GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
BIOCHEMISTRY OF NUTRITION/BYO-2100
Course Title: BIOCHEMISTRY OF NUTRITION
Credits 2 ECTS 3
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Express nutrients.
Explain the recovery and utilization of energy.
Express balanced nutrition, vitamins and minerals.
Define the nutritional disorders: obesity.
Define the eating disorders: bulimia and anorexia.
Express types of nutrition: oral, parenteral.
Explain nutrition in childhood and elderly subjects.
Express nutrition in hypertensive patients.
Express nutrition in diabetic patients.
Express nutrition in pregnancy.

 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  What is nutrition? Nutrients
2. Week  Recovery and utilization of energy
3. Week  Recovery and utilization of energy
4. Week  Balanced nutrition, vitamins and minerals
5. Week  Balanced nutrition, vitamins and minerals
6. Week  Nutritional disorders: obesity
7. Week  Eating disorders: bulimia and anorexia
8. Week  Types of nutrition: oral, parenteral
9. Week  Relation between obesity and leptin
10. Week  Nutrition in childhood and elderly subjects
11. Week  Nutrition in subjects who exercise
12. Week  Nutrition in hypertensive patients
13. Week  Nutrition in diabetic patients
14. Week  Nutrition in pregnancy
15. Week  Examination
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
40
 Assignment
0
0
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
40
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
2
28
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
0
0
 Reading Tasks
12
2
24
 Searching in Internet and Library
12
1
12
 Material Design and Implementation
0
0
0
 Report Preparing
0
0
0
 Preparing a Presentation
4
1
4
 Presentation
1
2
2
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
1
1
1
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
2
2
4
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
75
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
3
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
3
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1Learn biochemical concepts about cell and tissues.X
2Learn the role in the human metabolism of related course.X
3Learn the relations of course with other concepts.X
4Distinguish biochemical changes in physiological processes in healthy individuals.X
5Learn the biochemical changes observed in disease states.X
6Understand the molecular mechanisms of the human body.X
7Learn the methods of biochemical measurements.X
8Learn how to use the mechanism of related topic in the laboratory.X
9Win evidence-based medicine skills benefiting from the current literature.X
10Gain the skill of preparing and delivering presentations about the determined subject.X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Prof.Dr. Neslihan BUKAN)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/nbukan)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (nbukan@gazi.edu.tr , nbukan@yahoo.com)