Fundamentals of Nutrition | Enroll Anytime Online Course

N&D 240 introduces the essential principles of nutrition science and how food choices affect individual and community health while encouraging you to reflect on your own food intake.

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About N&D 240: Fundamentals of Nutrition

What you eat matters — and N&D 240 helps you understand how and why. This course presents the science behind nutrition and its impact on human health, focusing on major nutrients, food behavior, digestion, and disease prevention.

You’ll learn how to apply evidence-based nutrition principles to your own diet, while exploring broader topics like food safety, energy balance, non-nutrient components, and nutrition through the human lifespan.

This course fulfills a Math/Science/ Technology and Quantitative Reasoning Essential Studies requirement at UND and provides a strong foundation for students pursuing careers in nursing, public health, exercise science, education, or food and nutrition fields.

Course topics include:

• Food Choices and Human Health
• Nutrition Tools – Standards and Guidelines
• The Remarkable Body
• The Carbohydrates
• The Lipids
• The Protein and Amino Acids
• The Vitamins
• Water and Minerals
• Energy Balance and Healthy Weight
• Nutrition and Chronic Disease
• Food Safety and Food Technology
• Life Cycle Nutrition: Mother and Infant
• Life Cycle Nutrition: Child, Teen, and Older Adult

You'll complete 20 lessons, each with a lecture, guided readings, assessments, and reflection. You'll also complete 4 proctored exams via Honorlock and a nutrition study project analyzing your personal intake.

Required Course Materials

You need a textbook and nutrient analysis software for this course. Cengage (MindTap/Unlimited) materials are not integrated with Blackboard and are not required assessments in the course. 

• Textbook: Sizer, F and Whitney, E. Nutrition Concepts and Controversies. 16^th Belmont, Cengage Learning, 2023. ISBN 9780357727751.
• Software: Diet and Wellness Plus [computer software]. (2015). Cengage Learning.

How will the course appear on my transcript?

You may enroll at any time and have up to 9 months to complete this online course. The credits earned will be recorded on your UND transcript based on the date you registered for the course. It will appear on your transcript in the same way as a course taken during a regular semester. There is no indication that the course was taken online or that you completed it at your own pace. 

Consult the table on our How Enroll Anytime Courses Work page for a current listing of Enroll Anytime Registration Dates and the semester information that will appear on a UND transcript.

Why Take Online Classes at UND?

Here are a few reasons why you should take an online enroll anytime course at UND:

• Great customer service – Our registration team is ready to answer questions quickly so you can focus on your coursework.
• Affordable – UND's enroll anytime courses are priced at North Dakota's affordable, in-state tuition rate.
• Accredited – UND is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
• Easily transfer credits – Transferring credits is always at the discretion of the institution to which the credits are being transferred. In general, credits from schools/universities that are regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission transfer to other regionally accredited institutions. UND's online courses appear on your UND transcript in the same way as other courses.

Flexible 100% Online Course

You'll take this online course at your own pace. Some students thrive in this environment, while other students may struggle with setting their own deadlines. If you have successfully taken an independent study or correspondence course previously, UND’s enroll anytime courses may be right for you. Still not sure? Take our online quiz to help determine if online enroll anytime courses are right for you.

Course information including tuition, technology requirements, textbooks, lessons and exams is subject to change without notice.