Exercise Science Major - Nutrition Concentration

If you desire to pursue a career in the nutrition field, it’s important to not only be passionate about nutrition but also know how to effectively communicate and relate to others. While navigating these relationships, you will also need to know how to be flexible and creative when unexpected situations arise.

In the nutrition field, you will work as an educator, advancing your clients knowledge and understanding of how food influences their metabolism. This may include teaching them how to cook or prepare foods. When serving each client, you’ll emphasize the importance of a diverse diet, and how to eat with certain health conditions. No matter which profession you choose, nutrition is an influential field that brings joy and freedom to your kitchen and creates a more healthy lifestyle free of disease.

Learn more about Grace’s exercise science program. 

In this concentration, you will explore topics like chemistry, nutrition, energy metabolism, and sports performance. 

As a Grace student in the exercise science program pursuing a degree in nutrition, you’ll complete a hybrid program that offers you a combination of both on-campus and online courses that prepare you for Graduate programs in nutrition. 

For this major, you’ll take classes such as Nutrition for Sport, Nutrition Assessment, and Life Cycles of Nutrition. These courses will help prepare you for a hands-on internship, where you’ll apply your knowledge of nutrition to real-life situations. 

This concentration will help prepare students passionate about nutrition for a nutrition coaching certification or graduate school program. For students who desire to become a nutritionist or dietician, a masters education is required post-undergraduate education. Students will be equipped for the graduate school they choose, no matter which career they pursue. 

As a Christian College with nutrition majors, your courses will center on God as the ultimate creator of the human body. You will learn how God created food not only for sustenance, but to promote your health and protect you from diseases. Furthermore, you will explore how God created food for enjoyment and communion with others. 

What can you do with a nutrition degree? After college, a world of possibilities opens up to you within the exercise science field. 

Following graduation, there are many new career opportunities that you could pursue: a sports nutritionist, nutrition coach, dietician, and more.

Every exercise science major is required to complete an internship to apply their knowledge within the field. You will have opportunities to intern in research labs, the YMCA, fitness centers, and different sports organizations.