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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

The veterinary field is the second fastest-growing profession. Our Vet Tech program combines classroom study with laboratory work, seminars, and a clinical externship to give you a well-rounded education. As a result, you’ll be prepared to take the state exam required to become a licensed technician.

Successful completion of the Forestry Summer Field Session during the junior year is a prerequisite for senior standing. Students who have completed all prerequisites, including all 100 level courses, FOR 205, 206, 300, 301 (or BISC 313), 302, 306, 317, MATH 212, and have at least an overall C average are eligible to enroll. Field Session students are also required to meet the conditions as outlined in the Forestry Summer Field Session Academic and Operating Policies document which is available from the School of Forestry upon request.

Field Trips

During the junior and senior years, field trips are made to forest production areas, wood-using plants, and wildlife management areas. These enable students to observe forestry, wildlife management, research, and wood-using activities of private companies and government agencies. Many of the important forest types and management activities, as well as a wide variety of wood-using industries, are located near campus.

Expenses

Field trips cannot always be arranged within the scheduled laboratory hours. In some cases, students must leave the campus earlier and return later than the published class schedule. The payment for meals and lodging when overnight trips are necessary are the responsibility of the individual student. This includes the field session. In addition to regular expenses, a special fee is charged each student who attends the field sessions.

Each student registering for any forestry or biological sciences course involving field laboratory work should have, for self-protection, an accident insurance policy. Policies are available during registration to all students for a reasonable cost.

A number of student assistants are employed by the School each year. This enables the students to work part-time while attending school.

Veterinary anatomy is the basic science to study the form, structure and function of animal body. Originally the term “anatomia” derives from the Greek ana, meaning “apart”, and the tome, meaning “cut”.

Students gain an anatomical knowledge of the cadaver specimen through dissection, palpation and observation with the naked eye. The objective basic veterinary anatomy is to get a clear understanding of the normal structure of the body with a dog. The comparative veterinary anatomy treats systemically the major domestic species such as horse, ox, pig, dog, cat, goat and chicken etc. We are instructing this course with systematic and regional anatomical method.

System-oriented anatomy deals with the structure of groups of organs that are closely related by a common function, for example, the digestive system, the circulatory system, the respiratory system, and etc.

Regional anatomy is one of the foundation of clinical practice focused on the relationships within special region of the body. This course is allocated to laboratory work.