This subject contains a 3 day Compulsory Residential School.
Residential School activities will focus on teaching a hands on approach to theory taught in the DE structure.
This subject introduces students to the principles of health and disease in farm production animals, horses and zoo animals. It covers topics such as immunology, epidemiology, parasitology, exotic diseases, stress, pharmacology and animal health economics. Within these topics the subject allows specialisation for horses, farm animals or zoo animals.
The subject content emphasises herd health and overall 'enterprise' health and strategic planning, including disease prevention through sound management and husbandry. For those students studying by distance education, this subject has a compulsory 3 day residential school. During the residential school a number of practical activities will be undertaken to provide a practical application to the theory taught in the subject. Furthermore, the residential school has been designed to ensure that the learning experiences of students enrolled via distance education are equitable to those of students enrolled internally in the subject.
* Offering has a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
HD/FL
One session
School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Animal Anatomy and Physiology
This subject contains a 3 day Compulsory Residential School.
Residential School activities will focus on teaching a hands on approach to theory taught in the DE structure.
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The information contained in the CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: May 2019. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.