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Stages 1 and 2: You receive a broad introduction to agriculture (see ‘Agriculture – All Degrees’ below).

Stage 3: Core modules develop key areas relating to animal production science such as animal breeding and growth; farm animal nutrition; and forage utilisation. Optional modules enable you to obtain expertise in related areas such as product quality and marketing; animal welfare and environment; or tropical animal production. You are encouraged to compare and contrast different livestock enterprises and to integrate scientific knowledge into sound production systems, considering the demands of both the market and the population. There are visits to look at livestock systems on farms and at research centres.
Agriculture – All Degrees

Our degree programmes provide an in-depth understanding of agriculture at both farm and industrial levels, based on agricultural sciences, production studies and business management. You are introduced to a range of farming practices on the University’s and other farms.

Each of our agricultural degrees carries a specialist theme (or Honours Option) which allows you to study a particular area of agriculture in detail. These Honours Options reflect different career paths available after graduation.

Whichever Honours Option you apply for, modules in Stages 1 and 2 are common. This means that if you are unsure which Honours Option is right for you, you can defer your decision until the end of Stage 2.

Stage 1: This covers all the basic scientific and quantitative aspects of the subject such as soil, crop and animal science, and economics. You are also introduced to laboratory work and develop skills in microcomputing. A series of visits to the University farms covers some of the more practical aspects of agriculture.

Stage 2: You apply the principles established in Stage 1 to both animal and crop production and to farm management.

Stage 3: Following one of the four Honours Options allows you to study, in depth, an area of agriculture that particularly interests you. Each Honours Option balances compulsory core modules with a wide range of additional choices making up a third of the modules taken in the final year. You also write a dissertation on a subject of your choice

Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry came into existence, as a constituent unit of the University in 1984 with a mandate of professional teaching and extension in veterinary and animal sciences. Before shifting to its permanent campus at Shuhama, Srinagar in 1990 , the Faculty carried its function at Sheep Husbandry Complex, Nowshara, Srinagar . The aim of the Faculty is to produce qualified Veterinary graduates and postgraduates, conduct need based research in the filed of Veterinary and Animal Sciences and transfer of technology to the animal rearing community of the State. The Faculty has recorded significant achievements within available resource in the areas of its statutory mandate.

The Faculty has made commendable work in research, disease diagnostics and health care. The research publication from the Faculty has been published in national and international journal of repute. The Faculty is running veterinary clinical complex for teaching undergraduates and postgraduate students. The clinic acts as referral clinic for Development Departments and farming community.

Veterinary Science provides world-class veterinary and para-veterinary education. Its programmes focus on improving maintenance of animal health, welfare, production, veterinary public health and the conservation of natural resources, thereby developing the welfare of communities in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. The Faculty’s track record for conducting innovative and ethically approved research through centres of excellence is internationally recognised.

GENERAL
The degree programme structure for Veterinary Science was changed to a 3-year BSc degree programme followed by a 4-year BVSc degree programme. The BSc programme is custom-made for Veterinary Science and is offered by the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and the Faculty of Veterinary Science of the University of Pretoria. The BVSc degree programme is offered by the Faculty of Veterinary Science at Onderstepoort.

LANGUAGE MEDIUM
Lectures are only presented in English in both these programmes.

UP ADMISSIONS TEST
The UP Admission Test is not applicable to applicants to the University Diploma in Veterinary Nursing.

* Kindly note that the Diploma in Veterinary Nursing is under review with the purpose of upgrading the qualification to a 3-year BSc degree. Inquiries can be directed to Tel +27 (0)12 529 8061 or +27 (0)12 529 8476.

** Note that the subject Life Orientation is not included when calculating APS.

SELECTION
Both programmes involve selection procedures based on academic merit and an interview, if required.

Selection for the BVSc degree will take place after the successful completion of all the first and secondyear modules of BSc(Veterinary Biology) for admission to the third year. Students who are selected to continue with the third year of Veterinary Biology may continue with the BVSc programme if they complete their third year successfully. The total number of students in the BVSc degree programme will be restricted to 135 students.

Depending on the experience of natural regionalization of Lato Sensu postgraduate-level expertise, the Center for Science Agroveterinárias University of Santa Catarina State, through the course of Veterinary Medicine, we bring together the critical mass of researchers who had been developing research projects alone, in the master program with different lines of research, whereas the courses of Veterinary Medicine, the state of Santa Catarina no post-graduate course in strict sense.
The proposal referred for evaluation of CAPES was approved in November 2002 with the first entering class in March 2003. The course originally had five lines of research, called: 1) epidemiology, diagnosis and control of parasites, 2) Veterinary Pathology, 3) Food, production, and animal behavior, 4) Improvement and animal breeding, and 5) Study of bacterial diseases and Viral of the animals. The growth and maturity Course and an indication of consultants from CAPES, determined a new direction, with criteria for accreditation of teacher mentors, creating two areas of concentration, the reduction from five to four lines of search, now with more support and the opening of the course for professionals from other areas related to Agricultural Sciences and related areas, enabling the venting, providing greater integration and multidisciplinary, current trend in post-graduate, both in Brazil and the world . Thus, in April 2007 the course has called Animal Science.