Download B for KIN 110 - Faculty of Applied Sciences

B Course Proposal/Certification Form, July 2006
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B-COURSE PROPOSAL AND/OR CERTIFICATION REQUEST
Thank you for your interest in planning and offering a Designated Breadth (B) course. Designated
Breadth courses will help meet Simon Fraser University’s commitment to the education of undergraduate
students as defined by the new curriculum. This form is intended to:
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determine whether proposed or existing courses meet the B criteria;
estimate the number of B seats available to students;
assist faculty to think through the elements of a B course
FUNDING NOTE: Consideration for the allocation of funds will only be given to exceptional
courses developed or modified to meet a significant portion of unmet need (e.g. Breadth-Science
courses for Humanities students). Such courses will typically have high enrolments. If you require
funding for course development or instructional assistance, please fill out and attach a Funding
Request Form (http://www.sfu.ca/ugcr/files/Funding_Form_R-0706.doc).
This form is divided into TWO sections:
Section I requests instructor, program and course information;
Section II requests detailed course content information.
Please contact Susan Rhodes at [email protected] or Local 3312 if you have any questions about
completing this form. Completed forms can be sent either electronically to the email address above or
through campus mail to Susan Rhodes, Curriculum Office, VP Academic.
Course Title:
Human Nutrition: Current Issues
Course # (if known): KIN 110
Is the course (double-click the applicable box, select “checked” from the Default Value and click “OK”):
a new course?
a modification of an existing course to broaden its focus to meet the B criteria?
a course that has previously been piloted as a B course?
 an existing course that fulfills the B criteria for certification?
NB: It is possible for a new or modified course to be certified without a pilot version, provided the
course meets the criteria. If you do not intend to pilot your new or modified course, but instead directly
request certification, please check here .
To be considered, this form must be approved by the Chair/Director of your program and by the
Associate Dean of your Faculty. Please have them sign off as noted below, or send an email
confirmation to [email protected]
Chair/Director:
Date approved:
Associate Dean:
Date approved:
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Section I
INSTRUCTOR/PROGRAM INFORMATION
Name of Instructor(s): Penny Deck, Ryan Dill , Dr. Amandio Vieira, Dr. Miriam Rosin, Dr. Matthew
White
Department: Kinesiology
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone:
604.291.4005
If not the instructor named above, who will develop or revise the course?
If the course has multiple instructors, how will the department ensure that the varying course content will
routinely meet the B criteria?
The department has a nutrition committee which meets to ensure that KIN 110 and other courses in
nutrition provide the necessary background for all students in our programs. This committee will also
ensure that the breadth criteria is met.
COURSE ENROLMENT AND OFFERING INFORMATION
If this is a new or modified course:
 when will it first be offered?
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how often will it be offered?
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what is the expected enrolment?
If this is an existing course:
 how often is it offered? every semester
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what is the current average enrolment per semester? 216 at Burnaby, 45 at Vancouver, 80 via
distance education = 341
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what is the expected enrolment increase, if relevant, with B designation? enrollment is expected
to remain the same
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Section II
THE B CRITERIA
Designated Breadth (DB) courses expose students to new theoretical perspectives, forms of thought and
modes of enquiry. To qualify as a DB course, a course should be intellectually accessible to “nonmajors”; that is, students’ ability to master the course content should not depend on bringing to it the kind
of specialized knowledge typically possessed by students majoring in a discipline. Although most DB
courses will be introductory in nature, upper-division courses may qualify as DB courses if they do not
require students to have specialized knowledge or specific prerequisites.
In addition, a DB course should substantially fulfill AT LEAST ONE of the following three conditions:
1. It explicitly addresses how and why a discipline (or disciplines) defines, acquires and organizes
knowledge in particular ways; it identifies important questions and problems in the discipline (or
disciplines) and describes procedures used to generate valid answers to the questions or workable
solutions to the problems.
2. It is designed to give students a broad understanding of the historical development and/or the
contemporary dynamics of the physical, natural, social and/or cultural environments.
3. It provides a survey of a substantial body of the knowledge, theories and/or controversies that are
deemed to be central to a discipline (or disciplines).
Please give a one-paragraph description of the content of the course, and provide a syllabus (if
available).
KIN 110 is an introduction to human nutrition, with an emphasis on its role in maintaining good health.
After completion of the course, students will be able to discriminate between reliable and unreliable
nutrition information, understand how the scientific process is used to study nutrition, explain the roles of
different nutrients within the body, define healthy body weights and discuss strategies for attaining and
maintaining a health weight, discuss the relationships between nutrition and health, perform a diet
analysis and develop strategies for improving the health of your diet, explain common food borne
illnesses and practice proper food safety to reduce incidence of food borne illness.
A detailed course outline is attached.
By definition, Designated Breadth courses address general issues and introductory content (i.e. nonspecialist). Therefore, it will be rare for a Breadth course to have multiple or upper-level prerequisites.
Please list prerequisites, if the course has any.
KIN 110 does not have any pre-requisites.
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All Designated Breadth courses are assigned to one (or more) of the Breadth areas: Humanities,
Science and/or Social Science. Please identify the area(s) that seems most appropriate to the content
of your course and answer the following questions, clarifying how the B criteria pertain to each of
these areas. (For example, a course in Psychology could be designated as B-Soc or B-Sci, or both,
depending on its approach to the subject matter.)
Which Breadth requirement(s) is the course designed to satisfy?
B-Hum  B-Sci
B-Soc
1. Explain how this course explicitly addresses how and why a Humanities/Science/Social Science
discipline (or disciplines) defines, acquires and organizes knowledge in particular ways; it identifies
important questions and problems in the Humanities/Science/Social Science and describes the
procedures used to generate valid answers to the questions or workable solutions to the problems.
KIN 110 introduces how the scientific method is used to study nutrition. One example is the first clinical
trial conducted by James Lind in 1758 to explore the question of why sailors became ill with scurvy. His
experiments led to the discovery of Vitamin C.
Some of the important questions in the field of nutrition covered in this class address the rising incidence
of obesity, the role of nutrition in health through the lifespan including cardiovascular disease, the
interaction of nutrition and regular physical activity, interpreting the reliability of nutrition news in the
media, as well as many others.
2. Explain how this course introduces important concepts for understanding the historical development
and/or contemporary dynamics of:
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our Western and/or non-Western heritage of thought and culture (Humanities);
the physical, natural, and/or technological environments we inhabit (Science);
the social environments we inhabit (Social Science).
Topics covered in KIN 110 include the science of how the food that we eat provides the components
necessary to meet our nutritional needs - including the provision of energy, maintenance of hormone
function, growth and development, etc… Nutrition is a relatively young science and the course also
provides a historical perspective on the discovery of nutrients and their functions within the body
including recent research linking food and its components and many aspects of health and wellness.
3. Explain how this course provides a survey of a substantial body of the knowledge, theories and/or
controversies that are deemed central to a Humanities/Science/Social Science discipline or
disciplines.
KIN 110 is an introductory course in nutrition, and provides a survey of key topics related to nutrition and
emphasizes inter-relationship with other areas of science. These topics include an understanding of the
nutrients and their functions, tools and techniques to assess diet and for dietary planning, discussion of the
relationship of nutrition to health and risk of disease (cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity,
osteoporosis), interpretation of nutrition information as presented in the news and media, understanding
research methods used to study nutrition,
KIN 110 is a required course in three programs within Kinesiology - the Applied Human Nutrition
Certificate, the Certificate in Health and Fitness Studies, and a Kinesiology major with a concentration in
Active Health and Rehabilitation Kinesiology.
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4. Describe any other ways in which this course meets the goals and criteria of a Designated
Humanities/Science/Social Science Breadth course.
Knowledge gained from KIN 110 is beneficial to all students, providing them the opportunity to acquire
lifetime skills that will remain with them: to help with healthy food choices, risk factor reduction for
chronic disease, practice of proper food safety and more.
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