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Fitness and Nutrition
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This option prepares graduates to provide leadership for organizing, directing, and managing physical fitness programs in business and industrial settings, health clubs, and hospital-based fitness/wellness cardiac rehabilitation programs. The program is excellent preparation for graduate school. This option brings together a strong focus in exercise physiology and exercise programming with a foundation in nutrition, which uniquely prepares our graduates to promote health while working with the public in a fitness or clinical setting.
Future Students
- Visit Undergraduate Academic Advising to pursue this program.
Current Students
- Use the general catalog to view courses offered in the program.
- Use an option sheet (pdf) to track your progress in completing course requirements.
- Schedule an advising appointment.
Prospective careers
*May require post-baccalaureate/graduate/professional education to qualify or certify for employment.
Clinical Exercise Physiologist*
Club Fitness Instructor
Corporate Fitness Instructor
Fitness Entrepreneur
Fitness Program Director
Personal Trainer
Research and Education*
Strength Coach
Strength Physiologist*
Wellness/Prevention Program Coordinator
Additional resources
Our Stories
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Our Future
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