Department Profile

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. It offers Nutrition and Health Education (NHE) as a discipline course in B.A. Programme. 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. It enhances their skills as community health workers/nutrition educators. The Department proposes to offer Nutrition and Health as an Application course for students of B.A.Programme in the III year w.e.f the 2006-07 academic session.