Pre-Health Professions

Engage with an array of science courses as you learn about sport nutrition and challenge yourself by designing a nutritional plan based on sport nutrition guidelines. Gain medication administration knowledge in our Pharmacology course as you study drug classifications, adverse reactions, and legal and ethical issues. 

Make responsible decisions about health improvement when you analyze behavior and attitudes necessary to achieve and maintain wellness in our Healthy Living course. Study inflammation and healing, immune responses, genetics and more when you learn about Pathophysiology. 

You’re also trained to apply nutrition fundamentals to promote and maintain the health and dietary support of clients with common health disorders. You’ll learn about Maneuver Therapeutic Nutrition through six classes on nutrients, digestion, metabolism, weight management, lifecycle nutrition, and the interaction between diet, health and disease. 

To get to the point, you gain a broad pre-health knowledge base at Butler. 

Beyond Butler 

You’ll also learn medical terminology and build skills to effectively communicate in the healthcare field. You’ll be an instant asset to the medical team with the ability to connect learned terms to the structure and function of the body systems. 

What You Can Do with a Pre-Health Degree 

No matter what your dream job is, our instructors give you the foundation to get started in your career in positions like: 

• Certified group exercise instructor 

• Wellness coordinator