Fall 2010 Syllabus

Office Hours (Build. 4 Room 229): Monday & Wednesday 1:00-2:00, or by appointment.

Required Materials: Text- Nutrition Concepts & Controversies, Sizer & Whitney, 11^th OR 10^th edition; Class Packet (double check you have the packet for Powell-Campus)

Nutrition is a study of how the body takes in and uses the nutrients from food. Food sources, functions, and requirements of the following are discussed: carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and water. In addition, digestion, absorption and metabolism of all nutrients are covered. Skills are developed for improving personal eating habits and for evaluating nutrition information in the mass media.

1. Understand our place in the grand scheme of life and make eating decisions to sustain health for themselves and our earth. This requires knowing what:

c. A human body needs to do to that nutrient before it gets into our bloodstream

2. Begin to apply scientific reasoning to evaluate the validity of nutrition information in the media.

3. Evaluate dietary intakes using the Recommended Dietary Allowances, the Food Guide Pyramid, and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and understand the limitations of their use.

4. Recognize that nutrition is only one factor—along with exercise, freedom from excessive stress, and rest—in staying healthy.

5. Be open-minded and see several sides of a nutrition issue, like vegetarianism.

6. See connections between this class and others you might be taking or have taken.

The attendance and participation of every student is important to making this a stimulating and fun class. It also helps improve your grade since exams are based in great part on your lecture notes. I will take attendance each day, although I do not give points for it, you will have in-class assignments that you will receive points for. Attendance is considered if you have a borderline final grade.

We will have 6 in-class assignments throughout the term. You cannot make up these assignments; they are intended to apply the topic of that day’s discussion. Of the 6 in-class assignments, 5 will count towards your grade. If you have completed 6, one will count as extra credit.

Study questions can be found in your class packet. These questions are designed to introduce you to new material, and also have you apply material that we have discussed in class. You will see study questions on the exams. Study questions are to be submitted through moodle, by Sunday at 11:55 p.m. You will be timed so make sure your hardcopy is filled out before going to the computer to submit your answers. Sometime Monday, your answers will be available to review. If you were marked wrong for an answer that was correct, send me a message and I can correct this.

The quiz and surveys will be submitted through moodle. The quiz is an orientation quiz to familiarize yourself with moodle and the syllabus. The surveys include two diet analysis surveys and one class evaluation survey.

The instructions for this project are in your packet. The project includes keeping food records for one day, and analyzing your foods using mypyramid.gov. You will evaluate your nutrient intake using the Dietary Reference Intakes, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Food Guide Pyramid.

This assignment will involve using the nutrition knowledge and skills you have gained from the course to go shopping for products that meet certain nutrition criteria. More information will be given in class.

There will be a total of 4 exams. A 3x5 notecard is allowed for each exam. If an exam is going to be missed for a legitimate emergency, you must contact me before the scheduled exam. If taking an exam late you will NOT be able to use a 3x5 notecard, and 5% of the total points may also be deducted for each class period late.

The Study Question assignments are due on the date specified in your class calendar, typically Sundays at 11:55pm. However, they remain available in moodle until Tuesdays at 11:55pm. After the availability date has ended you can NOT submit work online. No late work is accepted for full credit. If you miss the deadline to submit your study questions you can turn in your hardcopy to me for partial credit. You can do this ONE time. It must be submitted within a week from the due date. Complete assignments early just in case you have computer problems. I deduct the lowest score for everyone, even those who have handed in all of them. In other words, 9 of the 10 ten point assignments actually count toward your grade.

Other assignments can be turned in up to a week late from the due date, but you will only receive 70% of the total possible points.

1. The instructor will treat you with dignity and respect. The reverse is expected.

2. Turn off cell phones, pagers, music or other electronic devices not related to class.

4. Do not work on assignments from this or other classes. Engage in lecture only.

3. Put your Class Packet in a 3-ring binder so that it will be easier for you to find pages when I refer to them.

5. You can work with your fellow students on assignments, but copying answers is cheating and will result in both persons earning a zero on that assignment or exam. I expect that when working with fellow students you will NOT have identical answers.

6. If you have to miss class: ask someone if there were due date changes or other announcements and ask if you may copy their notes. (The instructor will not provide you with the notes).

· If working on assignments with fellow classmates, I expect that you will not have the same exact wording on assignments. If assignments have the same exact wording, both assignments will receive a zero.

· If it is expected that someone is cheating on an exam, they will be given a verbal warning. If cheating continues, the exam will be taken away, a zero will be assigned as a grade, with no chance to make-up the exam.

Grades will be based on exams, study questions, in-class assignments, and a diet analysis project.

A+	99% and above
A	92%-98%
A-	90%-91%
B+	88%-89%
B	82%-87%
B-	80%-81%
C+	78%-79%
C	72%-77%
C-	70%-71%
D	<70%

There are a few opportunities for extra credit. If you complete all 6 in-class assignments one will count toward extra credit, 2 points. There will be 3 online review quizzes that will be given before Exams 1, 2, & 3. These will each count toward 1 point of extra credit. Also, you can earn 2 points of extra credit by presenting a summary of a journal article (details discussed below). This is a total of 7 points. No other extra credit assignments are given or accepted.

For every lecture topic that we discuss throughout the term, numerous articles and research papers have been published. In moodle, many such articles will be listed under, “Related Websites and Articles”. The library subscribes to multiple databases of current research. For 2 extra credit points, find an article related to the topic of the week (article must be approved by instructor) using the library database and simply tell the class in a 5-minute verbal presentation what the article was about and how it relates to the class. Presentation must include the following: 1. title of the article with bibliographic citation, 2. summary of the article (do not just read the article, highlight or “copy” it), and 3.) your analysis, thoughts or opinions of the article as it pertains to what we have learned in the class to date. Prepare written notes or note cards of your presentation and coordinate presentation time with instructor in advance. All presentations must be coordinated for completion PRIOR to the last day of week 9