
Nutrition
The nutrition major prepares you to pursue careers in nutrition, dietetics, community health, health education, food justice and advocacy, food industry work, and related graduate programs.
The Health and Human Kinetics Department has created innovative courses for each major and minor, helping you prepare to move on to diverse work environments. You will have good options for graduate school or starting a career immediately after graduation.
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The nutrition major prepares you to pursue careers in nutrition, dietetics, community health, health education, food justice and advocacy, food industry work, and related graduate programs.
If you are interested in sports and movement this is the major for you. The faculty have designed this major so you can focus broadly on topics, and therefore be able to enter a work field of your choice.
A major in health promotion will prepare you for graduate study in public health, health program planning, health policy, wellness programs, community health, and dietetics, among others.
If you choose this track, you will be prepared to enter a career in sport management, marketing, retail, and corporate fitness.
If you choose to major in exercise science you will take coursework that prepares you for advanced schooling in the fields of physical therapy, exercise physiology, biomechanics, and sport and exercise psychology.
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Pursuing a minor while at OWU will expand your knowledge, add depth to your major, enhance your résumé, and allow you to explore academic areas of interest.
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Professor Fink focuses his teaching in the general areas of health behavior and health promotion, food studies, and qualitative inquiry. In 2015, he was a delegate at the "We Feed the People" expo in Milan, Italy.
Dr. Andrew Busch returned to his alma mater in 2010 after earning his master’s in exercise science with a focus on athletic performance and injury prevention. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and a registered Strength and Conditioning Coach through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. His research focuses on investigating all aspects of human movement relative to injury prevention and performance optimization.
He currently teaches courses in exercise science, while serving as the faculty advisor for pre-occupational therapy students, and serving on the university’s institutional review board (IRB). His main research focus lies in pre-participation movement screens and their relationship to injury prediction in athletes. His goal is to bridge the gap from evidence-based research to coaches and trainers; providing practical applications for optimizing the health and performance in athletes and non-athletes alike.
After a brief career in professional baseball with the San Francisco Giants organization, Dr. Busch has worked in the fitness industry since 2004, helping individuals of all abilities achieve their goals in dietary, behavioral, and fitness area
Professor Nix is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist (RDN) from Utah. She is a first year faculty member at Ohio Wesleyan University. Her graduate school work focused on behavioral interventions in college students. She plans to continue research in behavioral interventions to improve the diets of various communities, particularly low-income communities.
Coach Martin is the winningest soccer coach in the NCAA. As a professor, he currently teaches Introduction to Sports Management and Management for Sport/Athletic Administration. In 2015, he received a $10,000 grant from the NCAA to study hazing.
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Ohio Wesleyan Study Designed to Keep Athletes in the Swim of Things
Andrew Busch ’07, Ed.D.
DELAWARE, Ohio – One of the latest research articles published by the peer-reviewed Sport Journal is authored by four Ohio Wesleyan University alumni – three members of the Class of 2020 and their professor, 2007 OWU graduate.
The 2020 graduates – Morgan Barnard, Tyler Mansfield, and Liz Mayio – were all Health and Human Kinetics/exercise science majors and members of the Battling Bishop women’s swimming and diving team. Busch, Ed.D., was an OWU sports and exercise major and currently is an assistant professor of Health and Human Kinetics.
Their co-written journal article is an exploration of how the Ohio Wesleyan swim team’s 2018-2019 season affected the shoulder strength of both its male and female members. The article, “Gender Differences in Shoulder Strength, Range of Motion, and Functional Movement across a Division III Collegiate Swim Season,” appears in the journal’s July 17 edition. The Sport Journal, founded in 1998, is published by the U.S. Sports Academy in Alabama.