Recommend Electives

Food Systems Management:

  • STAT-130 (Elementary Statistics) as analytical reasoning gen. ed.

  • ECON-210 (Economics I) and ECON-215 (Economics II) as social science gen. ed. electives.

  • HLTH-340 (ARC Standard First Aid and Personal Safety) free elective.

  • BIO-206 (Food Service Environmental Sanitation) for National Restaurant Association sanitation certification.

  • INMGT-400 (Organizational Leadership) and FN-461 (Multicultural Aspects of Food) for humanities and social science gen eds to also meet design for diversity requirements.

  • PHIL-235 (General Ethics) as part of humanities general education component.

Food Science:

  • CHEM-136 (College Chemistry II) results in a chemistry minor once applied for.

  • FN-240 (Food Science) should be elected rather than FN-124 (Foods).

  • CHEM-135 (College Chemistry I) is recommended rather than CHEM-115 (General Chemistry) or CHEM-125 (Principles of Chemistry for the Health Sciences).

  • FN-212 (Nutrition) should be taken rather than other alternative nutrition courses.

  • PHIL-235 (General Ethics) is suggested as part of the humanities general education requirement.

  • INMGT-400 (Organizational Leadership) should be elected as a humanities and social science gen ed to meet design for diversity requirements.

  • STAT-320 (Statistical Methods) is recommended as an analytical reasoning general education course.

Food Merchandising and Distribution:

  • INMGT-400 (Organizational Leadership) should be elected as a humanities and social science general education to meet design for diversity requirements.

  • PHIL-235 (General Ethics) is suggested as part of the humanities general education requirement.

Food Communications:

  • PHIL-235 (General Ethics) is suggested as part of the humanities general education requirement.

  • INMGT-400 (Organizational Leadership) or FN-461 as a humanities and social science gen ed will help meet design for diversity requirements.

  • TCS-103 (Communications and Information Technology) should be taken as a technology general education choice.

  • Students should strongly consider taking an art and design class (choose from ART, DES, ARTH, ARTED) as a humanities general education course and at least one other art and design class is required for employment as a food stylist.

Food Packaging:

  • Additional courses in packaging are recommended.

  • SPCOM-236 (Listening).

See the General Education webpage for further information on general education requirements and to the Undergraduate Bulletin for descriptions of all undergraduate course offerings at UW-Stout.