology and nutrition and neuroscience. Completion of the program leads to an Honors Bachelor of Science degree. The university also offers Masters of Science, Masters of Health Science and PhD degrees with specializations in nutritional science. The universities nutritional science program is not structured to provide dietetics training.
Department of Nutritional Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
FitzGerald Building, 150 College Street
Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3E2
Telephone: (416) 978-2747
Fax: (416) 978-5882
Website: http://www.utoronto.ca/nutrisci/
The University of British Columbia's faculty of Land and Food Sciences offers a "food, nutrition and health" program leading to bachelor and masters of science degrees. Within the program you can major in dietetics, food market analysis, food science, nutritional sciences, or food and nutritional sciences. The dietetics major program involves four years of study and one year of interning. Broad based courses in the biological and social sciences as well as those more directly related to dietetics such as basic and applied human nutrition, food and food systems, and professional dietetics are compulsory.
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
2357 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada
Website: http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/undergraduate/program/fnh
Fanshawe College is located in London, Ontario. Its School of Tourism and Hospitality offers a two year diploma program in Food and Nutrition Management, designed to prepare graduates for a career in the food service industry. The program covers a range of topics including nutrition and food science, menu planning, food production, facility design and maintenance, budgeting and human relations. Two five week work placements are part of the program.
School of Tourism and Hospitality
1001 Fanshawe College Boulevard, P.O. Box 7005
London, Ontario N5Y 5R6
Phone: (519) 452-4289
Fax : (519) 452-4454
Website: http://www.fanshawec.ca/en/FNM1/?gclid=CNHKw9fp6KECFV195Qod51BVJQ