| Institut for Human Ernæring | |||||||||||||||
| English title | Nutrition, Growth, and Development | ||||||||||||||
| Tidligst mulig placering | Kandidat 2. år | ||||||||||||||
| Varighed | En blok | ||||||||||||||
| Pointværdi | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Kursustype | Kandidatkursus | ||||||||||||||
| Eksamen | Sluteksamen mundtlig eksamen Alle hjælpemidler tilladt Beskrivelse af eksamen: Oral examination:(presentation based on course reports and questions) Vægtning: Oral examination 100% 7-trinsskala, intern censur | ||||||||||||||
| Forudsætninger for indstilling til eksamen | Approved course reports | ||||||||||||||
| Rammer for undervisning | Lectures and theoretical exercise, group-based project work with written report. | ||||||||||||||
| Blokplacering | Block 1 Ugestruktur: B | ||||||||||||||
| Undervisningssprog | Engelsk | ||||||||||||||
| Begrænset deltagerantal | None | ||||||||||||||
| Kursusindhold | |||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Undervisningsform | |||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Målbeskrivelse | |||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||
| Litteraturhenvisninger | |||||||||||||||
| Nutrition through the life cycle. 3rd. ed. Judith E. Brown et al. 2007. Thomson Wadsworth, USA (last edition) and other selected papers. | |||||||||||||||
| Kursusansvarlig | |||||||||||||||
| Christian Mølgaard, cm@life.ku.dk, Institut for Human Ernæring/Børneernæring og International Ernærin, Tlf: 35332516 Kim Fleischer Michaelsen, kfm@life.ku.dk, Institut for Human Ernæring/Børneernæring og International Ernærin, Tlf: 35332495 | |||||||||||||||
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