ECTS - Community Nutrition
Community Nutrition (NUT308) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Community Nutrition | NUT308 | 6. Semester | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | Compulsory Departmental Courses |
| Course Level | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer, Problem Solving, Brain Storming. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | To teach Community nutrition, nutritional epidemiology and assessment methods of nutritional status and develop knowledge and skills for using these methods in the assessment of nutritional status of patients and healthy people or the community. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Community nutrition, community health dietitian and nutritional epidemiology, assessment of nutritional status, nutritional anthropometry, clinical signs, biochemical and biophysical methods, dietary intake surveys, health statistics; age specific mortality and morbidity rates, nutrition screening tools. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | Community Nutrition and Nutritional Epidemiology | S1: Chapter 1- Introduction - S2: Chapter 1-Overview of Nutritional Epidemiology |
| 2 | Nutritional Assessment Methods: Anthropometric Measurements in Adults | S1: Chapter 9- Introduction to Anthropometry - S1: Chapter 10- Body Size - S2: Chapter 9- Anthropometric Measurements and Body Composition |
| 3 | Practice 1: Anthropometric Measurements | S1: Chapter 9- Introduction to Anthropometry - S1: Chapter 10- Body Size - S2: Chapter 9- Anthropometric Measurements and Body Composition |
| 4 | Body Composition | S1: Chapter 11- Body Composition - S1: Chapter 14- Body Composition: Laboratory Methods |
| 5 | Nutritional Assessment Methods: Biochemical and Biophysical Findings | S2: Chapter 8- Biochemical Indicators of Dietary Intake |
| 6 | Nutritional Assessment Methods: Clinical Symptoms | S3: Pages 67-142 |
| 7 | Nutritional Assessment Methods: Dietary Assessment Methods | S1: Chapter 3- Food Consumption of Individuals - S2-Chapter 4- 24-Hour Recall and Diet Record Methods |
| 8 | Midterm Exam | - |
| 9 | Practice 2: Dietary Assessment and Evaluation | S1: Chapter 3- Food Consumption of Individuals - S2: Chapter 4- 24-Hour Recall and Diet Record Methods |
| 10 | Nutrition Screening Tools | S2: Page 67-142 |
| 11 | Assessment of Energy Expenditure and Physical Activity Status | S2: Chapter 10- Assessment of Physical Activity in Nutritional Epidemiology - Hills AP, Mokhtar N, Byrne NM. Assessment of physical activity and energy expenditure: an overview of objective measures. Front Nutr. 2014 Jun 16;1:5. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2014.00005. |
| 12 | Food-Based Dietary Guidelines & Assessing Diet Quality | S1: Chapter 8- Dietary Guidelines & Assessing Diet Quality |
| 13 | Developing Questionnaires and Writing a Report | Boynton P M, Greenhalgh T. Selecting, designing, and developing your questionnaire BMJ 2004; 328 :1312 doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7451.1312 |
| 14 | Project Presentation | - |
| 15 | General Discussion | - |
| 16 | Final Exam | - |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. Gibson RS. Principles of Nutritional Assessment. Oxford University Press, New York, 3rd Ed, 2005. |
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| 2. Willett W (1998). Nutritional Epidemiology. Oxford University Press. NewYork, 2nd Ed. | |
| 3. Baysal, A., Aksoy, M., Besler, H T, Bozkurt, N., Keçecioğlu, Kutluay Merdol, T., Pekcan, G., Mercanlıgil, S M, Yıldız E, Diyet El Kitabı, 5. Baskı, Hatiboğlu Yayınevi, Ankara, 2008 | |
| Other Sources | 4. Hills AP, Mokhtar N, Byrne NM. Assessment of physical activity and energy expenditure: an overview of objective measures. Front Nutr. 2014 Jun 16;1:5. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2014.00005. |
| 5. Boynton P M, Greenhalgh T. Selecting, designing, and developing your questionnaire BMJ 2004; 328 :1312 doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7451.1312 | |
| 6. Lohmann TG, Roche AF, Martorell R. Anthropometric Standardization Reference Manual, Human Kinetics Books, Champaign, 1988. |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | - | - |
| Laboratory | 2 | 20 |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | 2 | 5 |
| Homework Assignments | - | - |
| Presentation | 1 | 10 |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 35 |
| Toplam | 7 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | 65 |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 35 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | X |
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| Major Area Courses | |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Acquires and applies theoretical and practical knowledge based on current literature in the field of Nutrition and Dietetics. | |||||
| 2 | Identifies and analyzes nutritional problems at the individual and societal levels and produces evidence-based solutions. | X | ||||
| 3 | Collects, analyzes, interprets, and reports data in scientific research; gains the ability to work in national/international, disciplinary, and multidisciplinary teams. | X | ||||
| 4 | Plans, implements, and develops policies for appropriate nutrition interventions and education, taking into account the age, gender, socio-cultural, economic, and health status of individuals and communities. | X | ||||
| 5 | Effectively uses field-specific technological equipment and information technologies. | X | ||||
| 6 | Acquires the ability to communicate in writing and orally in Turkish and a second foreign language on topics related to the field of Nutrition and Dietetics. | X | ||||
| 7 | Acquires the ability for lifelong learning, access to scientifically proven information, and continuous self-renewal during and after education. | X | ||||
| 8 | Acts with professional ethics and a sense of responsibility, demonstrating awareness of the universal and societal impacts of the dietitian profession and its legal consequences. | X | ||||
| 9 | - | |||||
| 10 | - | |||||
| 11 | - | |||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Total Workload | 100 | ||