undergraduate

Nutrition and Dietetics

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about the

Program

The professional training of the Nutritionist and Dietitian at the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), responds to the demands of the social, political, and economic environment of the country. Through the use of a competency-based training model, from which the integrality of the individual is considered and in addition to cognitive learning, skills are discovered and developed, the strengthening of values, the incorporation of socio-affective and attitudinal dimensions, ethics, responsibility towards oneself, others and the environment, to be able to insert themselves in society as citizens aware of the responsibility generated by being professionals and intervening in the solution of problems in the food and nutritional order that obey the current world.

Bucaramanga, Santander: SNIES 692 | Qualified Registration: MEN N.° 20320 of November 28, 2014.

DEGREE:

Dietitian Nutritionist

DuraTiOn:

10 Semesters

Education LEVEL:

Undergraduate

ModaliTY:

In-person

CAMPUS:

Bucaramanga Health Campus

APPLICANT

Profile

The applicants to the Nutrition and Dietetics program from Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) must have some characteristics that allow them to develop their human and learning potential throughout their career:

  •   Sensitivity and social commitment.
  •   Ability to communicate.
  •   Be critical and disciplined.
  •   With the ability to learn.

GRADUATE

Profile

  • The Nutritionist and Dietitians from UIS are high-quality professionals, they are autonomous, ethical, and responsible. As citizens, they are committed, and as professional, they are leaders in the competent teamwork to:

    • Advise on the selection, promotion and production of safe and nutritious food.
    • Manage food and nutrition services for healthy and sick communities.
    • Plan to monitor and evaluate nutritional and food care for healthy individuals during the human evolutionary cycle.
    • Plan to monitor and evaluate nutritional and food care, for the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with health and nutrition problems.
    • Administer food and nutrition programs considering the socio-economic and cultural factors of the population.
    • Administer nutrition education programs for different audiences, considering the cognitive process, psychological well-being, health and nutritional status of individuals.
    • Interpret the fundamentals of research: scientific, statistical, and epidemiological method, to generate knowledge in food and nutrition and communicate its results.

LABOR

Fiel

The Dietitian Nutritionist can work professionally independently or linked to organizations at the public or private level in fields that are located in large areas:

  • Food and Food Services
  • Clinical Nutrition
  • Nutrition in Public Health
  • Nutrition Education and Communication
  • Research in Food and Nutrition
  • Nutrition in sport.

OUR

Accreditations

The program was again accredited by the Resolution Ministry of National Education by Resolution 16811 of August 19, 2016 for a period of 6 years (August 2016 – August 2022). Resolution No. 00177 of 16 January 2017 corrects resolution 16811.

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APPLICANT

Profile

The applicant to the Nutrition and Dietetics program of the Industrial University of Santander must have some characteristics that allow him to develop his human and learning potential throughout his career:

  •  
  •   Sensitivity and social commitment.
  •   Ability to communicate.
  •   Be critical and disciplined.

GRADUATE

Profile

  • The professional Nutritionist and Dietitian UIS is of high quality, as a person: he is autonomous, ethical and responsible, as a citizen he is committed, and as a professional he is a leader in the competent teamwork to:

    • Advise on the selection, promotion and production of safe and nutritious food.
    • Manage food and nutrition services for healthy and sick communities.
    • Plan to monitor and evaluate nutritional and food care for healthy individuals during the human evolutionary cycle.
    • Plan to monitor and evaluate nutritional and food care, for the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with health and nutrition problems.
    • Administer food and nutrition programmes taking into account the socio-economic and cultural factors of the population.
    • Administer nutrition education programs for different audiences, taking into account the cognitive process, psychological well-being, health and nutritional status of individuals.
    • Interpret the basic fundamentals of research: scientific, statistical and epidemiological method, to generate knowledge in food and nutrition and communicate its results.

Labor

Field

The Dietitian Nutritionist can work professionally independently or linked to organizations at the public or private level in fields that are located in large areas:

  • Food and Food Services
  • Clinical Nutrition
  • Nutrition in Public Health
  • Nutrition Education and Communication
  • Research in Food and Nutrition
  • Nutrition in Sport.

OUR

Accreditations

The program was again accredited by the Resolution Ministry of National Education by Resolution 16811 of August 19, 2016 for a period of 6 years (August 2016 – August 2022). Resolution No. 00177 of 16 January 2017 corrects resolution 16811.

More info: Click Here

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Academic

Curriculum

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Code: 24928                          Credits: 0  University Life and Culture


Code: 23508                          Credits: 2  Introduction to Nutrition


Code: 23427                          Credits: 3  Language Workshop


Code: 23423                          Credits: 3  Physical and Sports Culture


Code: 21958                          Credits: 1  Human Development and Sexuality I


Code: 20422                          Credits: 6  Biosciences I


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Code: 27553                          Credits: 7  General Morphophysiology


Code: 23472                          Credits: 6  Biosciences II


Code: 23438                          Credits: 2  Colombian Sociopolitical System


Code: 23437                          Credits: 2  Psychological Development


Code: 22110                          Credits: 1  Human Development and Sexuality II


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Code: 27554                          Credits: 3  Basic Nutrition


Code: 23441                          Credits: 2  Economics in Food and Nutrition


Code: 23440                          Credits: 4  Public Health


Code: 23439                          Credits: 3  Food Chemistry


Code: 2                                  Credits: 3  Optional Subject

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Code: 23444                          Credits: 3  Research Seminar I


Code: 23443                          Credits: 3  Microbiology and Food Safety


Code: 23442                          Credits: 4  Food Legislation and Standardization


Code: 23424                          Credits: 4  English I


Code: 2                                  Credits: 3   Optional Subject


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Code: 23474                          Credits: 1  Professional Ethics


Code: 23452                          Credits: 4  Food Planning


Code: 23447                          Credits: 4  Research Seminar II


Code: 23445                          Credits: 5  Food Technology I


Code: 23425                          Credits: 4  English II


Code: 22964                          Credits: 3  Business Management I


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Code: 23453                          Credits: 3  Education and Communication Strategy


Code: 23451                          Credits: 3  Nutritional Epidemiology


Code: 23450                          Credits: 4  Marketing Fundamentals


Code: 23449                          Credits: 3  Food Technology II


Code: 23448                          Credits: 4  Nutrition and Physical Activity


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Code: 27557                          Credits: 3  Education and Communication Materials


Code: 27556                          Credits: 1  Nutraceutical


Code: 27555                          Credits: 3  Pharmacology and Toxicology


Code: 23456                          Credits: 4  Collective Feeding


Code: 23455                          Credits: 7  Food in the Human Life Process

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Code: 23461                          Credits: 7  Adult Clinical Nutrition


Code: 23460                          Credits: 7  Pediatric Clinical Nutrition


Code: 23459                          Credits: 3  Quality Management


Code: 23458                          Credits: 3  Local Management


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Code: 40031                          Credits: 14 Integrated Practices I: Food and Management


Code: 40032                          Credits: 14 Integrated Practices II: Public Nutrition


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Code: 40033                          Credits: 14 Integrated Practices III: Clinical Nutrition


Code: 40034-1                          Credits: 14 Integrated Practices IV: Food Area


Code: 40034-2                          Credits: 14 Integrated Practices IV: Nutrition Education and Communication Area


Code: 40034-3                          Credits: 14 Integrated Practices IV: Nutrition and Physical Activity Area


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KEEP IN MIND

Additional Information

1st semester

2023

* Subject to demand

Collection opening

2022 Oct 14

Collection closing

2022 Dec 2

Registration opening

2022 Oct 18

Registration closing

2022 Dec 6

Admission results

2022 Dec 15

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

Anyone who meets the following requirements may register:

  • Having passed the tenth grade or being in the process of doing so.
  • Having taken the Saber 11 State Examination as of 2017.
  • A minimum score of 31 points in each of the tests that make up the State Test: Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, Natural Sciences and English.

NOTICE 1:For applicants exempted from the English test, according to Article 1 of Decree 34 of 1980 of the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, only the scores in Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, and Natural Sciences will be taken into account.

NOTICE 2: Applicants are warned that the use of fraudulent means of any kind in the enrollment and/or admission process disqualifies them for a period of 5 years to be enrolled and/or admitted in any academic program of the University, without prejudice to any penal sanctions that may apply  according to Acuerdo N° 017/95 del Consejo Superior.

A person may not register, even if he/she complies with the above requirements and if he/she does so, his/her registration will be cancelled:

  • He/she is enrolled in any academic program of studies at the UIS.
  • He/she has a disciplinary sanction in force at the UIS.
  • He/she has lost student status for poor academic performance on more than one occasion.
  • He/she is applying to the same program of study from which he/she was excluded due to poor academic performance or has not renewed enrollment in said program.
  • He/she has initiated without concluding studies, more than one Academic Program at the UIS. No person may attend more than two undergraduate programs at the UIS. Article 5, Agreement 16 of 2008 of the Superior Council.

NOTICE 3:In case of being admitted, the student who obtained his bachelor’s degree abroad or its equivalent, must submit the validation of the degree to the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, if you have not done the procedure enter this link


Additional requirements

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Inscription

$100.000

FOR 1 PROGRAM

 

Inscription

$150.000

FOR 2 PROGRAMS

Each semester is settled according to the economic capacity of the family unit. It ranges between 1 and 8 minimum legal wage(s) in force.

Maximum 2 programs per enrollment.

For more information, please contact the Admissions and Academic Registration Office

KEEP IN MIND

Additional Information

1st semester

2023

* Subject to demand




Bucaramanga

Collection opening

2022 Oct 14


Collection closing

2022 Dec 2


Registration opening

2022 Oct 18


Registration closing

2022 Dec 6


Admission results

2022 Dec 15

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

Anyone who meets the following requirements may register:

  • Having passed the tenth grade or being in the process of doing so.
  • Having taken the Saber 11 State Examination as of 2017.
  • A minimum score of 31 points in each of the tests that make up the State Test: Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, Natural Sciences and English.

NOTICE 1:For applicants exempted from the English test, according to Article 1 of Decree 34 of 1980 of the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, only the scores in Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, and Natural Sciences will be taken into account.

NOTICE 2: Applicants are warned that the use of fraudulent means of any kind in the enrollment and/or admission process disqualifies them for a period of 5 years to be enrolled and/or admitted in any academic program of the University, without prejudice to any penal sanctions that may apply  according to Acuerdo N° 017/95 del Consejo Superior.

A person may not register, even if he/she complies with the above requirements and if he/she does so, his/her registration will be cancelled:

  • He/she is enrolled in any academic program of studies at the UIS.
  • He/she has a disciplinary sanction in force at the UIS.
  • He/she has lost student status for poor academic performance on more than one occasion.
  • He/she is applying to the same program of study from which he/she was excluded due to poor academic performance or has not renewed enrollment in said program.
  • He/she has initiated without concluding studies, more than one Academic Program at the UIS. No person may attend more than two undergraduate programs at the UIS. Article 5, Agreement 16 of 2008 of the Superior Council.

NOTICE 3:In case of being admitted, the student who obtained his bachelor’s degree abroad or its equivalent, must submit the validation of the degree to the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, if you have not done the procedure enter this link

Inscription

$100.000

FOR 1 PROGRAM


Inscription

$150.000

FOR 2 PROGRAMS


Each semester is settled according to the economic capacity of the family unit. It ranges between 1 and 8 minimum legal wage(s) in force.

Maximum 2 programs per enrollment.

For more information, please contact the Admissions and Academic Registration Office

OUR

Faculty

Edna Magaly Gamboa Delgado

ND. PhD. Science in Population Nutrition

Alberto Ángel Martin

Nd. PhD. Nutrigenomics and Personal Nutrition

Oscar Fernando Herrán Falla

Nd. MSc. Epidemiology

Adriana Soto Méndez

Nd. MSc. Food Science and Technology

Martha Lucía Cáceres Jerez

Nd. MSc. Business Administration.

Diana Cecilia Álvarez Salazar

Nd. MSc. Food Sciences and Human Nutrition

Elizabeth Herrera Anaya

Nd. Esp. Child Nutrition, Health Services Administration

Patricia Chacón Delgado

ND. Esp. Medical Audit

Laura Mercedes Duarte

Nd. Abg. Esp. Constitutional Law, Quality Management and Audit

Martha Lucía Silva Mora

optometrist. MSc. Epidemiology. PhD in Bioethics

Carmen Elisa Jaimes Jaimes

Dietitian Nutritionist

Maura Liliana Romero Pérez

Nd. MSc. Nutrition and Health Convalidation

Claudia Rueda Badillo

ND. MSc. in Aging and Health

Ligia Gómez Díaz

ND. Esp. in Food Science and Technology.

Elva Esperanza Prieto Pinilla

Nd. MSc in Social Gerontology with FUNIBER

Silvia Juliana Murillo Hernández

Nd. Esp. University Teaching

Sandra Milena Velasco Herrera

ND., Spain in Business Management

Luz Amanda Ardila Chacón

Dietitian Nutritionist

Ximena Lucelly Sánchez Cortés

Nd. MSc. Food and Nutrition Security

Diana Carolina Sanabria

Nd. Esp. Project Management in Food and Management

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Support

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The UIS has established different agreements with national and international entities in order to have a greater impact on their training, teaching, research and related processes in the articulation of the public university with the different social actors.

 

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Contact Us

School of Nutrition and Dietetics

Phone: +57 (607) 634 4000

Extension: 3128 / 3154

Email:

escnut@uis.edu.co

UIS Health Campus

Bucaramanga, Santander

Cra. 32 #29-31

Universidad Industrial de Santander.

Office hours:

Monday to Friday

7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.

2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Do yo want more information?

Contact Us

School of Nutrition and Dietetics

Phone: +57 (607) 634 4000

Extension: 3128 / 3154

Email:

escnut@uis.edu.co

UIS Health Campus

Bucaramanga, Santander

Cra. 32 #29-31

Universidad Industrial de Santander.

Office hours:

Monday to Friday

7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.

2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Do yo want more information?

Contact Us

School of Nutrition and Dietetics

Phone: +57 (607) 634 4000

Extension: 3128 / 3154

Email:

escnut@uis.edu.co

UIS Health Campus

Bucaramanga, Santander

Cra. 32 #29-31

Universidad Industrial de Santander.

Office hours:

Monday to Friday

7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.

2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.