The Nutrition & Health Education (NHE) department was set up in 1984, the year in which Delhi University introduced a number of restructured courses in B.A. (Pass) and B.Sc. (Gen). It is the oldest NHE department of the University. Under CBCS-LOCF, it is offering B.A. Programme with Nutrition and Health Education (NHE). The course enables the students to understand and apply fundamentals of nutrition and health at the family level and make them aware of the various nutrition and health related problems in the community. This course aims at enriching the minds of the students who have interest in learning finer points of nutrition. The syllabus covers basic aspects of nutrients, nutrition concerns in various stages of life cycle, food safety, as well as opens a vast understanding of public nutrition and basic therapeutic nutrition. The Skill Enhancement Courses (SECs) offered in semesters III and IV further equip the students to discover vast opportunities in the fields of home based catering and fitness. This course would equip the students for entrepreneurship, community role and employment in health clinics, NGOs, government run programmes etc. The department has one temporary lab.
Faculty: Pooja Jain M.Sc, Ph.D (incharge)
Priyanka Verma M.Sc (adhoc)
Laboratory Staff- Sh. A.N. Singh