GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUNDS FOUND IN FOODS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON HEALTH/BDB-4130
Course Title: ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUNDS FOUND IN FOODS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON HEALTH
Credits 2 ECTS 8
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
Endocrine-disrupting compounds recognize and understand
Learning the effects on health of endocrine disrupting compounds
Learn the ways of food contamination with endocrine disrupting compounds
May to consider the endocrine disrupting compounds while planing nutrition treatment
Learning the toxic effects of endocrine disrupting compounds
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Introduction
2. Week  Endocrine disrupting compounds
3. Week  The history of endocrine disrupting compounds
4. Week  Classification of endocrine disrupting compounds
5. Week  Natural endocrine disrupting compounds (phytoestrogens)
6. Week  Synthetic endocrine disrupting compounds (dioxins)
7. Week  Synthetic endocrine-disrupting compounds (BPA)
8. Week  Synthetic endocrine-disrupting compounds (Metals)
9. Week  Midterm Exam
10. Week  Plant growth regulators
11. Week  The effects on the health of the natural endocrine disrupting compounds
12. Week  The effects on the health of the synthetic endocrine disruptors
13. Week  The routes of transmission of endocrine disrupting compounds in food
14. Week  Seminar presentation I
15. Week  Seminar presentation II
16. Week  Final Exam
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
50
 Assignment
2
10
 Application
0
0
 Projects
1
30
 Practice
1
10
 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
14
2
28
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
0
0
 Reading Tasks
14
2
28
 Searching in Internet and Library
14
2
28
 Material Design and Implementation
0
0
0
 Report Preparing
15
2
30
 Preparing a Presentation
15
2
30
 Presentation
2
2
4
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
1
15
15
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
1
25
25
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
188
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.52
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
8
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5X
6X
7X
8X
9X
10X
11X
12X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Assoc. Prof. Yasemin Akdevelioğlu)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (www.websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/ydemirci)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (ydemirci@gazi.edu.tr)