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HLTH 355Public Health Nutrition

Units
0.50
Faculty
Health
Subject
Public Health Sciences

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 2 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: scheduled, 2 lecture sections. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Food and nutrition are everywhere. We eat and drink every day, with a multitude of factors influencing the food that ends up on our plates, which then impacts our health and the health of the planet. In this course, we will explore the fundamentals of public health nutrition, with an emphasis on the potential to promote the health of populations and the planet through changes to our food system and eating patterns. Topics include healthy and sustainable eating patterns and how current eating patterns compare, food insecurity, nutritional pseudoscience, and individual and ecologic approaches to promote healthy and sustainable eating.

Prerequisites

  • Complete all of the following
    • Complete 1 of the following
    • Students must be in level 3A or higher

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

Winter 2027 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
SectionClassEnrolledMeets
LEC 00129630 / 60M 14:30–17:20
LEC 701114052 / 9999Online or by arrangement

Reviewed on UW Flow

71% liked it69% easy72% useful

From 14 ratings and 4 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • I absolutely love this class! The content is so interesting and I had the best prof Dr. Neufeld. This was the class that helped me to see what I really want to do in life. 10/10

    Aug 2026 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • necessarily difficult and highly disorganized, the marking is unfair, as expectations do not align with the rubric

    Mar 2025 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Didn't enjoy this course too much at first because I find her learn pages are really overwhelming and the structure of lecture is a learning curve. The course content and professor grew on me. I ended up enjoying the course a lot. Expect a lot of group work. Ended with a 90.

    Apr 2023 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • I don't like the teaching style of this course. She preached "non-memorization" all term and then asked us specific statistics on the final. We got zero insight into what the final would be like (I didn't know which topics, how long, the sorts of questions etc.), and although I walked out of the exam feeling crappy, I ended up getting over a 90 (maybe she bellcurved..?). The group assignment is terrible, although it could be b/c I had a terrible group who refused to use my ideas yet had none of their own. This class made me never want to be in a group project again. The information was not well-organized and if you miss class, there's no other way to obtain the information (the slides are…

    Jan 2017 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

7 posts and comments in 5 threads mention HLTH 355, October 2017 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Fall 2023

Bird HLTH courses 1 point, 1 comment

“Hi I’m wondering if anyone from faculty of health knows easy Hlth courses. Many of our courses say in person I’ve had courses that are fully assignment based and require very little course knowledge. …”

u/Soft-Presentation-95: “… I am taking this next semester, along with HLTH 392 and 355 to have some "chill" courses while I take some other, more difficult courses. …”

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Spring 2022

Course selection 1 point, 1 comment

u/Midnightabe: “I’m trying to get into HLTH 355 and BIOL 201 but it says I can’t enrol in them because I don’t meet the reserve capacity requirements. This is my first time not getting into a course and idk what to do. Any ideas of who I can contact quickly? Thank you”

u/tendstofortytwo: “As you can see here, HLTH 355 has one open spot and it's reserved for Public Health students: https://classes.uwaterloo.ca/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/infocour/salook.pl?level=under&sess=1229&subject=HLTH&cournum=355 Similarly, BIOL 201 has spots reserved for people in science and people …”

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Spring 2019

Any Insight on HLTH 355, LS 263 and HLTH 373 with Perlman? 2 points, 1 comment

u/JKK26: “I've heard bad things about hlth 355, but am interested in taking it. Can any upper year health students provide any insight? I couldn't find many reviews on LS 263, but it sounds interesting. Also unsure what the mental health systems seminar is like with Perlman.”

u/vgab90: “… HLTH 355 is interesting topic wise - Dr. Kirkpatrick covers a lot of ground in regards to nutrition, personally my favourite aspect of the course was the stuff about diets/nutrition pseudoscience i.e Keto, intermittent fasting, social media influencers etc. …”

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Fall 2018

Fall 2017

Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments

“posting a reply to my comment I find the bot annoying.”

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