Human Health Track

The Human Health Track provides a strong knowledge base and fundamental understanding of nutrition principles supported by a wide range of courses in chemistry, statistics, genetics, biochemistry, microbiology, and anatomy and physiology to prepare for a broad range of human health careers.

The goal of this curriculum is to give students a broad education in the nutritional sciences in preparation for a variety of career opportunities.

Program Details

• Degree: B.S. Nutrition
• Credit Hours: 120 total credit hours

Electives for Common Professional Career Paths

Students should always consult specific professional schools they are applying to as these recommendations are based on Texas A&M programs.

Graduate School

• NUTR 469: Experimental Nutrition Laboratory
• NUTR 489: Mechanisms of Nutrition and Disease

Medical School

• NUTR 412: Nutritional Treatment of Disease
• NUTR 471: Evidence-Based Practice and Synthesis Methods
• NUTR 489: Mechanisms of Nutrition and Disease
• PBSI 107: Introduction to Psychology
• PHYS 201: College Physics I
• PHYS 202: College Physics II

Dental School

• COMM 101: Introduction to Communication or COMM 203: Public Speaking
• PBSI 107: Introduction to Psychology
• SOCI 205: Introduction to Sociology

Nursing School

• COMM 203: Public Speaking
• PBSI 225: Developmental Lifespan Psychology
  
  Students completing these courses for nutrition pre-reqs will also earn a Minor in Nutrition
• NUTR 366: Nutrition and the Human Body I
• NUTR 367: Nutrition and the Human Body I
• NUTR 440: Ethics in Nutrition ad Health
• NUTR 440: Microbes and Microbiome in Nutrition

Pharmacy School

• COMM 203: Public Speaking
• PHYS 201: College Physics I

Physician Assistant School

• PBSI 107: Introduction to Psychology