Veterinary Degrees Online

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.

This course is offered in Bagé in Rural Campus, in Alegrete.

The degree aims to train professionals with a solid scientific basis, able to understand and diagnose the current situation of livestock, as well as to guide the use of modern techniques to make farming economically viable activities. The professional will have power to run the profession in any area of their training. The graduate earns degree in veterinary medicine.

Under the coordination of professor José Carlos Lucena Rosa, this course offers 50 places per semester. The time duration of the course is 5 years (10 semesters), for a total of 4,470 hours / class. The classes take place in the daytime shift.

Among its general characteristics, the Course of Veterinary Medicine, University of the Region of the Campaign’s goal to form a competent professional with an overview and critique of the man in his relation with the environment and the society, dedicated to the branch of science Agrarian that studying animals, providing their cooperation in raising the living standards of the community, whose theoretical and practical knowledge to enable the exercise of the following main activities:

- Promote and implement measures to encourage the production of animals, instructing or adopting the procedures and systems, genetic and food that are most given to improvement of the various species and breeds, including the conditioning of their better adaptation to the environment, aiming to objectives of its creation and the destiny of their products;

- Study, coordination and implementation of techniques of interest to animal breeding, including the service of artificial insemination;

- Inspection and supervision from a health and hygiene of products of animal origin;

- Study and implementation of public health measures in relation to diseases of animals transmissible to humans (zoonoses);

- Perform the technical supervision of the exhibition of animals and of experimental stations for their creation;

- Clinical and surgical obstetrics domestic animals;

- Prophylaxis and control of infectious diseases and parasites of domestic animals;

- Join the examinations that the pets have to be submitted for the purpose of their registration in the companies registry of pedigree;

- Teaching and research, both in the professional sector of the veterinary sector and in basic biological sciences related.