MANAGEMENT IN DIETETICS
Evaluate research and apply management principles in dietetics practice. Enhance leadership and management skills for settings such as hospitals, long-term care facilities, schools, universities, prisons, and other locations where food and nutrition services are administered.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Declared in Clinical Nutrition MS or the Capstone Certificate in Clinical Nutrition Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply professionalism and related topics to career development. Audience: Graduate 2. Enhance critical thinking and decision-making skills. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply leadership and management theories, especially useful for managing a professional staff. Audience: Graduate 4. Develop a business plan for an area of advanced practice, including a logic model, marketing plan, implementation plan, budgeting system, and outcomes measurement. Audience: Graduate 5. Apply a framework to assess, develop, implement and evaluate products, programs and services. Audience: Graduate 6. Demonstrate leadership skills to guide practice Audience: Graduate 7. Apply principles of organization management Audience: Graduate 8. Apply project management principles to achieve project goals and objectives. Audience: Graduate 9. Lead quality and performance improvement activities to measure, evaluate and improve a program’s services, products and initiatives. Audience: Graduate 10. Develop and lead implementation of risk management strategies and programs. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply professionalism and related topics to career development. Audience: Graduate 2. Enhance critical thinking and decision-making skills. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply leadership and management theories, especially useful for managing a professional staff. Audience: Graduate 4. Develop a business plan for an area of advanced practice, including a logic model, marketing plan, implementation plan, budgeting system, and outcomes measurement. Audience: Graduate 5. Apply a framework to assess, develop, implement and evaluate products, programs and services. Audience: Graduate 6. Demonstrate leadership skills to guide practice Audience: Graduate 7. Apply principles of organization management Audience: Graduate 8. Apply project management principles to achieve project goals and objectives. Audience: Graduate 9. Lead quality and performance improvement activities to measure, evaluate and improve a program’s services, products and initiatives. Audience: Graduate 10. Develop and lead implementation of risk management strategies and programs. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027