Iğdır University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
GIM-23-101	NUTRITIONAL BIOCHEMISTRY	Elective	1	2	6

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle

Objectives of the Course

Educate students to apply knowledge on the relationships between diet and human metabolism to food systems. Educate students to develop an understanding on the principles to prevent diet associated health problems,

Name of Lecturer(s)

Dr.Ögr.Üyesi Elif Duygu KAYA

Learning Outcomes

1	Students who achieve this course will gain knowledge, skills, and proficiency in the followings; Demonstrate an extensive knowledge on nutritional biochemistry and classification of biological structures.
2	Develop knowledge on vitamins, minerals, trace elements, and inorganic nutrients.
3	Develop knowledge on digestion and absorption as well as nutrients that resist digestion, and energy intake and expenditure, & regulation of energy metabolism.
4	Develop knowledge on efffect of nutrition on cancer and cardiovascular diseases .
5	Demonstrate an ability to critically review research papers in the area of nutritional biochemistry.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

none

Recommended Optional Programme Components

none

Course Contents

Educate students to demonstrate a basic knowledge on the effect of nutrition on health with a special emphasis on biochemical reactions and mechanisms in metabolism,

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Overview of nutritional biochemistry, classification of biological structures	none	none
2	Digestion and absorption, nutrients that resist digestion	none	none
3	Energy intake and expenditure, regulation of energy metabolism	none	none
4	Vitamin, mineral and trace element metabolism, functions, requirements, sources, absorption, and toxicity	none	none
5	Nutrition and cardiovascular diseases	none	none
6	Inorganic nutrients	none	none
7	Effects of nutritional styles on cancer	none	none
8	Nutritional in major metabolic disorders and regulatory diets (osteoporosis, diabetes, rheumatism, renal, gastrointestinal, liver diseases).	none	none
9	Inborn errors of metabolism	none	none
10	Carbohydrate metabolism	none	none
11	Lipit metabolism	none	none
12	Protein metabolism	None	None
13	Nutritional principles for different age, sex, and occupation groups, infection and the immune system	None	None
14	Open discussion on topics selected by students	none	none

Recommended or Required Reading

Keha, E.,Küfrevioğulları Ö.İ., Biyokimya, Aktif Yayınevi, İstanbul. Lehninger Biyokimya Palme Yayıncılık, Ankara Yildiz F. 2010. Advances in foodbiochemistry, Boca Raton : CRCPress

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		50
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		50
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

none

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	2	2
Attending Lectures	14	3	42
Self Study	14	5	70
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	20	20
Individual Study for Final Examination	14	1	14
Reading	14	2	28
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			177

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7	PO 8	PO 9	PO 10	PO 11	PO 12	PO 13	PO 14	PO 15	PO 16
LO1	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	2	3	3	4	4
LO2	2	3	3	4	3	2	3	2	3	3	2	2	3	3	4	2
LO3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	2	3	4	4	4
LO4	3	1	2	3	3	2	2	3	3	2	3	3	2	3	2	4
LO5	3	3	3	3	3	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	4

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High