| Responsible Department | Department of Human Nutrition | ||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Level of Course | MSc | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination oral examination Some Aid allowed Only course report with notes Description of Examination: Oral examination: Presentation based on course reports and curriculum questions. Weight: Oral examination 100% 7-point scale, internal examiner | ||||||||||||||
| Requirement for Attending Exam | Approved course reports | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures and theoretical exercise, group-based project work with written report. | ||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 1 Week Structure: B | ||||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | None | ||||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||||
| The focus of the course is nutrient requirements during different life stages with emphasis on nutrient requirement during the growth phases. Lectures and practicals will contain topics such as 1) Nutrition and pregnancy, 2) Nutrition and foetal development, 3) Nutrition and growth (growth phases: infancy, weaning, early childhood, late childhood and adolescence). 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 reports including one on a self-selected topic. These reports 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 | |||||||||||||||
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| A compendium will be for sale at the start of the course. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Christian Mølgaard, cm@life.ku.dk, Department of Human Nutrition/Paediatric Nutrition and International Nutrition, Phone: 353-32516 | |||||||||||||||
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