ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 16 Interactive Classroom: 5 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Bromatology
Areas: Nutrition and Bromatology
Center Faculty of Sciences
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
- Understanding how functional foods interact in human nutrition
- Understanding how food interacts in our body with genes and the other way around.
- Understanding how the microbiome interacts with the human organism.
- Understanding and know-how to apply the standards of physical activity in relation to energy balance
Theoretical content:
Topic 1. New foods and novel food ingredients I.
Topic 2. New foods and novel food ingredients II.
Topic 3. Personalized nutrition (Introduction to nutrigenomics, nutrigenetics, proteomics and human microbiome).
Topic 4. Physical activity, sport and nutrition.
Practical content:
- Molecular biology techniques and their application in nutritional status studies (nutrigenetics, nutrigenomics and metagenomics studies).
- Gil, A. (2010). Tratado de nutrición. Tomo I: Bases fisiológicas y bioquímicas de la nutrición. Panamericana (Madrid).
- Mataix, J. Nutrición y alimentación humana. Vol. I y II (2002). Ed. Ergon.
- Gordillo Bastidas, D. y Gordillo Bastidas, E. (2015). Nutrición Molecular. McGrawHill. México.
- Principles of nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics: fundamentals of individualized nutrition. Edited by Raffaele Caterina, Alfredo Martinez, Martin Kohlmeier. Academic Press, Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-12-804572-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2015-0-01839-1.
- Nutrigenetics: applying the science of personal nutrition. Edited by Martin Kohlmeier. Academic Press, Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-12-385900-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2010-0-67181-1.
- Guía de la alimentación funcional: los probióticos en la alimentación humana. 1ª edición. Edited by Lluis Serra Majem y Javier Aranceta Bartrina. Barcelona: Elsevier Masson.
- Alimentos funcionales. Editado por grupo de coordinación, Manuela Juárez, Agustín Olano, Federico Morais. Madrid, D. G. de Industria Agroalimentaria y Alimentación; Federación Española Ciencia y la Tecnología: Federación Española de Industrias de la Alimentación y Bebidas.
- Daries, H. (2012) Nutrition for sport and exercise : a practical guide. 1st ed. Chichester [England: Wiley-Blackwell. Available at BUSC: https://iacobus.usc.gal/permalink/34CISUG_USC/o7pcup/alma99101337013370….
- Larson, A., & Woodruff, K. (2017). Sports nutrition strategies for success: a practical guide to improving performance through nutrition (First edition.). Momentum Press, Health. Available at BUSC: https://iacobus.usc.gal/permalink/34CISUG_USC/o7pcup/alma99101350662380….
Basic skills.
CG6 - To be able to participate in the design and development of healthier foods.
CG11 - Acquire training to develop research activity, being able to formulate hypotheses, collect and interpret problem-solving information using the scientific method, and understand the importance and limitations of scientific thinking on nutrition, food security and food technology issues.
CB6 - Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context
CB8 - That students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
Specific skills:
COP18 - To know and know how to apply the fundamental aspects of functional and special nutrition and ergogenic aids.
Transversal skills:
CT3 - Ability to work in a team.
CT6 - Ability to search, analyze and manage information from diverse sources.
CT11 - Capacity for autonomous learning.
Lectures.
Teachers will develop the contents of the theoretical program reflected in this guide, using the didactic and audiovisual resources that they consider appropriate, encouraging the participation of students and/or assessing their learning with short questions related to the contents presented.
Practical classes.
Practical classes in the laboratory on molecular biology techniques and their application in nutrigenetic, nutrigenomic and metagenomic studies. Preparation of a practical report.
Group or individual seminars.
Written and/or audiovisual development of specific topics related to the theoretical contents and subsequent oral presentation.
The USC Virtual Campus, or the Microsoft Teams tool, as appropriate, can be used as a fundamental support resource for teaching. The monitoring of all activities will be carried out through the programming of deliveries and participation lists in the Virtual Campus. Direct communication between students and between students and teachers, can be carried out through the Virtual Campus forum, through Microsoft Teams or by e-mail.
The student's evaluation will include:
1. Continuous assessment through activities and/or short questions during classroom sessions (they will account for 30 % of the final grade: 20 % activities during lecture hours + 10 % activities during laboratory hours). Evaluated competences: CG6, CG12, CB1, CB3, CB6
2. Completion of scheduled assignments and their oral presentation: 40 % of the final grade. Evaluated competences: CG6, CG12, CT3, CT6, CT11
3. Written exam: 30 % of the final grade (a minimum of 4 points out of 10 in this test is required). Evaluated competences: CG6, CG12, CE53, CE54, CE55.
Practical sessions are compulsory. Attendance and completion are mandatory to pass the subject. Attendance control will be carried out on site and recorded by the teaching staff with an electronic support system (corporate cloud, or similar).
In the case of fraudulent exercises or tests, the provisions of the "Regulations for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and the revision of grades" will be applied.
The monitoring of all activities will be carried out through the programming of deliveries and participation lists in the Virtual Campus. Direct communication between students and between students and teachers, can be carried out through the Virtual Campus forum, through Microsoft Teams or by e-mail.
The exemption is not considered appropriate, based on the need to carry out mandatory in-person activities within the framework of this evaluation system.
The total number of hours of work of the student in a subject organized in ECTS credits is equal to 25 x nº ECTS. The presence and the hours of work of the student will be distributed as follows:
- Lectures: 16 hours face-to-face (16 x 1,5 = 24 hours of personal study)
- Practicals: 2 hours face-to-face and 1 hour of personal work
- Work and personal study (non-contact hours: 22 hours)
- Seminars: 2 hours and 4 hours of personal work
- Exams and review: 1 hour
- Total contact hours: 24
- Total hours of study and personal work: 51
-To participate actively, constructively and respectfully in classes, seminars and practices.
-To prepare and complement the contents that are working on the subject with the basic bibliography and complementary recommended.
-To Develop habits of autonomous search for scientific information.
-To take advantage of the available resources for the student, from the university library.
-To use appropriate tutorials to know in detail the teacher's recommendations and clarify any doubts that arise in the learning process.
- Regularly consult the virtual classroom of the subject and make use of it.
The subject is taught in the two official languages of the autonomous community.
Alberto Cepeda Sáez
- Department
- Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Bromatology
- Area
- Nutrition and Bromatology
- Phone
- 982822410
- alberto.cepeda [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Patricia Regal López
Coordinador/a- Department
- Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Bromatology
- Area
- Nutrition and Bromatology
- Phone
- 982822484
- patricia.regal [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Alejandra Cardelle Cobas
- Department
- Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Bromatology
- Area
- Nutrition and Bromatology
- alejandra.cardelle [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
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