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Course code: BBS20394o16Semester: 2016/2017 summer
Name: Analytical Methods Applied in Ecotrophology
Major: Biology
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 4
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: dr Maja Słupczyńska
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course taught in English if the group has ≥6 students. The course taught in Polish with a possibility of support in English if the group has <6 students.
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: Student knows the issues of safe and hygienic work in laboratories and the methods of chemical and instrumental. He/she has knowledge about the methods and techniques applied in laboratories, knows the advantages and defects of different analytical techniques. Student is able to indicate the factors which can to determine the results of analytical research, knows the rules of biological material managing and indicates the threats arising from work with biological material. Moreover student makes a selection of methods to assess the content of basic nutrients, minerals and antinutritive substances, defines the usefulness of application of analytical procedures of food and feedstuffs of plant and animal origin considering the requirement of the human and animals and characterizes the consequences which arise from nutrients both deficiency or excess. Skills: Student knows how to assess the risk of threats connected with work in the laboratory, with particular regard to the biological. He/she is responsible during the work in laboratory according to the principles of the safety and is able to take the representative samples of material devoted to the laboratory research according to the planned designation. Student performs analyses of feed and biological material of plant or animal origin, uses the knowledge concerning chemical analytics of food and different feed materials and the methods applicable in the laboratory analytics: optical, spectroscopic, electroanalytical etc. Performs the analyses using optical spectroscopic methods and atomic absorption spectroscopy AAS. Student is able to evaluate the factors affecting the result of laboratory research avoiding both the before and post analytical errors, interprets the results of the laboratory examinations on the basis of the reference values given in standards or recommendations and and interprets analytical data and on this basis formulate conclusions.
Competences: Social skills (attitude): Student works according to the principles of safe and hygienic work in analytical laboratories, showing the responsibility for the assessment of the risks arising from the used research techniques. He or she is aware of the necessity to continuous update the knowledge about the analytical techniques used in biological research and shows the creativity and is able to determine the priorities for realization of analysis. Student is aware of the responsibility for the analyses realized commonly in the team and actively develops the qualifications searching for alternative method of determining of various kinds of substances in foods and feedstuffs.
Prerequisites: chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, microbiology
Course content: Usefulness of application of analytics of food and feedstuffs of plant and animal origin as well as of biological material (the rumen, intestinal contents, feces, urine, blood, bones). The methods for estimation of the basic nutrients, minerals and antinutritive substances.
Recommended literature: 1. K. Heldrich (ed).: AOAC. Official Methods of Analysis of Analytical Chemists. 17th edition, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 2005
Assessment methods: Assessment of tutorials: 1 written test that will be evaluated, current assessment of the progress in learning and activity (on the basis of approved exercises – report from each completed exercise – related to the practical problem and student's comments). For approval of the practical part, the student is obliged to deliver all reports and to obtain a positive evaluation from the test. The participation in the exercises is obligatory; the student can have only one unjustified absence. In the case of justified absence student is obliged to approve the relevant part of the knowledge. The exercises will be approved on the basis of the average ratings. Assessment of course: students who have approved exercises are obliged to complete the written, descriptive examination (5-10 questions) in the examination session. Exam lasts 100 min. minutes. If the exam will not be completed at the first time a student has the right to pass it again orally or in writing form during second session.
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