Master's Degree - Dietetics

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Summer 2023 Course Information

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

University:

Kansas State University

Course Number:

FNDH 782

Credit Hours:

3 credit hours - $600 per credit

Start/End Dates:

June 05, 2023 - July 28, 2023

Course Description

This course is about development and management of small businesses or private practices within the dietetics industry. Students learn about business plan development, marketing, and cost considerations. Students get an overview of consulting to healthcare and hospitality operations and examine skills required for success.

Contacts

Instructor

Deborah Canter
Office: 785-473-7135
canter@ksu.edu

Campus Coordinator

For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.
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Disability Support Services

To request accommodations for this course, contact the disability support office at your home university. You must register each semester and for each course. Read more about the Great Plains IDEA process for requesting accommodations.

Textbooks

Making Nutrition Your Business: Building a Successful Private Practice (REQUIRED)
Ann Silver, MS, RD, CDE, CDN, and Lisa Stollman, MA, RDN, CDE, CDN
Edition: 2nd Ed. (2017)
ISBN: 978-0880919524

Communicating Nutrition: The Authoritative Guide (RECOMMENDED)
Barbara J. Mayfield, MS, RDN, FAND
ISBN: 978-0880910170

Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive (REQUIRED)
Dorie Clark
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 978-1633692275
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Course Access

Canvas

Approximately 2-3 weeks before the first day of class at K-State, the K-State campus coordinator, Ashley Schultz, will email an instructional course access packet to students for courses taught by K-State. These instructions are also available on the Visiting Students webpage at K-State. By following the course access instructions, students create their K-State eID and complete the K-State Course Access Form. Students meeting all deadlines for eID creation and submission will have access to Canvas by the first day of class.

Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

Comments

Textbooks: Making Nutrition Your Business and Entrepreneurial You are required while Communicating Nutrition is recommended.

University Members

Members of the Great Plains IDEA are universities accredited by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Member universities recruit, admit and graduate students, teach in an academic program and contribute to the leadership and maintenance of the alliance. Membership in the alliance is a selective process that engages institutional leadership at all levels.

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The Great Plains IDEA program was a perfect fit for my schedule as it allowed me to work, travel, and learn on the go. The nature of the program fosters a flexible learning environment, and as a student, you have access to all the tools you need with any online portal. With multiple universities contributing to the course roster, there are numerous offerings that provide students with plenty of options to build their skillset.
– – Kathryn Holt, Dietetics Master's Graduate,
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