Home Economcis, Nutrition and Education

44B0751

Bachelor

Englisch

5.0

nur Sommersemester

1 Semester

This course offers the opportunity for participating resident and international students learning together (internationalisation at home). It is part of the 30 ECTS semester course package offered to incoming international students at the AuL faculty.

Due to the local and global interdependence of individuals, households and society, the academic discourse concerning Home Economics, Nutrition and Education often takes place in English language. Students should therefore obtain recent information on selected topics and international documents, which enables and prepares them to work with scientific papers, to take different cultural perspectives, to improve intercultural competence, to develop/maintain international contacts, to prepare for activities of student mobility and to establish themselves professionally and with employers in an international context.

1. Nutrition and Nutrition Education

• Nutrition and culture
• Nutrition Competence and Culinary Practices
• Nutrition Communication and transfer
• Nutrition Policy

2. Home Economics

• Home Economics worldwide
• International issues and projects (e.g. IFHE, UN)
• Selected recent research topics in Home Economics

3. Workshop

• intercultural issues with guest speakers
• presentations with discussions on different student experiences refering to professional projects/internships, bachelor/master theses, study programmes at a partner university, ...

Der Arbeitsaufwand für das Modul umfasst insgesamt 150 Stunden (siehe auch "ECTS-Leistungspunkte und Benotung").

• Referat (mit schriftlicher Ausarbeitung) oder
• Hausarbeit

• regelm??ige Teilnahme

All parts of exams are in English language.

Standard form of exams is an oral presentation with a written short paper (other form of exams is to be communicated by lecturer at the start of the term).

Ungraded exam performance is the regular participation in exercises.

oral presentation approx. 20 min.

English language competence (level B1, B2)

Content of the courses:

• Human nutrition
• Socio-economy of the private household

Students have an overview and an understanding of selected international action fields of Home Economics and Nutritional Sciences.

Students have a deep knowledge of recent international issues in Home Economics and Nutritional Sciences and are able to present and discuss them in English.

Students use the acquired knowledge and apply it to other international issues in the context of Home Economics and Nutritional Sciences.

Students are able to transfer different examples of specific subjects in Home Economics and Nutritional Sciences and derive measures for their own field of expertise and own acting in daily life.

Students are able to understand, describe and comment on English scientific theories, policies and papers in order to work out the core statement or research aspects.

Resident students and international students share their (different) fields of expertise, opinions and experiences on selected recent topics of Nutrutional Sciences and Home Economics.

Resident and international students of different fields of expertise are able to reflect their intercultural professional knowledge and skills refering to the field of nutrition and home economics.

This course is integrated into the study specialisation "Mensch, Gesellschaft und Nachhaltigkeit"/ "Human, Society and Sustainability" for resident students, but also suitabel for the other two study specialisations.

This course also belongs to the selected catalogue for International students with focus on food production and life science (part of the faculty program for incoming international students).

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