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24 November 2015 – preliminary programme
International Summer Course 2016: Obesity in a Cross-disciplinary
Perspective (10 ECTS)
Morning: 9.15 - 12.00
Afternoon: 12.45 – 14.30
After classes: students write short logs about what they have learnt that day.
There will be group work and preparation to be done after classes.
Programme:
Monday 8 August
Morning: Introduction. What is obesity?
Afternoon: Cross disciplinary work. Katrine Lindvig.
Evening: Dinner for participants and teachers.
Tuesday 9 August
Morning: History of obesity. Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen
Afternoon: Causes, development, occurrence, and consequences of obesity.
Thorkild I.A. Sørensen
Wednesday 10 August
Morning: Causes, development, occurrence, and consequences of obesity.
Thorkild I.A. Sørensen
Afternoon: Food, nutritional aspects. Thomas Meinert
Thursday 11 August
Morning: Food, sociological aspects. Lotte Holm and Bodil Just Christensen
Afternoon: Physical activity. Physiology and ethnology. Astrid Jespersen and
Bente Stallknecht
Friday 12 August
Morning: Physical activity. Physiology and ethnology. Astrid Jespersen and Bente
Stallknecht
Afternoon: Responsibility. Philosophy and policy analysis. Morten Ebbe Jul
Nielsen and Signild Vallgårda
Monday 15 August
Morning: Responsibility. Philosophy and policy analysis. Morten Ebbe Jul Nielsen
and Signild Vallgårda
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Afternoon: Psychology and stigma. Claudia Sikorski
Tuesday 16 August
Morning: Psychology and stigma. Claudia Sikorski
Afternoon: Poster presentation, prepared in groups, on causes of obesity and the
role of food and physical activity
Wednesday 17 August
Morning: Oral presentation, prepared in groups on obesity and responsibility.
Afternoon: Treatments. Jens-Christian Holm and Sten Madsbad.
Thursday 187 August
Morning: Treatments. Jens-Christian Holm and Sten Madsbad.
Afternoon: Regulation. Economy and law. Mette Hartlev and Jørgen Dejgård
Jensen
Friday 19 August
Morning: Regulation. Economy and law. Mette Hartlev and Jørgen Dejgård
Jensen
Afternoon: Panel discussion on definitions of obesity and its causes and political
implications of these.
Evaluation handing out and instructions of final assignment.
Exam:
1. Presentation of national or local obesity policies or obesity prevalence, in
different social groups, geographical areas etc. Prepared individually before the
course. Pass/fail.
2. Poster presentation, prepared in groups, on causes of obesity and the role of
food and physical activity. Prepared during the course. Pass/fail.
3. Oral presentation, prepared in groups on obesity and responsibility. Prepared
during the course. Pass/fail.
4. Individual assignment on topic defined by the teachers. Graded 7-scale.
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