2. Specialty in nutrition:

   • a. a minimum of three years of successful experience in teaching, nutrition education, public health nutrition, clinical or administrative dietetics, cooperative extension, or food service management;

   • b. graduate and/or undergraduate course work, as follows:

   • i. nutrition, 18 semester hours--six semester hours in nutrition related to humans, and 12 semester hours may include nutrition, physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, or bacteriology;

   • ii. foods, nine semester hours;

   • iii. statistics, research methodology, or evaluative techniques, three semester hours; and

   • iv. a minimum of 12 semester hours in at least two of the following subjects:

   • (a). quantity food preparation or quantity cookery;

   • (b). child or adolescent psychology;

   • (c). communication and speech;

   • (d). educational materials and/or methods;

   • (e). personnel or institutional management.

A. Child Nutrition Program Supervisor--valid for life with continuous service.

B. Basic Eligibility Requirements. A master's degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education.

C. Eligibility Requirements in Areas of Specialty

• 1. Specialty in Food Service:
• a. a minimum of three years of successful experience in home economics education or quantity food service management; and
• b. a minimum of 21 semester hours--six semester hours in nutrition related to humans, three semester hours inquantity food preparation, and 12 semester hours in at least four of the following subjects:
• i. quantity food service;
• ii. organization and management;
• iii. quantity food service equipment and layout;
• iv. accounting;
• v. statistics;
• vi. microbiology;
• vii. food service or technology.