WageningenX: NUTR102x Nutrition and Health: Micronutrients and Malnutrition

Professional Certificate Programme

Sometimes you want to take a course just for the sheer joy of learning something new. But sometimes you need to complete a course for a better job, a promotion, or a college application.

“It's so hard to say what the most valuable thing I've learned is, as there are numerous. I think it's the application to daily food choices for me and my family and the awareness of how nutrition impacts the world.”

A verified certificate from edX and Wageningen University & Research can provide proof for an employer, school, or other institution that you have successfully completed this online course. Verified certificates require you to verify your identity using a webcam and a government-issued ID, so employers and schools know that you completed the course work. The certificate and any graded assignments are only available to verified learners.

This course is also part of the Professional Certificate Programme Food, Nutrition and Health. Professional Certificate programmes are series of courses designed by industry leaders and top universities to build and enhance critical professional skills needed to succeed in today's most in-demand fields.

Here is everything you need to know about it:

What is the difference between audit and verified track?

• What specific content is available for audit / verified learners in this course?
• Why is some content only available to verified learners?

What is the Professional Certificate Programme Food, Nutrition and Health

• What is a Professional Certificate Programme?
• What is the difference between Professional Certificate Programme and the verified track?
• For whom is this programme intended?
• What will you learn in the different tracks?

How to upgrade to the verified track?

• Verification process
• Upgrade for the entire Professional Certificate Programme (receive a 10% discount)
• Financial assistance

What's the difference between audit and verified track?

This course is part of a Professional Certificate Programme, made for professionals working in the field of nutrition, food or health. This course builds and enhances critical professionals skills needed in today’s in-demand field of nutritional science. The course offers two possibilities: an audit track and a verified learner track. The audit track comprises most of the course but also lacks important information, particular on the relation between nutrition and health. All graded assignments are only available to learners in the verified track. The verified track provides the complete course and the full experience. 

If you are looking for some basics about nutritional science, we welcome you in the audit track. However we encourage everyone who want to use this course (or the programme) for a career enhancement and who’s looking for more in-depth knowledge about micronutrients in relation to health, to upgrade to the verified track to get access to all course materials.     

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What is the Professional Certificate Programme Food, Nutrition and Health?

A Professional Certificate Programme is a series of courses, designed by industry leaders and top universities to build and enhance critical professional skills needed to succeed in today's most in-demand fields, such as nutritional sciences. The Professional Certificate Programme Food, Nutrition and Health consist of two courses:

• Micronutrients and Malnutrition (this course)
• Macronutrients and Overnutrition (find out more about this course)
  

You can join each individual course, but if you join both courses, you will recognize that they build on each other. The combination of the two courses will optimally prepare you to analyse and interpret the information overload about nutrition and health to help build a healthier lifestyle for you and/or your patients. 

To obtain the Programme Certificate you have to enroll in the verified track of both courses and pass both courses: 

How to upgrade to the verified track?

Upgrading takes just three easy steps:

1. Upload identifying photos. Using a webcam, you'll take photos of yourself and your government-issued photo ID. The edX software will evaluate your photos and verify that you're the person completing the course. 
2. Study hard and pass the course. Both edX and Wageningen University & Research are known for their high-quality, rigorous courses. To qualify for your verified certificate, you'll need to watch course videos, participate in the discussion forums, and complete homework and exams with a passing grade. If you don't pass, you can take the course again at a later time.
3. Congratulations—you’ve passed the course! When you pass your course, you'll receive a certificate that includes an "edX verified" stamp showing that you and you alone took and passed the course. Share your certificate with friends, employers and others through an easy-to-share link we provide.

If you upgrade for the two courses in the Professional Certificate Programme Food, Nutrition and Health at the same time, you get a 10% discount.

• Upgrade for this course only ($99)
• Upgrade for the Professional Certificate Programme (two courses for $178.20) 

Some learners cannot afford the verified track enrollment fee but still want to earn a verified certificate. EdX offers financial assistance to learners who demonstrate that paying the verified certificate fee would cause economic hardship. Please go to the edX help center for more information.

If you have any questions about refunds, please have a look at the edX help center. 

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