GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

BIOCHEMICAL MECHANISM OF OBESITY/TBY-6480

Course Title:	BIOCHEMICAL MECHANISM OF OBESITY
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

Define obesity.
Define BMI.
Explain the relation between obesity and illness.
Explain the metabolism of hunger and feeding state.

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face

--WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week	What is obesity
2. Week	BMI
3. Week	Brain and nutrition
4. Week	Feeding and starvation hormones
5. Week	Healty nutrition
6. Week	Obesity and disease
7. Week	Protein and nutrition
8. Week	Fiber
9. Week	healty fats
10. Week	Alkaline diet
11. Week	Exercise and diet
12. Week	Vitamins and functon
13. Week	Insulin rezistance
14. Week	Water metabolism
15. Week	Corbohydrates
16. Week	Summary

-- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS

-- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

	Quantity	Total Weighting (%)
Midterm Exams	0	50
Assignment	0	0
Application	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0

Percent of In-term Studies		50
Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score		50

-- WORKLOAD

Activity	Total Number of Weeks	Duration (weekly hour)	Total Period Work Load
Weekly Theoretical Course Hours	16	2	32
Weekly Tutorial Hours			0
Reading Tasks	16	1	16
Searching in Internet and Library	4	2	8
Material Design and Implementation			0
Report Preparing	2	2	4
Preparing a Presentation	2	2	4
Presentation	2	2	4
Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam			0
Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam	4	2	8
Other (should be emphasized)			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			76
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			3.04
Course Credit (ECTS):			3

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

-- 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)

Gazi University