Food Science & Technology: Courses & Careers: Courses: FOOD3440/3577 Advanced Nutrition/Advanced and Applied Nutrition

FOOD3440/3577 Advanced Nutrition

Session 2, 2006

Academic staff
Outline
Objectives
Requisite knowledge and relationship to other courses
Target students and career prospects
Structure
Assessment
Texts and reference materials
Lecture and Laboratory Program
Details of Assessment Tasks

Course Administration
Academic Misconduct (Plagiarism)

Academic staff

Name	Location	Phone	Fax	Email
Dr J. Arcot	Room 706 Applied Science Building	9385 5360	9385 5966	j.arcot@unsw.edu.au
Adjunct Prof. Heather Greenfield				heatherg@mail.vetsci.usyd.edu.au

Dr Arcot is the primary contact in relation to the course.

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Outline

This course consists of lecture and discussion sessions that build on the basic concepts of nutrition with respect to food supply, giving advanced treatment of the following topics. Food and Nutrition Policy: structure of the population. Food supplies, food consumption, nutritional epidemiology. Population dietary references. Food programs such as food fortification, supplementary feeding schemes, nutritional rehabilitation, nutrition education, dietary and nutrition interventions (ORT, family planning, infection control, growth monitoring). Principles practice and evaluation of applied nutrition programs, design and evaluation of nutritional epidemiology studies, food intake studies.

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Objectives

On satisfactory completion of this course, students should have:

an in-depth knowledge of various aspects of community and applied nutrition.
gained experience in analyzing data pertaining to community nutrition issues and will be in a position to plan, execute and evaluate programs.

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Requisite knowledge and relationship to other courses

Students should have a good knowledge of nutrition and are expected to have completed a basic nutrition course.

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Target students and career prospects

The following students will find the course of great value: undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of Food Science and Technology, Public Health and Medicine and other Science students ( Health and Exercise program students) who wish to pursue a career in community nutrition or do a higher degree in Dietetics.

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Structure

The course consists of:

2-3 hours/week lectures, Friday (10am -12 midday) as indicated in the timetable in CE101,

4 hours/week reading sessions/workshop/seminar preparation.

Assessment

Item	Weighting
Seminar presentation	60%
Progress exam	20%
Tutorial	20%

To pass the course the students must obtain a pass mark (50%) in each of the assessment tasks (progress examination, tutorial and final seminar presentation).

Details of Assessment Tasks

The progress examination will consist of short answer questions testing the understanding of the lecture material. The examination date is given in the lecture schedule (below) and will be announced in class 2 weeks in advance.

The final assessment will consist of a workshop/seminar presentation. The entire class will be divided into groups of 5 students to discuss the nutritional problem given by week 2. Students are expected to come up with strategies to tackle the problem. Students are expected to collect information from all sources available (some pointers will be given). Based on information obtained, students will be asked to divide information between them and present it to the whole class in the last week of the session. More details on the expectations for this seminar will be given to students during the first two weeks of the session.
Criteria for evaluation will be handed out to students during the session.

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Texts and reference materials

Subject Reference Text

Relevant reference books are:

Fidanza, F. 1991. Nutritional Status Assessment. A manual for population studies. 1^st Edition, Chapman and Hall.
Gibson, RS. 1993. Nutritional Assessment. A laboratory manual. Oxford University Press.
Lee, RD and Nieman, DC. 1993. Nutritional Assessment. Brown and Benchmark Publishers.
Lohman, TG, Roche, AF, Martorell, R (1988). Anthropometric standardization reference manual, Human Kinetics Books.

Michael J. Gibney, Lenore Arab and Barrie Margetts (2004) Public Health Nutrition
The Nutrition Society Textbook. Blackwell Publishing, UK.

Research or review articles, selected from a range of journals and books dealing with or covering Nutrition will be mentioned at specific lectures. It is suggested that students consult these articles if aiming for higher grades.

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Lecture and Laboratory Program

The actual program is listed below.

Most of the lectures will be given by Dr J. Arcot (JA) and some of the lectures will be given by Adjunct Professor Heather Greenfield (HG).

Lectures will be on Fridays 10am - midday, except where specified as 9am - midday.

Students are expected to work on their end of session seminar at other times. No formal allocation of time has been made for this. A report on activity completed in relation to the seminar will have to be submitted every week to the course authority.

Date	Lecturer/s	Lecture topic/s
28 Jul	JA	Introduction, Nutritional assessment methods
4 Aug	JA	Advanced assessment methods in nutrition (9-midday)
11 Aug	HG	Food and Nutrition policy
18 Aug	HG	Food supplies and consumption. Food balance sheets
25 Aug	HG	Nutritional epidemiology
1 Sep	JA	Food to nutrient conversions. Nutrition information systems and data quality requirements
8 Sep	HG	Population dietary references. Use and misuse of dietary recommendations to evaluate intake; Nutrition surveillance and monitoring
15 Sep	JA	Approaches/strategies to reduce malnutrition (JA). Food fortification, Nutrition education
22 Sep	JA	(Progress examination - 9-10am). Principles, practice and evaluation of applied nutrition programs. Food programs. Nutritional rehabilitation (10-midday)
MID-SESSION BREAK
6 Oct	JA, HG	Case study tutorial
13 Oct	JA	Supplementary feeding programs
20 Oct	JA	Dietary and nutrition intervention
27 Oct	JA, HG	Seminars (9am - midday)
2 Nov	JA, HG	Seminars (9am - midday)

Course administration

Attendance and absence

The School policies on attendance at classes and absence from or failure to submit assessment tasks reflect the policies provided in the UNSW Student Guide 2006. Students who fail to attend at least 80% of classes may be refused permission to sit for examinations or other forms of assessment. Consideration of non-attendance at classes and/or non-completion of assessment tasks will be given to students who experience genuine and properly documented cases of hardship, such as recent bereavement or serious illness. For more information on special considerations please look up the school website: http://www.ceic.unsw.edu.au/forms/speccon.pdf

Submission of assignments

Assignments must be submitted by the due date, unless another date is negotiated with the academic coordinator of the course. Assignments should be submitted with a completed assignment cover sheet, available from the Homepage of this Food Science and Technology website [LINK], and placed into the relevant assignment box in corridor outside of room 317 in Applied Science Building.

Academic Honesty and Plagiarism

Plagiarism policy

Plagiarism is the presentation of the thoughts or work of another as one's own.*

Examples include:

direct duplication of the thoughts or work of another, including by copying material, ideas or concepts from a book, article, report or other written document (whether published or unpublished), composition, artwork, design, drawing, circuitry, computer program or software, web site, Internet, other electronic resource, or another person's assignment without appropriate acknowledgement;
paraphrasing another person's work with very minor changes keeping the meaning, form and/or progression of ideas of the original;
piecing together sections of the work of others into a new whole;
presenting an assessment item as independent work when it has been produced in whole or part in collusion with other people, for example, another student or a tutor; and,
claiming credit for a proportion a work contributed to a group assessment item that is greater than that actually contributed. **

Submitting an assessment item that has already been submitted for academic credit elsewhere may also be considered plagiarism. Knowingly permitting your work to be copied by another student may also be considered to be plagiarism. An assessment item produced in oral, not written form, or involving live presentation, may similarly contain plagiarised material.

The inclusion of the thoughts or work of another with attribution appropriate to the academic discipline does not amount to plagiarism.

Students are reminded of their Rights and Responsibilities in respect of plagiarism, as set out in the University Undergraduate and Postgraduate Handbooks, and are encouraged to seek advice from academic staff whenever necessary to ensure they avoid plagiarism in all its forms.

The Learning Centre website is the central University online resource for staff and student information on plagiarism and academic honesty. It can be located at:

www.lc.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism

The Learning Centre also provides substantial educational written materials, workshops, and tutorials to aid students, for example, in:

correct referencing practices;
paraphrasing, summarising, essay writing, and time management;
appropriate use of, and attribution for, a range of materials including text, images, formulae and concepts.

Individual assistance is available on request from The Learning Centre.

Students are also reminded that careful time management is an important part of study and one of the identified causes of plagiarism is poor time management. Students should allow sufficient time for research, drafting, and the proper referencing of sources in preparing all assessment items.

* Based on that proposed to the University of Newcastle by the St James Ethics Centre. Used with kind permission from the University of Newcastle.

** Adapted with kind permission from the University of Melbourne.

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