CFS 462: MEDICAL NUTRITION THERAPY II 
DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER & FAMILY SCIENCES
WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
FALL 2008

Dr. Danita S. Kelley: Academic Complex 209D, 745-6356
E-mail:  Danita.Kelley@wku.edu

Lectures: TR, 8:30-10:20 a.m., Academic Complex 310

Office Hours: MW 9:00-11:30, TW 1:30-3:30, and R 1:30-2:30.   Office hours may change on occasion due to activities for other courses or meetings.  If these times are not convenient, please contact me. Please do not hesitate to approach me with questions or concerns.

Class notes, grades and some assignments will be posted on Blackboard (https://ecourses.wku.edu).

Required Text: (Nutrition Therapy and Pathophysiology, 1st ed., 2007 from CFS 362)

Prerequisite:  CFS 362-Medical Nutrition Therapy I

Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Utilize knowledge of human physiology and pathology, biochemistry, and normal nutrition to determine nutritional implications and interventions for various disease states.

2. Become familiar with the medical model as the setting for clinical nutrition.

3. Apply knowledge of food composition to formulation of therapeutic diets and menus.

4. Utilize principles of nutrition assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation to develop nutrition care plans based on dietary intake, laboratory data, and anthropometric values.

5. Be familiar with delivery of food and nutrition services in health care systems.

6. Apply current research information and methods to dietetic practice.

7. Be more familiar with appropriate medical terminology and abbreviations used in the health care setting.
 

Students in the Nutrition and Dietetics option may identify how CFS 462 and other required courses help fulfill competencies (knowledge and skills) set by The American Dietetic Association at http://www.wku.edu/dietetics.

GRADING:
Final grades will be determined from the percentage of total points you earn.
 

Total points possible (unless assignments are added/deleted and assuming all short assignments are 10 points) = 560 (may change) 
[4 tests = 400, project = 40, case studies = 50,  short assignments =30, concept quizzes/assignments = 40; potentially more]
 
 

INSTRUCTOR POLICIES

ATTENDANCE:

1. Attendance and participation in class are encouraged.  Please, no use of cell phones during class.  If need arises, please set phone to silent mode and answer out of the classroom.

2. Absences will be excused for illness when the student provides a medical note stating the student was unable to attend class or provides another means of validating the illness (accepted at the discretion of the instructor). Absences for any other reasons will be excused at the discretion of the instructor and will require proper documentation.

3. Roll will be called in the very beginning of class. If you arrive after roll has been called, it is incumbent on you the student, to indicate you were late at the end of class.

EXAMS:

1. There will be four exams (including the final exam). The exams will cover all material discussed in class, all class-related activities, all video-tapes shown in class and assigned chapters in the book.

2. Exams will be multiple choice, true/false, matching, essay and short answer. Exams will be given back for review. You are encouraged to review any questions you miss on the exam.

3. Students must be present for all exams. Unexcused absences that result in missing an exam will result in a deduction of 10 points from the exam missed.  Any missed exam must be taken within two weeks of the original exam date.  Extenuating circumstances include the student's sickness or serious illness or death of an immediate family member. Athletes and students who accompany athletic teams for official purposes will also be excused for documented games/meets out-of-town. In all cases, documentation must be provided to substantiate the absence.  Documentation for excused absences (personal medical excuses, family member/close friend funeral, WKU-team/group event) MUST be provided within two weeks of the absence.  Routine medical appointments (e.g., dental, eye, chiropractic) and are NOT excused absences.  

4.  The time given to take exams will be the length of a scheduled class session.

5.  No cell phones will be allowed during exams.

DUE DATES: Written assignments are expected to be turned in at the beginning of class on the date due.  Blackboard assignments will be expected due by midnight of the due date OR by the start of the class-based on directions given per assignment.  Five points per calendar day will be deducted from late assignments; late assignments must be turned in to the instructor directly or to the departmental office associate who will date and initial the assignment.

WRITTEN WORK: The case study and short assignments may be neatly hand-written, although typing/word processing is preferred. Proper grammar and the use of complete sentences should be used.

Academic Dishonesty Policy:  Students will be expected to do his/her own work for exams.  Failure to comply with this policy will result in a failing grade for the exam and, perhaps, the course.  Please note WKU's policy (WKU Catalog, 2008-2009):  “Students who commit any act of academic dishonesty may receive from the instructor a failing grade in that portion of the course work in which the act is detected or a failing grade in the course without possibility of withdrawal. The faculty member may also present the case to the Office of the Dean of Student Life for disciplinary sanctions.” Academic Dishonest may include the following:

Plagiarism: "To represent written work taken from another source as one's own is plagiarism.  Plagiarism is a serious offense.  The academic work of a student must be his/her own.  One must give any author credit for source material borrowed.  To lift content directly from a source without giving credit is a flagrant act.  To present a borrowed passage without reference to the source after having changed a few words is also plagiarism."  For exact sentences or passages taken from another source/author, QUOTATION MARKS should be used (unless a statement clearly identifying that the sentence/passage is an exact excerpt from another source is provided).

Cheating:  "No student shall receive or give assistance not authorized by the instructor in taking an examination or in the preparation of an essay, laboratory report, problem assignment or other project which is submitted for purposes of grade determination."

DISABILITIES STATEMENT:  In compliance with university policy, students with disabilities who require accommodations (academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids or services) for this course must contact the Office for Student Disability Services in DUC A-200 of the Student Success Center in Downing University Center. Please DO NOT request accommodations directly from the professor or instructor without a letter of accommodation from the Office for Student Disability Services.

                                          Tentative Lecture Schedule*

*Assignment/case study due dates and exam dates are subject to change.
*Assignments/case studies may be assigned/deleted as the course progresses.

Link to PROJECT : Living on a Modified Diet