.04 Academic Requirements.

For initial licensure as a dietitian or nutritionist, an applicant shall submit proof of one of the following to the Board:

A. Registration through the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the American Dietetic Association and receipt of, at a minimum, a degree from a college or university accredited by an educational accrediting association as required by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, including a minimum of 24 semester hours in:

(1) The field of human nutrition;

(2) Food and nutrition;

(3) Dietetics; or

(4) Food systems management with at least 3 semester hours from each of the following areas:

(a) Upper-division human nutrition related to disease;

(b) Upper-division food service systems management;

(c) Biochemistry or physiological chemistry, or advanced normal human nutrition; and

(d) Food science; or

B. Certification by the Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists and receipt of a master's or doctoral degree from a college or university accredited by an educational accrediting association as required by the Commission on Dietetic Registration in nutrition sciences with emphasis in:

(1) Human nutrition;

(2) Food and nutrition;

(3) Dietetics;

(4) Community nutrition;

(5) Public health nutrition; or

(6) Equivalent academic training such as nutrition education and food science.