Course Essentials

Course Description 

Causes of obesity; evaluation of popular weight control diets and programs and effective methods of weight loss.

Note: This course provides applicable information for the person who wants to lose weight or maintain weight loss.  It also provides value to professionals such as personal trainers, coaches and nurses who work with people managing their weight.

• This is a fully online, 8 week course. The course resides on the course management system Canvas. It is accessible from MyPortal.  It  begins Monday May 6 and ends Thursday June 28

• But... it will open 4 weeks early, on the first day of Spring quarter (Monday April 8) for those who want to get a head start 

• This is not a self-paced course.  But....since you'll be able to log onto the course early you CAN do some of the tasks during those 4 weeks. However, you won't be able to take the course content quizzes until the course officially begins

Important  - Know This!

Faculty are required by law to clear their rosters of “no shows” during the first week. 

To keep your spot in this class and not be identified as a “no show” and therefore dropped, log onto the course on Canvas and complete the following 2 quick and easy tasks by midnight WEDNESDAY night of the first official week of this course:

1. Fill out a short questionnaire (Welcome to Nutrition 62G Survey) Doing so will earn you 5 points.

2. Take a brief Week-1 Quiz (What Do You Know About Weight Loss?)  Doing so will earn you 5 points, regardless of your answers.

FYI: Students who add the class after registration closed will have 2 days to do these tasks, after they register.

Not doing these 2 tasks by the deadline will get you dropped as a “no show”.  Get in touch with me in the first few days of the quarter if there is a hardship that prevents your completing these 2 quick tasks.

Need Accommodations in This Course? 

Students with limitations due to a disability may receive support services from DeAnza's  Disability Support Services. Those students with mobility, visual, hearing, speech, psychological and other other health impairments as well as learning and developmental disabilities are served.   Register with their offices in the first week of the quarter to receive accommodations in time for the first test.

Be Aware

The last day to drop with a “W” is Friday June 14 (this is later than for "regular" classes at DeAnza)

If you realize after this date that you are not getting the grade that you desire, please do not ask me to drop you. College procedures do not allow me to do so. Know your grade throughout the course so there are no surprises in the last week of the quarter.

What's a Student Learning Outcome?

Student Learning Outcomes are the goals you will ideally achieve by the end of this course.

Upon completing this course successfully you will be able to:

Analyze weight loss diets, programs and supplements, determining effective strategies for healthy and lasting weight loss. 

Virtual Lectures

The backbone of Nutrition 62G consists of  6 Virtual Lectures  (VLs) -- something that I have created. These are NOT videos of my giving a lecture. A VL is a something that you read.  Essentially, a VL replaces what a student would get in 2 hours of class time/lecture in an in-person format of this course, but in a visual presentation.  This is an essential component of the course content.

Assigned Reading 

Thin for Life is a trade paperback book, not an academic textbook. The chapters are not long; the reading assignments do not amount to a great deal of reading. But reading them IS essential for passing the quizzes.

Together, the VLs and assigned readings of Thin For Life make up the course content of Nutrition 62G

General Information

• There are 6 course content quizzes that are taken on Canvas.

• Each quiz is 10 questions, a mix of true/false and multiple choice 

• Questions are taken from the Virtual Lectures and the assigned reading from Thin for Life

• You will have a maximum of 20 minutes to take each quiz

• A quiz will be open for 1 week from Mondays at 6 am until 11:55 pm the following Sunday night

• There are no make-up quizzes. If you miss a quiz, that is the one that is dropped. If you miss 2, one score of 0 will be kept. Do your best to not miss ANY of the quizzes. After all, they are open for a full week! Put their dates in your personal calendar and don't wait until a few hours before a quiz closes to take it.