A therapeutic nutrition program is designed to teach students how to use nutrition to treat disease. Between lectures and research, students may learn about biomedicine, naturopathic principles, food as medicine and disease management.

Master-level studies involve specialized study in a field of research or an area of professional practice. Earning a master’s degree demonstrates a higher level of mastery of the subject.
Earning a master’s degree can take anywhere from a year to three or four years. Before you can graduate, you usually must write and defend a thesis, a long paper that is the culmination of your specialized research.