The Nutrition Department of Yakima Valley Community College can help students who know that they will major or minor in Nutrition, Family & Consumer Sciences, or other related health fields such as Nursing, Dental Hygiene, Sports Medicine, or Health Education. Nutrition is an important course to any discipline dealing with people from birth to geriatrics or students just wanting to learn more on how their bodies work, or how nutrition relates to health and disease.
 

The Human Nutrition 101 course transfers as part of the Science requirement for The Associate of Science and Associate of Arts Degree at YVCC.

The YVCC Nutrition Department is part of the Life Science Division. The Nutrition classes are listed in the catalog. In order to reach more students, classes are offered in Yakima and the Grandview campus at a variety of times during the day, evenings and on weekends. Other opportunities to help meet student needs are offering nutrition classes via the World Wide Web and Interactive Television.