This concentration is offered as an option under the Master of Science in nutrition and integrative health program.
Curriculum focuses on the holistic approach to nutrition and integrative health as a subset of functional medicine.
You’ll learn to combine conventional care with alternative therapies to provide the most natural and least invasive treatments for your clients.
Functional nutrition uses a systems-based approach. You’ll understand how body systems connect and learn to empower individuals to take control of their own health.
You’ll study how to analyze detailed health histories to determine the underlying factors that contribute to various health problems.
Applying to the nutrition and integrative health master's program
Requirements for admission
To be eligible for consideration into the Nutrition and Integrative Health, MS program, you must:
- meet the SFA Graduate School requirements
- achieve an undergraduate 2.5 GPA or higher overall
- complete a graduate-level statistics course if you did not take one at the undergraduate level.
- and be one of the following:
- in your final year of undergraduate work
- holding a bachelor’s degree in nutrition or allied health field from a regionally accredited college or university
- or have 95 or more semester hours of undergraduate work at SFA and be approved as an overlap student.
Ready to complete your application?
To get started, apply to the Graduate School.
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Curriculum requirementsAre classes in person?
Yes. They also are livestreamed via Zoom.
What is the capstone?
A comprehensive exam during your last semester.
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