BA/BS in Dietetics

Objective(s) of a study programme: To train Dietetic specialists who will apply the principles of nutrition science in a qualified and responsible manner, ensuring the quality of nutrition correction services, identify individual client/patient needs and provide nutrition correction consultations to people with various needs. Learning outcomes: 1. Explains healthiness terminology, meaning and activities, specifies the importance of requirements and applies them to ensure the provision of safe, high-quality, and evidence-based nutrition correction services. 2. Develops a research-based health promotion program and provides scientific evidence-based nutrition adjustment counselling to the members of public with diverse needs. 3. Provides patient/client nutrition care and ensures adequate patient/client nutrition. 4. Controls the quality of raw materials and products and selects food production technology. 5. Analyses the complex relationship between man, environment and food and identifies individual needs of clients / patients. 6. Analyses practical experience in professional activities, constantly learns, teaches, and consult members of the personal health care team. Activities of teaching and learning: Teaching and training activities are focused on the development of general and professional competencies and on the development of creativity: lectures, seminars, discussions, individual and group projects, practice, case studies, public presentation and defense of projects, mind-maps, problem - solving reading, writing articles, information search and systematizing, etc. Methods of student’s achievement assessment: The assessment of the learning outcomes of the study programme is carried out during the semester and the examination session applying a cumulative assessment system. During the semester, the learning outcomes are assessed by means of interim assignments: tests, individual and group projects, case studies, information search and systematizing, discussions, essays, independent creative tasks, seminars, term papers, practice reports, examinations, final projects and / or qualifying exams. Study subjects (modules), practical training: Study subjects (129 credits): Professional Communication, Computer-based Information Management, Dietitian's Work Ethics and Environment, Introduction to Food Science, Food Microbiology and Parasitology, Professional Foreign Language (English), Anatomy and Physiology of the Food Absorption, Food Preparation Technology, Infectious and Non-Infectious Diseases, Food Safety and Quality, Food Chemistry, Public Health, Philosophy/ Communication Psychology, Customer Catering Organization, General Biochemistry and Immunology, Healthy and Sick Child Nutrition, Dietetic Research Methods, Dietetics and Menu Preparation, First Medical Aid, Wellness Resources Nutrigenetics, Customer Nutrition Care, Sustainable Food Production and Sustainable Environment, Nutrition of a Person Participating in Sports, Catering for the Elderly and Old People, Health Law and Management, Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Dietetics. Elective subjects (6 credits). Practices (33 credits): Introductory Internship, Internship of Client's Menu Arrangement, Final Internship. Graduation Paper (12 credits). Specializations: - Optional courses: It is possible: - to select optional subjects; - to select alternative subjects. Distinctive features of a study programme: KVK is the only higher education institution in the Western Lithuania region that trains dietitians. Dietetics is an exclusive field of study combining various disciplines, such as biology, chemical analysis, physiology, nutritional sciences, to understand the role of food in the human body and the effect of food on human health. Access to professional activity: The graduates of study programme Dietetics work as dietitians in personal and public health care institutions in all levels, which are implementing health care of children and adults. The graduates can also work in regional defense and internal affairs system health care institutions, social care, education institutions, sport centers, rehabilitation and sanatoria treatment institutions, private health care centers, governmental or private public catering institutions. Access to further study: Access to the second cycle studies upon meeting requirements set by the accepting higher education institution.