College Credit Classes
Spring of 2017
* HUMAN BIOLOGY
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
* MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
Course Description
Summer 2017
* INTRODUCTION TO NUTRITION
Course Description
This course introduces students to the physiological basis of nutrition and evaluates dietary requirements. Emphasis is placed on metabolism, digestion, and nutrients used in the human body and the nutrition involved in health, disease and aging.
Essential Objectives
Utilize the scientific method to distinguish between well researched evidence on nutrition and some of the basic fallacies and myths in this field.
Essential Objectives:
1. Utilize the scientific method to distinguish between well-researched evidence on nutrition and some of the basic fallacies and myths in this field.
2. Discuss how Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are established and how they compare for individuals based on nutrition, disease, and aging.
3. Outline dietary strategies now recommended to minimize the risks of disease and describe the nutritional and caloric needs of individuals throughout the lifecycle.
4. Describe the digestion and absorption of carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids with an emphasis on organs, hormones, and enzymes.
5. Evaluate and discuss the biological role of vitamins and minerals in maintaining homeostasis.
6. Analyze how carbohydrates, fats, and proteins are broken down to harvest energy and describe the conditions by which each of these molecules is metabolized.
7. Examine, record, and evaluate diets for nutritional and caloric adequacy and safety.
8. Demonstrate proficiency in understanding, interpreting, evaluating and applying quantitative data and information.
HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Awaiting course syllabus- Will be available April 1, 2017
* HUMAN BIOLOGY
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
- This course encompasses the development and use of medical vocabulary, definitions, and medical abbreviations as they relate to biology, anatomy, physiology and pathology. Students will be exposed to a variety of diseases and disorders involving all parts of the body, and therefore must truly learn the workings and inter relatedness of all the body systems and functions. Humor, where appropriate, and analogies that compare the human body to everyday things to which you can relate, have been interwoven throughout the curriculum.
Course Objectives - Develop a vocabulary of appropriate terminology to effectively communicate information related to the biology, anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the each body system and describe how they interrelate with each other.
- Define, spell, and employ a fundamental vocabulary of biology, anatomy, physiology, and pathology.
- Relate appropriate medical terms to structures and functions of the human body and diagnostic and surgical procedures
- Utilize appropriate labeling of illustrations for each anatomical system
- Identify and describe the microscopic and macroscopic anatomy of the structures involved in the above body systems
* MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
Course Description
- This course encompasses the development and use of medical vocabulary, definitions, and medical abbreviations. Students will build medical terms through the use of prefixes, word roots, combining forms and suffixes.
COURSE OBJECTIVES: - Identify and give the meaning of prefixes, word roots, and suffixes that form the majority of medical terms
- Define, spell, and employ a fundamental vocabulary of medical terms
- Translate medical terminology from word/terms to abbreviations and from abbreviations to word/terms
- Relate appropriate medical terms to structures and functions of the human body and diagnostic and surgical procedures
- Utilize appropriate pronunciation of medical terms
Summer 2017
* INTRODUCTION TO NUTRITION
Course Description
This course introduces students to the physiological basis of nutrition and evaluates dietary requirements. Emphasis is placed on metabolism, digestion, and nutrients used in the human body and the nutrition involved in health, disease and aging.
Essential Objectives
Utilize the scientific method to distinguish between well researched evidence on nutrition and some of the basic fallacies and myths in this field.
Essential Objectives:
1. Utilize the scientific method to distinguish between well-researched evidence on nutrition and some of the basic fallacies and myths in this field.
2. Discuss how Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are established and how they compare for individuals based on nutrition, disease, and aging.
3. Outline dietary strategies now recommended to minimize the risks of disease and describe the nutritional and caloric needs of individuals throughout the lifecycle.
4. Describe the digestion and absorption of carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids with an emphasis on organs, hormones, and enzymes.
5. Evaluate and discuss the biological role of vitamins and minerals in maintaining homeostasis.
6. Analyze how carbohydrates, fats, and proteins are broken down to harvest energy and describe the conditions by which each of these molecules is metabolized.
7. Examine, record, and evaluate diets for nutritional and caloric adequacy and safety.
8. Demonstrate proficiency in understanding, interpreting, evaluating and applying quantitative data and information.
HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Awaiting course syllabus- Will be available April 1, 2017