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The impact of nutrition, exercise, and wellness on healthy and patient populations — with the diagnostic tools that assess all three.
BIO 356 examines the impact of nutrition, exercise, and wellness on both healthy populations and patient populations — the people whose health is at risk, recovering, or being actively managed. Students engage the major concepts of human nutrition alongside the role exercise and lifestyle play in maintaining or restoring health.
The course also exposes students to the teaching and diagnostic tools that help assess wellness — the practical instruments healthcare professionals, coaches, and wellness practitioners use to measure where someone is and where they're headed.
Examine Nutritional Science
Work through the major concepts of human nutrition and dietary impact.
Connect Exercise to Wellness
Trace the role of physical activity in health maintenance and recovery.
Apply Assessment Tools
Use diagnostic and teaching tools that evaluate wellness across populations.
Engage Healthy and Patient Populations
Address nutrition and wellness needs across the spectrum from healthy to debilitated.
Communicate Wellness Strategies
Translate scientific understanding into practical guidance for individuals and groups.
A Biblical Worldview treats the body as something worth caring for. BIO 356 builds the nutritional and wellness literacy that any health-adjacent career uses — and that any thoughtful Christian can apply in their own life and in serving others.
BIO 356 brings nutrition and wellness into focus for biology majors and pre-health students. Explore the programs that include it.
