| Department of Human Nutrition | |||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year to MSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination oral examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: Equal part report and oral exam (presentation and questions) Weight: 50/50 13-point scale, internal examiner | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures and theoretical exercise, group-based project work with written report | ||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 4a Week Structure: Outside schedule | ||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||
| Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||||
| Basic research: To know and understand basic principles for growth and degeneration. Know and evaluate the role of nutrients in growth and degeneration. Know and understand nutrient-disease relationships in different life stages. Applied research: Know and understand the methods to assess nutrient status in different life stages. Usage of the principles for calculation of nutrient requirements in different life stages. To know how animal models can be used to study nutrient requirements in humans during different life states. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||
| To gain knowledge and understanding of the role of nutrition in growth and degeneration processes, from conception to old age. To get a basic understanding that enables the student to understand and evaluate specific nutrient-related problems during growth and degeneration. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||
| The focus of the course is nutrient requirements during different life stages with emphasis on nutritient requirement during the growth phase. 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 fetal development, 4)Nutrition and growth (growth phase, early childhood, late childhood and weaning), 5)Nutrition and degeneration (degenerative processes, nutrition in the elderly). 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. One of these tissues will be the skeleton with emphasis on the role of nutrition for bone growth, later demineralization and thus, risk of osteoporisis. The course will provide a basic understanding of the use of animalmodels in human nutrition research. | |||||||||||||||
| 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 topics. These report parts will be connected by the end of the course and will constitute the final course report. This report will together with an oral presentation, form the background for evaluation of each individual student. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||
| Nutrition through the life cycle.2d.ed. Judith E. Brown et al. 2005 Thomson Wadsworth, USA. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Christian Mølgaard, cm@life.ku.dk, Department of Human Nutrition/Paediatric Nutrition and International Nutrition, Phone: 35332516 Per Torp Sangild, psa@life.ku.dk, Department of Human Nutrition/Clinical Nutrition, Phone: 35332698 | |||||||||||||||
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| Study Committee LSN | |||||||||||||||
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