Qualification Awarded

Candidates who complete their graduate education can enroll in the Ph.D. program if they receive a passing grade on the Academic Personnel and Graduate Education Examination (ALES) and a foreign language exam.

Specific Admission Requirements

Candidates for this program must hold a four-year bachelor's degree in nutrition and dietetics. Candidates must meet the requirements of the Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Graduate Education Regulations and the Health Sciences Institute application conditions. (https://kms.kaysis.gov.tr/Home/Goster/150535). Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University's Guidelines admit international students for the Application, Admission, and Registration of International Student Candidates to Graduate Programs and the Institute of Health Sciences' application conditions. (https://kms.kaysis.gov.tr/Home/Goster/167426).

Qualification Requirements

A minimum of 120 ECTS must be completed to graduate from the program. The master's program with a thesis must have at least 120 ECTS credits, including at least seven courses, seminars, and thesis work, and must not be less than 60 ECTS credits in one academic year. Scientific research methods and publication integrity, seminar, and specialization research are must courses. Other courses are electives.

Recognition of Prior Learning

Students enrolled in the Department may request exemption from courses they have completed in higher education institutions' equivalent programs. After registration week, they must submit the approved transcripts and course contents to the relevant unit with a petition.

History

In 2018, the graduate program in Nutrition and Dietetics began. The program lasts two years, with one year dedicated to lectures and the other to thesis research. The medium of instruction is Turkish.

Profile of the Programme

This program provides research in line with universal values and country realities and requirements, protection and development of public health, and development of information in applying medical nutrition therapy that the individual requires to improve the quality of food, nutrition, and dietetics.

Program Outcomes

1-	explain the concepts and relationships in nutrition and dietetics;

2-	explain the relationships between nutrients and their interactions and changes in chemical, biochemical, microbiological, and metabolic mechanisms;

3-	in the field of Nutrition and Dietetics, explain the sources of nutrients and the properties of foods, their economic use, their relationship with one another, and the methods of preparation-cooking-storage;

4-	organize the nutritional requirements;

5-	plan the nutritional status of society or individuals, each stage of collective nutrition systems by the characteristics of the locations where mass nutrition is made and informs the community or individuals about healthy food;

6-	plan, implement, train, and monitor individual nutrition and diet programs, taking into account age, gender, sociocultural, economic, illness, and health conditions;

7-	plan and implement a diet program based on natural and therapeutic foods suitable for congenital and subsequent nutritional diseases, in exceptional cases, ideal for medical and surgical treatments, and offers solutions for these diseases;

8-	direct learning and foster a positive attitude toward lifelong learning by effectively employing scientific methods, techniques, and information resources;

9-	apply the law, regulation, legislation, and professional, ethical rules to his duties, rights, and responsibilities.

Exam Regulations & Assesment & Grading

Exams include midterms, finals, and make-up. Aside from exams, quizzes, projects, homework research, and other activities approved by the instructor are permitted. The instructor in the course plan specifies the number of these activities and their contribution to the course grade. Exams can be completed in written, oral, and/or practice-based forms. The system evaluates all over 100 points and converts them to letter grades. The percentage of the midterm exam and other activities determined by the faculty member that does not fall below 50% of the final exam contribution is used to calculate the success grade. The faculty member sets the letter grade limits. A student must receive at least a letter grade of CC to succeed in a course.

Graduation Requirements

The master's program with thesis consists of at least seven courses with a total of not less than 21 credits, a seminar course, a specialization course and thesis work. Seminar course, specialization course and thesis work are evaluated as successful or unsuccessful. The master's program with thesis consists of at least 30 ECTS credits in one academic year. The duration of the master's program with thesis, excluding the time spent in scientific preparation, is four semesters, starting from the semester in which the courses related to the program they are enrolled in, regardless of whether they are registered for each semester, and the program is completed in a maximum of six semesters. If the student fulfills the requirements for the master's program with thesis, he can graduate in three semesters.

Occupational Profiles of Graduates

Graduates can work in public institutions as specialist dieticians or academicians. Graduates may work as specialist dieticians or academicians in government-affiliated institutions, private hospitals, nursing homes, sports clubs, rehabilitation centers, health centers, schools, catering companies, and hotels.

Access to Further Studies

Candidates who successfully complete their graduate education can study in the PhD program, provided that they get a valid grade in the Academic Personnel and Graduate Education Examination (ALES) and foreign language exam.

Mode of Study

Full-time face-to-face instruction

Programme Director

Prof.Dr. Fatmagül YUR

ECTS Coordinator

Asist Prof.Dr. Nilgün ÖNCÜL

Course Structure Diagram with Credits

Evaluation Questionnaires

Course & Program Outcomes Matrix