.04 Academic Requirements.

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

(1) Registration through the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the American Dietetic Association and receipt of a baccalaureate or post baccalaureate degree from a college or university accredited by an educational accrediting association recognized by the Council on Higher Education and Accreditation, including a minimum of 24 semester hours in the field of human nutrition, food and nutrition, dietetics, or 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

(2) Certification by the Certification Board for Nutrition Specialists and receipt of a master's or doctoral degree from a college or university accredited by an educational accrediting association recognized by the Council on Higher Education and Accreditation in nutrition sciences with emphasis in human nutrition, food and nutrition, dietetics, community nutrition, public health nutrition, or equivalent academic training such as nutrition education and food science.

B. Course work acquired at a foreign college or university shall be accepted by the Board only if that course work is accepted as transfer credit by an accredited institution of the United States.

C. The applicant may be required to substantiate the relevance of an academic degree, the title of which is not self-explanatory to the licensure requirements:

(1) Through course descriptions in official school catalogs;

(2) Through bulletins; or

(3) By other means acceptable to the Board.

D. Recency of Education. The Board may consider an applicant to have met the academic requirements of this regulation only if the applicant:

(1) Has fulfilled the academic requirements in dietetics or human nutrition within the 5 years before the date of application; or

(2) Submits to the Board proof of continuing education as approved by the Board of at least 30 hours within the past 2 years, before the date of application.