B.A. in Nutrition and Wellness
Wellness starts from the inside
Career field
On persuing a Nutrition and Wellness Degree, you will be able to participate professionally in the following settings:
- Private office
- Clinics, hospitals and healthcare institutions
- Consulting in the pharmaceutical and food industries
- Government companies and/or institutions focused on food services and/or prevention programs
Is this right for you?
If you value healthy habits and are passionate about the health benefits of having a balanced diet, then you are in the right place.
The objective of the B.A. in Nutrition and Wellness program is to train professionals who intervene in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of health problems. Graduates of this programs are leaders in the field of nutrition, with professional skills in the area aimed at promoting and improving health, through the physical, psychological and social well-being of the individual.
Competences
- Implement comprehensive wellbeing strategies that transform the lifestyles of individuals or communities.
- Address the nutritional care of healthy and sick individuals, resolving their nutritional and physical activity needs through nutritional medical therapy.
- Develop food products and services that will benefit the health of the population.
- Develop public nutrition projects that will contribute to solving public health problems.
Entry profile
Tecnológico de Monterrey is looking for a new generation of students that have finished their high school studies and are talented, enthusiastic individuals, who are committed to the development of their environment and the wellbeing of society; people who have the potential to study an undergraduate program and become leaders with an entrepreneurial spirit, humanistic sense and competitive on an international stage.
Entry requirements: High school or equivalent.
The three stages of the model
Choose your path
Exploration
- You will open your competency file and add to it throughout your degree program.
- You will learn the foundations of the area of Business.
- You will participate in fundamental and exploration challenges from the area of Business, interacting with peers from different degree programs.
- You will study general education courses, selecting them from a collection.
- You will participate in a challenge that integrates all the competencies to be developed in this phase.
Focus
- You will acquire the core competencies of your degree, in other words, those that distinguish it.
- You will participate in more focused challenges to reinforce what you have learned and broaden your basic knowledge.
- You will have the elements to decide whether to deepen your knowledge or diversify and, subsequently, build your specialization plan.
- The Tec Weeks, challenges and overall university experiences will enrich your file.
Specialization
- You have decided between diversifying or focusing deeply in your major, which you will achieve by choosing a concentration or a stay, to name a few of your options. The TEC Semester is a flexible time to start.
- You will develop the competencies related to your specialization, increasingly connected to your passions, interests and plans.
- By passing a concentration, you will develop your competencies, and, on graduating, will be a candidate for obtaining a Diploma in that concentration, after meeting the established requirements.
How can you specialize?
Concentrations
Specialize in one of the different concentrations available at the campus of your choice, according to the profile you would like to develop.
Internships
Internships allow you to participate in the development of specific projects with companies, organizations, or research groups, in a context of total immersion related to a specialty field. They can be carried out locally, nationally or internationally.
International experiences
Experience life outside Mexico to broaden your horizons and delve into the topics of your interest.
Courses or blocks
Choose the education units that best adapt to your objectives, enabling you to specialize in your specific interests.
Concentrations
Disciplinary
Delve into your field of study
There are no disciplinary concentrations for this degree
Transversal
Delve into other fields of study
- Conscious Business
- Entrepreneurial Families, Sustainability and Transcendence
- Financial Vision for Decision-Making
*These concentraciones are not the definitive offer and their availability varies by campus.
General education course
Area exploration courses
Introductory block (CHALLENGE)
Area exploration block (CHALLENGE)
Exploration topic (CHALLENGE)
Track integrating block (CHALLENGE)
Disciplinary course
Disciplinary block (CHALLENGE)
Integrating disciplinary block (CHALLENGE)
TEC Semester
Multidisciplinary professional elective (CHALLENGE)
Final integrating block (CHALLENGE)
| LNB |
| Segundo Trimestral |
| Clinical Elective I |
| Clinical Elective II |
| Clinical Elective III |
| Professional Elective I |
| Professional Elective II |
| Professional Elective III |
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