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Hello! It is my intention to make this introductory course on human nutrition interesting,
flexible, and self-paced.
By interesting,
I mean that I want to present the course in a way that helps you to want to learn about nutrition. We all
have to eat. What we eat can affect how we feel. I want to help you make informed choices about what you eat.
By flexible, I mean that you can study my class notes on the
assigned text and then determine how much lecture and explanation you need from me in order to understand the material.
I've pulled my class notes from the assigned textbook for this course ("Understanding Nutrition," 10th
Edition, by Ellie Whitney and Sharon Rady Rolfes). I highly recommend that you purchase this text because it will
serve as a life-long reference document. My class notes are a summary of what I think is the
critical information from the textbook. In the "Assignment" section of the webpage you will find summaries
for each chapter.
By self-paced, I
mean that you can schedule to take your exams and turn in your reports in advance of the scheduled date, with bonus points
added. This offer includes the final. Or, you can take any of the exams and turn in the reports late, with penalty
points deducted. You can take your exams during any of the regularly scheduled classes. However, any night
of the school week or weekend is fine provided that you first get a confirmation from me on the pre-arranged
time and date.
The final exam consists of selected questions from each of the exams, along with
a few general questions from the assigned topics for each report.
In order to facilitate the development of your critical thinking skills, I am requiring you to write three papers.
I have already determined the topics and noted them in the "Class Schedule." I am providing you
a format to follow, as well as advance notice of how I will grade the paper. As with the exams, if you complete
a paper in advance of the assigned date, you will receive bonus points. I intend to focus my efforts on providing you
guidance on developing your reports during class time. Consequently, unless otherwise notified,
I expect to be at the classroom for each scheduled class to answer questions related to the reading material and to provide suggested
edits on your draft reports, as well as administer exams. Note, however, that I plan to leave the classroom
after 20 minutes if no student arrives within this timeframe, or hasn't arranged to meet with me later in the scheduled class
period.
I do have a full-time job that
may require me to travel during the semester. I will keep you updated as to whether I will or will not be available. Please check the following webpage (http://www.dlengeljohn.com) daily for updates. Meanwhile, if you need to get in touch with me, email works best for me.
Be sure to start the subject line with "HU Student" so that I will know that I should immediately attend to the
message.
I hope that my course design facilitates
your learning. I look forward to our shared learning experience. Best wishes, Dr. Engeljohn.
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LATEST UPDATE
Important Updates (class now meets in Room #124) -- May 8, 2012:
- Thanks to everyone for a super class this semester. Best of luck to everyone
with your careers. Dr. Engeljohn.
Prior
Updates: - The final is Monday, May 7 at the regular class time and place. Please
arrange with Dr. Engeljohn to bring make-up exams to the classroom. All reports must be submitted by midnight, May
7 in order to be factored into the final grade. Final grades will be posted May 7.
- Grades are posted at the "Practice Exams and Grades" subpage at the "Table
of Student Actual Scores" link.
- Cheating -- Students, again, were caught cheating on exams by trying to hide practice exams and using iPads
with the practice exams evident on the screen. Please place all items on the floor and do no use ear pieces or place
your handheld/IPods on your lap or in view.
- As a reminder, for the reports,
you must identify within the text which tables you are discussing, along with an explanation of the relevance of the table
variables. In addition, if the text for the report is less than 3 full pages, points are deducted. Do not count
the space taken up by the title and the references.
- Please check the
"Table of Student Actual Scores" on the Practice Exams and Grades subpage to verify whether you are listed as registered
in the course. The last four digits of your student ID are included on the report (numbers are arranged roughly by
alphabetical order of students last name).
- NOTE -- For the reports,
I've posted a clarification about what I expect you to write about. I inadvertently failed to change the information
contained in the Class Schedule. You are NOT to write about the Methods Section. Instead, I've modified the
Class Schedule to reflect what I correctly stated in the Class Grading instruction. You are to focus on at least one
table from each article and write about the content and meaning of the table. Identify which table you are writing
about. Also, you should add information about the conclusion stated at the end of the article. Please note this
clarification.
- Welcome. Information for the class can be found at: www.DLEngeljohn.com/index/html.
The class notes are provided at this website. Students are not required to purchase a textbook for this course.
- Students, please do not try to hide the use of your handheld devices (e.g., IPod) to cheat
on the exams. It is not worth it because I deduct points from your score.
Welcome. Please go to the various sub-pages
to obtain reading assignment and other handout materials. I hope you enjoy the class. - The classnotes for
this class are available on this website and should be sufficient for your review in order to prepare for each exam;
you
do not need to purchase a textbook for this class; there
will be 5 exams (4 covering the 20 chapters in the class notes and a final); and there will be 3 written reports covering pre-selected topics.
- Be sure to pace yourselves and do everything you can to earn all the bonus points; be sure
to confirm with me in advance if you plan to take an exam prior to the scheduled date so that I can bring a copy to the classroom!
- NOTE: For the four
regular exams, I have posted approximately 70% of the actual test questions for your review in the "Practice Exams
and Grades" subpage!!! For the final, I've posted the number of questions coming from each of the 20 chapters.
All but six of the questions can be found in the practice exams. The six questions not found in the practice exams
are derived from obvious facts taken from the required articles you are assigned for the 3 reports.
Example of a past draft report that was well written -- click here to download file
Updates posted earlier this semester:
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