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Course Syllabus

Revision Date: 21-Aug-24

Fall 2024 | BIO-1030-VJ01 - Introduction to Nutrition

In Person Class

Standard courses meet in person at CCV centers, typically once each week for the duration of the semester.

Location: Upper Valley
Credits: 3 (45 hours)
Day/Times: Tuesday, 11:45A - 02:30P
Semester Dates: 09-03-2024 to 12-10-2024
Last day to drop without a grade: 09-16-2024 - Refund Policy
Last day to withdraw (W grade): 11-04-2024 - Refund Policy
This course has started, please contact the offering academic center about registration

Faculty

Alison Despathy
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Hiring Coordinator for this course: Danielle Lafleur Brooks

General Education Requirements

This section meets the following CCV General Education Requirement(s) for the current catalog year:

VSCS Natural Science

Note

Many degree programs have specific general education recommendations. In order to avoid taking unnecessary classes, please consult with additional resources like your program evaluation, your academic program catalog year page, and your academic advisor.

Courses may only be used to meet one General Education Requirement.

Course Description

This course introduces students to the physiological basis of nutrition and evaluates dietary requirements. Emphasis is placed on metabolism, digestion, and nutrients used in the human body and the nutrition involved in health, disease, and aging.

Essential Objectives

1. Utilize the scientific method to distinguish between well-researched evidence on nutrition and some of the basic fallacies and myths in this field.
2. Discuss how Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are established and how they compare for individuals based on nutrition, disease, and aging.
3. Outline dietary strategies now recommended to minimize the risks of disease and describe the nutritional and caloric needs of individuals throughout the lifecycle.
4. Describe the digestion and absorption of carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids with an emphasis on organs, hormones, and enzymes.
5. Evaluate and discuss the biological role of vitamins and minerals in maintaining homeostasis.
6. Analyze how carbohydrates, fats, and proteins are broken down to harvest energy and describe the conditions by which each of these molecules is metabolized.
7. Examine, record, and evaluate diets for nutritional and caloric adequacy and safety.
8. Demonstrate proficiency in understanding, interpreting, evaluating and applying quantitative data and information.
9. Explain how knowledge created in the natural sciences has contributed to the creation, maintenance and dismantling of social inequalities and discuss the impacts of diversity and inclusion on scientific research and practice.

Required Technology

More information on general computer and internet recommendations is available on the CCV IT Support page. https://support.ccv.edu/general/computer-recommendations/

Please see CCV's Digital Equity Statement (pg. 45) to learn more about CCV's commitment to supporting all students access the technology they need to successfully finish their courses.

Required Textbooks and Resources

This course uses one or more textbooks/books/simulations.

Fall 2024 textbook details will be available on 2024-05-20. On that date a link will be available below that will take you to eCampus, CCV's bookstore. The information provided there will be specific to this class. Please see this page for more information regarding the purchase of textbooks/books.

BIO-1030-VJ01 Link to Textbooks for this course in eCampus.

The last day to use a Financial Aid Advance to purchase textbooks/books is the 3rd Tuesday of the semester. See your financial aid counselor at your academic center if you have any questions.

Methods

METHODS AND CONTENT:

This course will incorporate a variety of teaching styles, ranging from seminar-style and traditional lecture to class projects and presentations and discussions on video clips and other topics. Students are expected to complete reading assignments on time so that both an understanding of the material being presented and discussed as well as class participation is possible. Late assignments will be penalized.

In this class, your engaging, well-researched, meaningful participation through discussion board posts and responses, assignments, and projects is not only part of your attendance in the course but is also part of your grade. In order for our class to be successful and reach its full potential, we need to ensure that everyone is taking the time and putting their best efforts into our ongoing class conversation. This will include your timely response to discussion board prompts which will often include initial response as well as your interaction with and responses to other students’ posts. In order for this to happen effectively, I am requesting and expecting that your work will reflect meaningful thought, critical thinking skills, solid attempts at answering the questions presented as well as useful, appropriate and thorough responses to other students when required. Not only will this help facilitate greater learning and a deeper understanding of the material for everyone, it will also allow all of us to hold effective conversations together as we work through the information or topic at hand and also learn from each other. Each assignment will vary with regards to length requirements and due dates and these will both be clearly visible in the original assignment post. Please be sure to tune into due dates and length requirements.

Evaluation Criteria

CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING THE FINAL GRADE:

20% Assignments/Participation/Attendance

20% Projects- Nutrition Research Project and Presentation

20% Individual Dietary Analysis/Nutritional Assessment

40% Exams (6 non-cumulative exams)

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100%

Grading Criteria

CCV Letter Grades as outlined in the Evaluation System Policy are assigned according to the following chart:

High Low

A+ 100 98

A Less than 98 93

A- Less than 93 90

B+ Less than 90 88

B Less than 88 83

B- Less than 83 80

C+ Less than 80 78

C Less than 78 73

C- Less than 73 70

D+ Less than 70 68

D Less than 68 63

D- Less than 63 60

F Less than 60

P 100 60

NP Less than 60 0

Weekly Schedule

Week/Module	Topic		Readings		Assignments

1	Weekly Syllabus Introduction to Nutrition Weekly Syllabus- Class Dates and Topics NOTE- The following is a a weekly syllabus of class dates and weekly topics. Within each week's modules, there are notes and textbook reading to review, assignments and discussion board posts. In some modules, there are exams and videos also. The due dates and details are included in each of the weekly modules. As usual, keep me posted with any questions at any point along the way. CONTACT- H-802-748-1487 C-802-424-5310 Email-awd03090@ccv.vsc.edu alison.despathy@gmail.com Week 1-Chapters 1-2 Basic Nutrition Concepts -Nutrition Defined -Nutrition & Health -The Role of Nutrition -Introduction to Food Labels Week 2- -Chapters 1-2 – Nutrition Attitudes and Guidelines/Food Quality -Attitudes and Behaviors- -Food Guide Pyramids –A Comparison -RDA’s, DRI’s, etc. -Standards and Guidelines. -Food Quality Introduction Week 3- -Chapter 3- Digestive System-structure and function Choose a research topic- -Details for Nutrition Research Paper in Week 3 Module and Projects Module - Anatomy of Digestion - Digestion and Absorption - The Role of Probiotics Week 4- -Chapter 4- Carbohydrates -Carbohydrates- Sugars, Starch, and Fiber -Diabetes and Insulin Resistance -Ketogenic Diet, Paleo Diet and Intermittent Fasting Week 5- –Chapter 5- Lipids Outline & reference page for research paper/projects are due.- Submit in Week 5 module -Lipids: Fats, Oils, Phospholipids, and Sterols -Nutrition and Heart Disease Week 6-Chapter 6- Proteins -Proteins and Amino acids -Vegetarian and Vegan Diets -Genetically Modified Food- A historical perspective Week 7-Meal Planning and Food Labels -Creating Meal Plans -Reading Food labels -Label project Week 8–Chapter 9- Determining Total Metabolic Rate -Food, Energy, and Energy Balance -Calculating TMR, BMR, physical activity & dietary thermogenesis - Body Weight- Weight Control and Dieting- Myths and Realities - Obesity Week 9- -Research Projects due- Papers/ Online Presentations Due. Week 10-Chapter 9 Review, Introduction to Dietary Analysis Project -Introduction to Dietary Analysis Project -Determining Personal TMR values -Calculating energy nutrient personal intake goals Week 11-Chapter 7-Vitamins -Vitamins: Fat-soluble and Water-soluble -Phytochemicals -Diet and Cancer Week 12-Chapters 8- Minerals and Water -Minerals- Major and Trace Minerals -Water- The many functions of water-soluble -Quality of Water -Supplements Week 13 -Chapters 13-14-Nutrition Through the Lifespan – Part 1 -Nutrition during Pregnancy, Breastfeeding, and Infancy -Nutrition during childhood and adolescence -Nutrition and Aging Week 14- -Chapters 13-14-Nutrition Through the Lifespan – Part 2 -Nutrition during Pregnancy, Breastfeeding, and Infancy -Nutrition during childhood and adolescence -Nutrition and Aging Week 15- Last Week of Class- Dietary Analysis Projects Due Final Wrap Class Wrap Discussion

Attendance Policy

Regular attendance and participation in classes are essential for success in and are completion requirements for courses at CCV. A student's failure to meet attendance requirements as specified in course descriptions will normally result in a non-satisfactory grade.

In general, missing more than 20% of a course due to absences, lateness or early departures may jeopardize a student's ability to earn a satisfactory final grade.
Attending an on-ground or synchronous course means a student appeared in the live classroom for at least a meaningful portion of a given class meeting. Attending an online course means a student posted a discussion forum response, completed a quiz or attempted some other academically required activity. Simply viewing a course item or module does not count as attendance.
Meeting the minimum attendance requirement for a course does not mean a student has satisfied the academic requirements for participation, which require students to go above and beyond simply attending a portion of the class. Faculty members will individually determine what constitutes participation in each course they teach and explain in their course descriptions how participation factors into a student's final grade.

Participation Expectations

Participation Policy

In this class, your engaging, well-researched, meaningful participation through discussion board posts and responses, assignments, and projects is not only part of your attendance in the course but is also part of your grade. In order for our class to be successful and reach its full potential, we need to ensure that everyone is taking the time and putting their best efforts into our ongoing class conversation. This will include your timely response to discussion board prompts which will often include initial response as well as your interaction with and responses to other students’ posts. In order for this to happen effectively, I am requesting and expecting that your work will reflect meaningful thought, critical thinking skills, solid attempts at answering the questions presented as well as useful, appropriate and thorough responses to other students when required. Not only will this help facilitate greater learning and a deeper understanding of the material for everyone, it will also allow all of us to hold effective conversations together as we work through the information or topic at hand and also learn from each other. Each assignment will vary with regards to length requirements and due dates and these will both be clearly visible in the original assignment post. Please be sure to tune into due dates and length requirements.

Missing & Late Work Policy

Late Policy-

It will be critical for everyone to stay on top of their work and timing. All of our work is inter-related and builds on our initial foundation that will be created in the first several weeks. In order for this to flow and make the most sense and offer the most benefit for each of you, work done in a timely manner will be vital so that we can all move through the class together. With that in mind, late work will be penalized by a 5% decrease in grade for every late day. I do recognize that there are submission issues than can happen and situations that can present themselves in life that may interfere with timing and schoolwork. These situations will be taken on a case by case basis. I hope that everyone has a smooth, healthy, safe semester but if situations present themselves, please feel free to contact me so we can figure out a game plan to help you get back on track and successfully complete the course.

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