DL Nutrition Rosalind Franklin

I am just starting to search out dl degrees. I have a bachelor's but have been out of the work force for 8 years. I'm interested in something entirely out of my field. Right now, I'm considering the correspondence course at American Health Science University to get a certified nutritionist degree before I get a master's. The AHSU degree is nationally accredited by DETC, so I'm unsure if other schools will accept the credit for pre-req's. The one school I have spoken to is not very helpful and needs to see transcripts and have me apply before they will tell me anything. Well, I don't have the transcripts yet, but would like to not waste my time, ya know?

I'm also interested in hearing if anyone knows anything about the DL degrees in Nutrition at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. It seems like a good and decent program, but I'm unsure. I want to have the option to get a PHD once I get a master's, and want to make sure I don't get the master's at a place that is not accepted at a b and m university. It does not appear as though I would be able to get a PHD in this field DL and I'm not sure that's even what I want to do.

In the long run, I may want to teach at university, but more likely, I will be running my own business.

Thanks for any help.

Susanne
obviously a newbie at all of this

 

I was not aware that Rosalind Franklin, the very well-regarded regionally-accredited school that used to be Finch University/Checago Medical School, did anything in the way of distance learning.
http://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/

(I am glad, at least, that Dr. Franklin, whose DNA discoveries were "borrowed" by Watson and Crick, and who was outrageously denied the Nobel that they got, is being honored in this way.)

I have regularly reported here my survey of registrars, from 2000, showing that roughly 20% regularly accepted DETC-accredited degrees, and another 20% sometimes. I am confident that those DETC schools that also submitted their courses to the American Council on Education for evaluation, would have higher acceptance in academia. I don't believe AHSU has done so (http://www.detc.org/ACEcredtRecomm.html).

Do continue to be careful. There are a lot of dreadful and bogus nutrition credentialers out there.

 

Franklin died in 1958. Watson and Crick (and Wilkins) won the Nobel in 1962. The Nobel is not awarded posthumously.

Facts do matter.

 

Yes. They seem to be working very hard on the program and from the conversations I have had with them, are planning for changes for next year. It looks very intriguing.

They are actually listed on this website. Is there any way other than purchasing the most recent ACE National Guide to Educational Credit to find out what classes work and which do not?

Thank you. I understand that the CN degree at AHSU is not mainstream. I am ok with that. I do know of others who have gone through the program, so I know that it is not easy. I also want to find a way to do this and get a master's further on. I hope that if I do my homework ahead of time, when I go to get the master's at Rosalind Franklin, Eastern Michigan, or University of Alabama, I won't be deficient in the basic chemistry, biology, and nutrition pre-req's.


Susanne

 

Franklin's key work in DNA was all completed by 1953, five years before she died (at age 37). Of course she could not have shared in the 1962 prize, four years after her death, but she arguably could have been named in 1954 - 1958.

For instance:
http://www.matse.psu.edu/matse81/Spring_2004/Animations/RosalindFranklinBio.pdf

 

Rosalind Franklin University is doing DL?

Wow! This is one of the reasons why I like Degreeinfo so much. I live less than 10 miles from Rosalind Franklin U. (until recently the Chicago Medical School--an excellent institution) and was completely unaware that it was pursuing any distance learning initiatives.

Right in my own back yard and I had to come here to find out about it!

 

Kansas State has an online dietetics program, which is likely a safe bet.
The program is available to those with or without an undergraduate degree.

http://www.dce.ksu.edu/dietetics/program_info.html