Overview
This course is designed as an introduction to human nutrition. Nutrition is a science, and as such, it will require you to learn some basics of biology, chemistry, and most importantly, biochemistry and physiology. While nutrition has its roots in food, this is not a cooking class, but a class about food, the human body and their relationship. The course is meant to provide you with an overall understanding of how our bodies require and use nutrients, non-nutrients and how health status can be affected. You will hopefully gain an appreciation for how incredible the human body is.
Learning Outcomes
- An understanding of the digestion and absorption of food and how the nutrients and non nutrients have roles in the body and can affect one’s health
- An appreciation of diet planning, dietary guidelines, and nutrition labeling and how these are important to health
- A broad knowledge base of the Influences and factors affecting bodyweight
Describe how food is digested and absorbed into the body
Identify the roles of nutrients and non-nutrients in the body
Plan meals for personal consumption demonstrating the importance of dietary guidelines, Dietary Reference Intakes, and nutrition labeling
Assess a diet and recommend appropriate adaptations
Investigate inter-relationships between food consumption, body weight change, anatomical function, and general health within the typical contexts
Lesson Schedule
| Unit 1 | Nutrition Overview, Food Choices and Guidelines |
| Unit 2 | Digestion and Foodborne Illness |
| Unit 3 | Carbohydrates and Alternative Sweeteners |
| Unit 4 | Protein and Vegetarian Diets |
| Unit 5 | The Lipids |
| Unit 6 & 7 | Vitamins, Minerals and Water |
| Unit 8 | Alcohol |
| Unit 9 | Energy Balance and Bodyweight |
| Final Exam to be written during Final Exam Period | |
Terms
Evaluation
5% - Video Discussion Activities
15% - Nutrition Basic Concepts (assignment 1)
15% - Balanced Meals (assignment 2)
25% - Diet Analysis (assignment 3)
40% - Proctored Final Exam
** Evaluation Subject to Change **
Proctored Exams
Exam Centre Location, Eligibility, and Fees
Students enrolled exclusively in online courses may choose one of two options to write this course’s proctored assessments:
- You may choose to write the assessments online under supervision of Examity proctoring services. A $100 fee will be charged to your SOLUS account. This fee is known as the Off Campus Exam Admin Fee and is applied in SOLUS at the earlier of: term tuition posting date, or the date at which exam writing method is changed to online. The fee is assessed once per ASO course with proctored assessments.
- You may choose to write the assessments in-person on Queen’s campus in Kingston at no additional charge.
Students enrolled in at least one on-campus course are expected to write this course’s proctored assessments on-campus during the scheduled exam time. They will not be permitted to write this course’s proctored assessments online.
Students were prompted to indicate their preferred exam writing method when enrolling in the course in SOLUS. The exam writing method may be changed by contacting the ASO Exams Team at aso.exams@queensu.ca.
Information for students writing online assessments using Examity
Selected assessments in this course will be administered in onQ using online proctoring provided by Examity, a third-party, cloud-based service. This proctoring solution was chosen to support our efforts in maintaining academic integrity when online proctoring is required. Queen’s has conducted an extensive privacy and security review of Examity and has entered into a binding agreement with terms that address the appropriate collection, use and disclosure of personal information in accordance with Ontario’s privacy legislation. To learn more about online proctoring, please see the information provided by the Office of the University Registrar.
If you registered to write online with Examity, all information pertaining to the technical requirements and preparation for writing online will be posted in onQ well in advance of your exam.
The use of Examity as described is unique to courses offered by the Faculty of Arts and Science Online. Other Faculties use online proctoring solutions in different ways under different regulations. Students should contact the appropriate Faculty examination team if they have questions.
Timing of Final Examinations
The exam period dates for each Term are listed on the Faculty of Arts and Science webpage under "Important Dates". Student exam schedules for the Fall Term are posted to SOLUS immediately prior to the Thanksgiving holiday; for the Winter Term they are posted on the Friday before Reading Week, and for the Summer Term they are individually noted on the Arts and Science Online syllabi. Students should not make any travel plans until after the examination schedule has been posted. Exams will not be moved or deferred to accommodate employment, travel/holiday plans or flight reservations. Students experiencing extenuating circumstances preventing them from writing their exams as scheduled should review the information about the Academic Consideration process.
Instructor Message
Taking Basic Human Nutrition online provides an excellent opportunity for you to learn nutrition basics at the times during the week that work best for you. The course modules, textbook, diet analysis program and some research will provide you with all the information you require for the course. In addition, onQ will allow you to discuss topics with other students or ask me questions to help clarify the material. With the flexibility of an online course, be sure to stay on top of things throughout the term because the material can pile up quickly and extensions will not be granted. This course will give you an introduction to nutrition and will provide you with very useful and relevant information about diet, nutrition and health. Remember however that one nutrition course does not make anyone an expert. Be sure to learn a lot, have fun and hopefully even pursue future nutrition courses, but remember to leave detailed counseling to the professionals.
Textbook and Materials
ASO reserves the right to make changes to the required material list as received by the instructor before the course starts. Please refer to the Campus Bookstore website at http://www.campusbookstore.com/Textbooks/Search-Engine to obtain the most up-to-date list of required materials for this course before purchasing them.
Required Textbook and Materials
MindTap with Diet and Wellness Plus (MultiTerm) for Sizer's Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies), 5th edition. This contains multiterm access to:
- Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies. 5th Canadian edition. Sizer, Whitney, Piche. Cengage. - the electronic textbook
- Diet and Wellness Plus (required for an assignment worth 25%)
Time Commitment
To complete the readings, assignments, and course activities, students can expect to spend, on average, about 9 hours per week (108 hours per term) on the course.