270084 Nutrition, Growth, and Development

Details
Department of Human Nutrition
Earliest Possible YearMSc. 2 year
DurationOne block
 
Credits7.5 (ECTS)
Course LevelMSc
 
ExaminationFinal Examination

oral examination


All aids allowed

Description of Examination: Oral examination:(presentation based on course reports and questions)

Weight: Oral examination 100%



7-point scale, internal examiner
 
Requirement For Attending ExamApproved course reports
 
Organisation of TeachingLectures and theoretical exercise, group-based project work with written report.
 
Block PlacementBlock 1
Week Structure: B
 
Teaching LanguageEnglish
 
RestrictionsNone
 
Course Contents
The focus of the course is nutrient requirements during different life stages with emphasis on nutritient requirement during the growth phases. From a basic understanding of the role of different organs in the body (nutritional physiology), lectures and practicals will contain topics such as 1) Nutrition and fertility, 2) Nutrition and pregnancy, 3) Nutrition and foetal development, 4) Nutrition and growth (growth phases, infancy, weaning, early childhood, late childhood and adolescence). For each life stage, the students can select specific relevant organs or tissues to study their acute or more long term responses to suboptimal nutrition.

This course can with advantage be taken together with the course "International Nutrition and Health" 270083.
 
Teaching And Learning Methods
The course is based on topics with coherent blocks of lectures and group practicals containing a survey of existing literature and a written report part for each of the chosen topics. These report parts will be connected by the end of the course and will constitute the final course report. This report will be used as background for the oral examination of each individual student.
 
Learning Outcome
The main objective of the course is to give the student an understanding of the relation between nutrition, growth, development and health from conception to adolescence.

After completing the course the students should be able to:

Knowledge:
- Describe basic principles for growth and development in different life stages
- Describe relations between nutrients and growth and development
- Define methods to assess nutrition status in different life stages
- Mention nutritional requirements in different life stages
- Refer to nutrient related diseases in different life stages
- Refer to theories about early nutrition/growth and later diseases


Skills:
- Explain the mechanism behind relations between nutrients, growth and development
- Choose correct methods to evaluate nutritional status in different life stages
- Assess the rationale for nutritional requirements and recommendations in different life stages
- Explain relation between nutrition and specific nutrient related diseases
- Manage simple methods like growth charts for evaluation of growth

Competences:
- Discuss the principles for calculation of nutrient requirements in different life stages
- Make recommendations to prevent nutrient related diseases
- Assess and explain theories about early nutrition/growth and later diseases

 
Course Litterature
Nutrition through the life cycle. 3rd. ed. Judith E. Brown et al. 2007. Thomson Wadsworth, USA (last edition) and other selected papers.
 
Course Coordinator
Christian Mølgaard, cm@life.ku.dk, Department of Human Nutrition/Paediatric Nutrition and International Nutrition, Phone: 35332516
Kim Fleischer Michaelsen, kfm@life.ku.dk, Department of Human Nutrition/Paediatric Nutrition and International Nutrition, Phone: 35332495
 
Study Board
Study Committee LSN
 
Course Scope
lectures32
theoretical exercises32
preparation71
project work62
examination10

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