COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HEALTHY LIFE AND NUTRITION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GNK 3039 HEALTHY LIFE AND NUTRITION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Mathematics Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ADEM ÇELIK

Offered to

Mathematics Teacher Education

Course Objective

Teaching the importance of various chemicals, food, and environmental factors on human health effects

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Use industrial hygiene terminology and its concept
2   Have information about health quality issues and development of writing and oral communication skills
3   Learn and apply the basic concepts of nutrition
4   Define different classes of toxic substances and the ability of examining the their effects on of populations
5   Have information about excretion and exposure of toxins
6   Understand the importance of exercises on human health
7   Understand the importance of environmental factors on human health

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Explaining of the importance about chemicals and human health
2 Principles of industrial hygiene
3 Control of exposuring to chemical and biological factors occupationally
4 Classification of toxic substances; heavy metals, solvents and vapors, radiation and radioacitive substances
5 Classification of toxic substances; pesticides, phenols and phenolic compounds, pland and animal toxins
6 Absorption and distribution, metabolism and excretion of toxins
7 Food hygiene and introduction to its security, importance of food hygiene
8 Midterm Exam
9 Food contamination and its poisoning
10 An overview of nutrition
11 Energy requirement
12 Exercise: Nutrition and Adaptation of the body
13 Nutrition chain of premature, infancy, childhood, youth and adults
14 Prevention of nutrition and disease, Environment and Cancer
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1- V.Mougios, Exercise Biochemistry, Human Kinetics (2006) J.Karlsson, Antioxidants and Exercise, Human Kinetics (1997)
2- C. D. Klaassen, Casarett and Doull s Toxicology. The Basic Science of Poisons , 6th Edition, The Mc Graw-Hill Companies, (2001) J. Timbrell, Introduction to toxicology, 3rd Edition, (2002)
3- N.G Mariott, V.N.Reinhold, Principles of food sanitation, New York,(1989) D. McSuray, R. Linton, Essentials of food safety and sanitation, 2nd edition,(2004) PR Hayes, SJ Forthshe, Food Hygiene, Microbiology and HACCP, Chapmann Hall(1998)
4- Fundamentals of Health at Work, Taylor & Francis, Incorporated 2000

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Brainstorming, Learning with Project assignments, lecture, presentation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 +FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

senol.alpat@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Thursday between 10.00-12.00 hours

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 9 9
Preparing assignments 1 9 9
Preparing presentations 1 9 9
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 62

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18
LO.133
LO.233
LO.333
LO.433
LO.533
LO.6333
LO.7333

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