DEPARTMENT OF NUTRITION, DIETETICS AND FOOD SERVICE MANAGEMENT
HISTORY
OF THE DEPARTMENT
Physical well-being & Diet have been twinning very well in a health conscious
society. The media and the health care centres have been propagating the need
to care for one’s well-being. With the life time expectancy index soaring
high and the killer diseases index alarming, awareness creating courses like
Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Service Management have been doing the balancing
act adequately. Since its inception the department has served the society by
turning out committed dieticians who are placed all around the world in authentic
health care centres. The department has always been attracting excellent talents
and has in turn sharpened their natural intelligence. The newly introduced course
Clinical Nutrition under the self-finance scheme in the evening stream, though
is a little new to the environment, is sure to turn many heads towards it. The
tie-up that the department has with the various hospitals has helped it to place
its students in covetable jobs. The Masters programme in the discipline with
an attractive aspect like child care is sure to take care of the nation’s
healthy future.
INCEPTION OF THE DEPARTMENT : 1960
| PROGRAMME | DATE OF INTRODUCTION |
| INTERMEDIATE
AND PRE UNIVERSITY
|
1960 |
| ANCILLARY
FOR ECONOMICS & HISTORY |
1976 |
B.Sc.
Nutrition and Dietetics (Nutrition Food Service
Management and Dietetics) |
1985 |
B.Sc.
Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics |
2005 |
M.Sc.
Nutrition Food Service Management and Dietetics (Self-Funded) |
2003 |
HEADS OF THE DEPARTMENT SO FAR :
(1) DR.V. Parvathy June 1985 – May 2005
(2) DR. K.R.S Girija Shyamsundar June 2005 – till date
FACULTY
| S.No | Name |
Date of Joining | Qualification | Designation
|
Area
of specialization |
| 1 | Dr.
K.R.S. Girija Shyamsundar |
|
M.Sc.,
M.Phil.,Ph.D |
Reader
From June 2005 |
|
| 2 | Tmt.
R. Hemalatha |
|
M.Sc.,
M.Phil |
LSG |
Home
Science |
| 3 | Tmt.
Bhavani Pazhani |
|
M.Sc.,
M.Phil |
Lecturer |
|
| 4 | Dr.
Tmt. Muthu Meenakshi |
|
M.Sc.,
Ph.D |
Lecturer |
|
| 5 | Miss
Stella Sathish |
|
M.Sc.,
M.Phil. |
Lecturer |
|
| 6 | Tmt.
Varalakshmi Rajan |
|
M.Sc.,
M.Phil. |
Lecturer |
|
| 7 | Dr.
Tmt. Suresh |
|
M.Sc.,
Ph.D |
Lecturer |
|
| PROGRAMME | HIGHLIGHT OF THE COURSE |
ELIGIBILITY |
B.Sc.
Nutrition Food Service Management & Dietetics |
Field visits to Food Industries / Catering Establishments / Nursery Schools / Hospitals Internship program in some teaching hospital | Students
with a pass in any of the following : 10 + 2 / 11 + 1 with Biology and
Chemistry : Chemistry , Zoology and Botany : Chemistry , Biology with
Home Science or Nutrition
|
B.Sc.
Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics (from this academic year) |
Field visits to Food Industries / Catering Establishments / Nursery Schools / Hospitals Internship program in some teaching hospital | A Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics / Food Service Management and
Dietetics
|
M.Sc. Nutrition Food Service Management & Dietetics |
Field visits to Food Industries / Catering Establishments / Nursery Schools / Hospitals Internship program in some teaching hospital |
A Post Graduate Degree in Commerce
with 55% marks |
Certificate Health Care Management (Apollo Institute of Health Sciences)
Interior Design (Interior and Exterior Ltd.)
Medical Secretarial Course (Apollo Institute of Health Sciences) |
Final year UG students only |
INFRASTRUCTURE
NAME OF THE ASSOCIATION : NUTRIFEST
EVENTS UNDER THE ASSOCIATION
Achievements Since 1999 - 2000
UG Rank Holders
1999-2000
Mathi
Dharnesh Rank II
Jayanthi
Rank V
2001-2002
Divya
Ganapathy Rank VII
Viswapriya
Rank VIII
Devi
Rank X
2002-2003
(Autonomous)
M.Sukanya
Rank I
C. Pavithra
Rank II
Meghna Tolia
Rank III
2003-2004
Srividya Nandakumar Rank I
2004-2005
M.Prema
Rank
COURSE
CONTENT
B.Sc. Nutrition , FSM & Dietetics
Subjects relevant to the present day applications such as Nutritional Biochemistrt,
Food preservation and consumerism have been introduced. Dietetics is offered
as two papers to enable the students to prepare well to pursue their career
both in India and abroad.
M.Sc. Foods and Nutrition
This post graduate course is an epitome of unique strength like laboratory techniques,
adanced studies in carbohydrate & lipids, energy & proteins, minerals
& vitamins and their interrelationships which would aid the students to
enhance their knowledge and skills in the field of nutrition and health care.Biotechnology
is an innovative subject introduced with an objective of enabling the students
to puirsue research in the interdisciplinary field.
B.Sc. Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics
The course curriculum incorporates unique subjects like basic dietetics
, advanced dietetics and clinical nutrition which prepare the student for the
challenges in
the field of health and nutrition. Paper on computer science, book-keeping and
cost accounting, entrepreneurship development and on the job training aims at
developing potentials for efficient entrepreneurial functioning.