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The objectives of the Course of Zootecnia of UAST / UFRPE understand the formation of citizens capable of transforming the society through awareness of their rights within the socio-economic-political-cultural reality of the place, to promote the training of professionals capable of contributing to Zootecnista sustainable development of Brazil, to promote the achievement of basic and applied research using all available means and knowledge to understand, respect and respond to regional and national needs.

Among the various areas of expertise of zootechnics, you can highlight: the feed industries, farms, poultry houses, refrigerators, business equipment and agricultural inputs, experimental stations, research centers, institutions for technical assistance and rural extension, cooperatives of farmers , agricultural schools, universities and properties that create and develop animal husbandry, etc..

The Zootecnista is a professional with solid knowledge of science and technology and is prepared to plan and manage different systems of animal production, optimizing the use of resources potentially available technologies and socially adaptable as well as developing research demanded by real problems of the field. Besides being an effective agent for extension and assume teaching function, the professional has expertise on management, nutrition, production, marketing and breeding of animals.

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.