Nutrition and Health | Faculty of Engineering

Course Code:

PHAR 151

Course Period:

Autumn

Course Type:

Core

Credits:

2

Theoric:

2

Practice:

0

Laboratory Hour:

0

ECTS:

4

Course Language:

English

Course Objectives:

The aim of this course is to provide understanding the relationship between dietary habits and health of society and to give them positive habits use throughout their life on this topic

Course Content:

a)Therotical part

Basic nutrients and their biochemical importances, disorders related with nutrition, diseases, nutrition suggestions, example studies related with topic,

Course Methodology:

1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion, 4: Presentation, 5:Simulation, 6: Video, 7: Applications, 8:Case Study

Course Evaluation Methods:

A:Written exam, B: multiple chose , C:Filing the blank D:False and troth, E: Oral Exam F: Portfolio, G: Contrabution of course activities H:Homework

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes	Programme learning outcomes	Teaching Methods	Assessment Methods
1) Explains the Features on proteins, carbohydrates and lipids	1	1,2,3	A,B,C
2) Explains the importance of vitamins and minerals in nutrition	1	1,2,3	A,B,C
3) Explains the proper nutrition suggestions	1	1,2,3	A,B,C
4) knows that healthy nutrition habits	1	1,2,3	A,B,C
5) Explain the relationship between nutrition disorders and diseases	1	1,2,3	A,B,C
6) explain the metabolic changes in fasting and postprandial state	1	1,2,3	A,B,C

Course Flow

Week	Teorical Topics	Lab content	Study Materials
1	INTRODUCTION	none	Known nutrition habits
2	food pyramid and basic components	none	All nutrition components
3	The concept of caloric and energy balance	none	calculated caloric value of nutritients
4	carbohydrates and proteins	none	the basic properties of the two food components
5	Lipids and cholesterol	none	biochemical significance of the cholesterol, theory of lipids
6	Features of vitamins	none	Fat and water soluble vitamins
7	Features of minerals	none	Mineral metabolism
8	Midterm Exam	none
9	Metabolism in fasting	none	Biochemical changes in fasting state
10	Metabolism in well state	none	Biochemical changes in well state
11	Lipoprotein metabolism	none	Classification and metabolism of lipoproteins
12	Lipoproteins and atherosclerosis	none	Heart diseases and nutrition
13	Diabetes mellitus and nutrition	none	Metabolic changes in diabetes mellitus
14	Cancer and nurtition	none	Relationship cancer and nutrition
15	Scientific studies related with nutrition	none	Nutrition studies
16	FINAL EXAM	none

Recommended Sources

Textbook	Lippincott’s Illustrated reviews serisi, P.C.Champe-R.A Harvey,1997
Additional Resources	Nutrition, Prof.Dr.Ayşe Baysal, 2002

Material Sharing

Documents	book chapters, related documents,
Assignments
Exams

Assessment

IN-TERM STUDIES	NUMBER	PERCENTAGE
Midterm Exam I	1	100
Midterm Exam II
Lab.
Total		100
CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE		60
CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE		40
Total		100

Course’s Contribution to Program

No	Program Learning Outcomes	Contribution
No	Program Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	Being able to educate people on health education				x
2	Being able to gain expertise on main uses of public health		x
3	Knowing basic principles of maternal and child health				x
4	Being able to breed people who have ethics of the Psychological Counselling and Guidance in primary health care		x
5	Being able to gain therapotic ability in some chronical diseases and life style modification		x
6	Guiding the public on the preventive self care .			x
7	Being able to experience on individual and group counselling on preventive medicine	x
8	Realizing the current theories of culture and health Counselling			x
9	learning to adapt to social cultural and psychological components of health	x
10	Being able to instpect frequently seen diseases or outbreaks		x
11	experiencing the interpersonal relationship and health related events		x

ECTS

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	16	2	32
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	16	2	32
Midterm Exams	1	2	2
Lab. Applications
Hours for off-the-Lab. study (Pre-study, practice)
Lab. Midterm Exem
Lab. Final
Homework
Final	1	2	2
Total Work Load			68
Total Work Load / 25 (h)			3.5
ECTS Credit of the Course			3