This program of study prepares students to provide services in nutrition and exercise interventions for the promotion of lifestyle change. The program is designed for those students with a degree in an allied health field.
Program Prerequisites:
- undergraduate grade point average of 3.0/4.0
- a 3.0 average in the following coursework: nutrition science, exercise physiology, anatomy and physiology, and organic and/or biochemistry
- a combined score of 950 on the verbal and quantitative sections of the Graduate Record Examination
conditional admission will be considered if: - prerequisites are partially filled and gpa and GRE criteria are met
- undergraduate GPA is a 2.75 or higher and product of undergraduate gpa and sum of GRE scores (verbal and quantitative) exceeds 2499.
Admission to the MS in Nutrition and Exercise Science is a two-step process. Students first must be accepted into the Graduate School before being accepted into the program. The number of slots available in a class is limited each year, so it is possible that students will not gain admittance who have met all prerequisites.
Program:
| HL 601 | Physiology of Exercise | 3 hours |
| HL/FN 690 | Seminar in Nutrition and Exercise Science | 3 hours |
| HL 621 | Exercise in Health and Disease | 3 hours |
| GR 691 | Methods of Research | 3 hours |
| PY 571 | Introductory Behavioral Statistics | 3 hours |
| FN 635 | Energy Metabolism | 3 hours |
| FN 530 | Pathophysiology: Implications for Nutrition & Exercise Science | 3 hours |
| FN 605 | Nutrition in the Life Cycle | 3 hours |
| Electives* | 9 hours | |
| HL 691 | Applied Research** | 3 hours |
| HL/FN 699 | Internship** | 3 hours |
*at least 3 of the 9 required elective hours must come from either HL or FN classes
**HL 691-Applied Research and HL/FN 6xx-Internship may be replaced by HE 694 and HE 695-Thesis if the student chooses that option.