Beslenme ve Diyetetik (İngilizce) Lisans Diploması

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It is a higher education program that covers an eight-semester program based on secondary education qualifications and provides education for a specific learning area or profession.

• To educate dieticians who have gained all the knowledge, skills and competences related to their profession.
• To educate dieticians who can adapt to individual and multidisciplinary studies to protect and improve individual and community health.
• To educate creative and researching dieticians who follow current, scientific and technological developments related to their profession and care about specialization.
• To educate dieticians who apply professional ethics throughout their working life by following the legal regulations.

Education and training are carried out in the form of formal, open, or distance education.  In addition, practical training is carried out in laboratories and workshops within higher education institutions or in industry, health institutions, and workplaces as internships or workplace training.

1. Knows the chemical structures of nutrients and how human nutrition takes place in different conditions and uses appropriate sources for this.

2. Uses the competencies of research in nutrition sciences.

3. Knows nutritional requirements specific to child and adolescent period, performs the necessary action by analytically evaluating this information under individually and socially different conditions.

4. Apply professional ethics and legal regulations within the framework of nutrition and diet counseling.

5. Knows the nutritional requirements specific to pregnancy and lactation periods, performs the necessary action by analytically evaluating this information under individually and socially different conditions.

6. Knows the health problems that require medical nutrition therapy in adulthood and performs the necessary action in these processes.

7. Produces solutions for human nutrition problems and contributes to the development of plans and policies related to these problems.

8. Communicate within or between the professions and apply the most appropriate and current techniques in multi-disciplinary studies.

9. Assesses the nutritional status of the living environment and organizes activities aiming to improve the nutritional status when necessary.

10. Improves himself/herself and creativity by following the developments in his / her profession or related technologies and takes the initiative when necessary.

11. Knows the importance of the food service system on human health and applies total quality management in production processes.

Has an advanced level of the key competencies listed below:

• Literacy competence
• Competence in science
• Digital competence
• Personal, social and learning to learn competence
• Citizenship competence 
• Cultural awareness and expressive competence  

1. Measurement and evaluation methods; types of exams and their contribution to the course grade are determined by the senates of higher education institutions in accordance with the basic principles determined by the Council of Higher Education (YÖK).

2. Different methods such as homework, project, application, midterm and final exam are used in measurement and evaluation.

3. Letter and/or numeric grading systems are used to evaluate student achievement.

The main principles for exams and measurement and evaluation within our university are specified in Article 37 of Yeditepe University Associate and Undergraduate Education and Training Regulations. The types of exams and assessment and evaluation methods, including writing exams; multiple-choice tests; blank filling; true-false; oral examinations, and presentations applied for each course in the program are defined in the Course Information Package

To oversee the quality of higher education programs;

- YÖK is responsible for planning, organizing, managing and supervising education and training and other activities in higher education institutions.

- “University Monitoring and Evaluation Reports” of higher education institutions prepared within the framework of the criteria determined by YÖK are published every year. The reports prepared according to these reports, including quantitative and qualitative evaluations of higher education institutions, are shared with the public by YÖK.

- “Foundation Higher Education Institutions Report” containing academic, administrative and financial data of foundation higher education institutions is published annually by CoHE. These reports, which include quantitative and qualitative evaluations of foundation higher education institutions, are shared with the public by YÖK. Quality assurance of undergraduate programs in higher education is ensured according to the “Procedures and Principles for Ensuring Quality Assurance of Higher Education Diploma Programs”:

1. Creation and Approval of Curricula: YÖK determines the minimum standards and criteria required for the opening of undergraduate departments and programs in higher education institutions.

1.1. The curriculum of undergraduate programs in higher education institutions and the learning outcomes that each program will provide to the student are determined by the senates of higher education institutions in accordance with the basic principles determined by YÖK on these issues.

1.2. The curricula of the National Core Curricula are adopted by the relevant Council of Deans and implemented by higher education institutions with the approval of the Council of Higher Education.

2. Assessment and Evaluation: The measurement and evaluation of the learning outcomes of each undergraduate program is carried out according to the teaching and examination regulations prepared by higher education institutions in accordance with the basic principles determined by YÖK.

3. Certification: Students enrolled in undergraduate programs, if they successfully complete the course credits and other obligations determined by higher education institutions; receive a bachelor's diploma.

4. Self-Assessment-External Evaluation: Higher education institutions, in the context of continuous monitoring, enter the “Institutional Internal Evaluation Reports” of the previous year into the Information System prepared by the Higher Education Quality Council (YÖKAK) at the beginning of each year. YÖKAK shares the “Institutional Feedback Report” prepared for the external evaluation of higher education institutions with the public. In addition, accreditation decisions issued by accreditation bodies authorized or recognized by YÖKAK also indicate that the quality assurance of the qualifications of the programs is ensured. YÖKAK conducts regular review activities regarding the qualifications determined in accordance with the legislation.

Yeditepe University Nutrition and Dietetics Program is accredited by the Health Sciences Education Programs Evaluation and Accreditation Association (SABAK).

1. Graduating from secondary education institutions or secondary education institutions of foreign countries whose equivalence is approved by the Ministry of National Education and meeting the admission requirements for undergraduate programs of higher education institutions. 
 2. To be placed in the relevant undergraduate program of the higher education institution as a result of the central examination conducted by the Measurement, Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM), whose procedures and principles are determined by YÖK. 
3. To have obtained sufficient points as a result of the central exam conducted by ÖSYM for the programs of higher education institutions that accept students with a special talent exam, the procedures and principles of which are determined by YÖK, and to have succeeded in the special talent exam. 
4. To be placed in undergraduate programs that are the continuation of the fields they have completed in higher education institutions for associate degree graduates as a result of the Vertical Transfer Exam (DGS) conducted by ÖSYM, whose procedures and principles are determined by YÖK.

Student admission for the Nutrition and Dietetics Undergraduate Program at Yeditepe University Faculty of Health Sciences is based on the numerical (SAY) score type as a result of the Higher Education Institutions Examination (YKS) conducted by the Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM). Candidates who have a high school diploma, who have succeeded in the exams conducted by ÖSYM or in the exams accepted by the Higher Education Council (YÖK) are placed according to preference and success order. The number of scholarship and non-scholarship students to be admitted to Yeditepe University is determined by Yeditepe University every year for the approval of YÖK. The determined number of students with Full Scholarship, 50% Scholarship and Non-Scholarship (25% scholarship quota was also determined for the 2019-2020 academic year for the first time) are submitted to YÖK for approval. Student admissions are made according to the principles determined by YÖK and ÖSYM Presidency and the Rectorate, with the required documents on the specified dates. At Yeditepe University, general registration admission procedures are carried out by the Registrar's Office and academic registration procedures are carried out by the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Health Sciences. Student admission requirements are specified in Yeditepe University Associate and Undergraduate Education Regulations and published on the website 

1. Those with a bachelor's degree can continue their studies in master's degree programs and, if they meet the relevant requirements, in doctoral and proficiency in art programs accepted with a bachelor's degree.

2. Undergraduate students have the right to participate in double major programs offered by the higher education institutions where they are studying. Students enrolled in double major programs can take courses from two diploma programs simultaneously and receive two separate undergraduate diplomas if they are successful.

Dietitians work in public and private hospitals, inpatient and outpatient treatment institutions, special care centers, catering institutions, food and beverage production and sales organizations, educational institutions, research and development institutions, international health and nutrition organizations such as FAO, WHO, UN, UNICEF, They can find job opportunities in many places such as all official institutions related to nutrition, sports clubs, quality certification institutions related to food and beverage production, private nutrition and counseling centers, private health and training camps, food-pharmaceutical industry and media organizations.

1. Higher Education Law No. 2547

1.1. Regulation on the Principles of Transferring Between Associate and Undergraduate Programs, Double Major, Minor and Inter-Institutional Credit Transfer in Higher Education Institutions

1.2. Regulation on the Continuation of Graduates of Vocational Schools and Open Education Associate Degree Programs to Undergraduate Education 2. Higher Education Law No. 2547 (Additional Article-35)

2.1.Regulation on Higher Education Quality Assurance and Higher Education Quality Board

The Faculty of Health Sciences, affiliated to the Rectorate of Yeditepe University, was established by the Council of Ministers on 9/7/2007 with the decision numbered 2007/12480, according to the additional article 30 of the Law dated 28/3/1983 and numbered 2809, upon the letter of the Ministry of National Education dated 9/7/2007 and numbered 15687. The undergraduate education of the program started as Yeditepe University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics in 2008-2009 academic year and has been graduating since 2012.

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