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Course code: BBS20194f11Semester: 2011/2012 summer
Name: Milk biology
Major: Biology
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 0
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: prof. Tadeusz Szulc
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: After completing the course student should know: mechanisms of milk formation, significance of milk in mammals, composition and physical properties of milk, milk functions and properties with respect to health status, conditions of the composition and quality of milk and colostrum, physiological and nutritional significance of milk in human feeding, usefulness of various mammals milk in processing, milk humanization.
Competences: The knowledge of significance and function of milk and analytics in the range of milk quality assessment. After completion of the course with a positive result and after passing a practical exam students may obtain a certificate of milk assessment and analysis.
Prerequisites: Not reqired
Course content: Production and significance of milk of various mammals in feeding of neonates and human, physiology of milk formation, composition, physical, chemical and biological properties of milk and colostrum, properties of milk components with respect to human health, processing of various mammals milk, directions in milk processing, milk humanization, milk in prevention and therapeutics.
Recommended literature: Jerzyk M. E.: Mleko, produkcja, badanie, przerób. wydawnictwo SGGW w Warszawie, Warszawa 2005 Szulc T., Zachwieja A.: Siara eliksir życia osesków. Wydawnictwo akademii Rolniczej we Wrocławiu 1988 Litwińczuk Z., Szulc T.: Hodowla bydła. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Rolnicze i Leśne, Warszawa 2005 Polskie Normy oceny jakości mleka
Assessment methods: Written assessment, minimum 70% of knowledge to pass.
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