人类健康与营养科学理学硕士

提供MSc程序包括：1）生物力学
The focus is on physical activity and diet as powerful lifestyle determinants of human health. The interaction between genetics and environmental factors determines human health and lifestyle is a major component of our environment.<br><br>Our graduate programs offer advanced experiential learning experiences in the broad areas of nutritional and nutraceutical sciences, general and exercise physiology and biomechanics within the focus of lifestyle, genetics and human health. Within these broad fields, the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences addresses the issues at the level of the individual, not community or populations. The research efforts are focused on understanding the basic underlying biological aspects of health, which are further applied to understanding aging, neurologicalsensory disorders and osteoarthritis, and chronic diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and type II diabetes<br><br>The Department offers programs of study leading to an MSc by thesis and an MSc by coursework and project. Within the MSc thesis program students must complete a minimum of 1.5 graduate credits and defend an acceptable thesis which comprises an account of the student's research. Within the MSc coursework program students must complete a minimum of 4.0 graduate credits which include credits for research experience.