Overview
Who Should Attend
Course Description
Credit Hours
Schedule
Required Texts
Computer Requirements
Instructor
This introductory nutrition course is designed to provide you with a basic
nutrition foundation. The course will present fundamentals in macro and
micro nutrients, digestion, and metabolism. It course will also introduce
you to diet assessment and planning skills, and the wide world of nutrition
discovery and implications.
After completing this course you will be prepared to delve deeper into
aspects of nutrition of specific interest to you, as well has have a better
understanding of your own nutrition needs.
This course
in Basic Nutrition should be viewed as an overview, with the opportunity to
personally follow-up on issues of interest. We are providing you
with a text and web links to a very substantive course that majors in
nutrition might take a full year to analyze/comprehend. We have omitted a few chapters and
minimized a few other chapters while making the text available to you,
should you wish to explore the contents.
- Potential applicants to the SMS
Midwifery Education Program
- Anyone interested in obtaining college
credit for an introductory nutrition course
There are no academic
prerequisites to this course. Students will need basic skills in typing,
computer use, and use of the Internet.
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At the
completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Interpret what the scientific facts tell us about nutrition and health;
- Understand why we eat what we eat;
- Explain the nutrition standards and guidelines;
- Describe the processes of digestion, absorption, and transport;
- Describe the major nutrients, vitamins, and minerals and their roles in the body;
- Understand the concepts of energy balance and weight control;
- Explain the relationship between diet and health;
- Describe the nutritional needs at various stages of the life cycle;
- Understand the basic principles of food safety; and
- Recognize the growing problem of hunger in the global economy.
The class is very
self-directed. The instructor is available to answer questions via email as
needed, but you will work independently for the most part.
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3 quarter credit hours
See the
class
schedule for the next available course dates.
Once
your tuition and fees are paid, you will receive a log on and password and a
written orientation to WebCT use. (WebCT is our online educational
interface.) This will be sent to you via email, and you will be able
to go online and try things out a few days before the quarter begins.
Technical assistance will be available.
There are weekly assignments
and deadlines, so you must keep pace with the class. However, there are no
“real-time” components to the course, so you can complete the learning
activities and assignments whenever it is convenient for you within the
constraints of the due dates.
There is a general
discussion board for students to engage in discussion with one another as
desired beyond the required question board and an internal email system you
will use to contact the instructor or SMS staff (or fellow students) if
needed
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Please click
here for a
complete summary of computer requirements for WebCT.
Jennifer Adler, MS, CN provides nutrition counseling at
her private practice in Seattle and is an adjunct faculty member at Bastyr
University. She also teaches nutrition and health and wellness classes
all around Puget Sound. |
