This subject contains a 5 days Compulsory Workplace Learning component.
The 5 days of workplace learning is to be undertaken in a veterinary clinic and involves the student gaining practical skills associated with the care and handling of animals.
In this subject you (the student) are introduced to the animal care and veterinary services industry and to key foundational knowledge and skills that will enable you to appropriately handle and restrain animals and provide for their behavioural and nutritional needs, especially when they are patients in a veterinary clinic or hospital. In addition, you will develop digital literacy skills, as well as the ability to analyse and evaluate information to complete a range of activities and solve a range of real life situations. This subject will assist you to develop self-reflection and self-assessment skills in order to develop a strategy for professional lifelong learning. Teaching activities include exploring the online learning environment through participating in chat rooms, blogs and forums, exploring different social media as learning platforms, discovering your learning styles, and developing time management strategies. There is a 4 day residential school for online/DE students (conducted on the GOTAFE campus at Wangaratta, Victoria) during which time you will begin to develop practical skills essential for a veterinary technologist.
This is the first of a suite of subjects (four in total) which are used for the basis of the awarding of a Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing. All students are required to complete four subjects (ASC180, ASC181, ASC182 and ASC183) and a total of 35 days of WPL in a veterinary clinic to gain the knowledge and practical skills and competencies required for the awarding of the Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing. Of these 35 days of WPL, 5 days are completed as part of this subject. The remaining 30 days are completed as extramural studies, with the associated assessment undertaken in ASC181 Applied Veterinary Nursing (15 days) and ASC183 Foundations in Veterinary Surgical Nursing (15 days).
* Offering has a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
SY/US
One session
School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Restricted to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Veterinary Technology.
The following table summarises the assessment tasks for the online offering of ASC180 in Session 1 2020. Please note this is a guide only. Assessment tasks are regularly updated and can also differ to suit the mode of study (online or on campus).
This subject contains a 5 days Compulsory Workplace Learning component.
The 5 days of workplace learning is to be undertaken in a veterinary clinic and involves the student gaining practical skills associated with the care and handling of animals.
This subject contains a 4 day Compulsory Residential School.
The purpose of the residential school for online students is to ensure students have the competencies that veterinary technologists are expected to have (based on industry needs). The program will include tutorials and practical classes associated with the following: appropriate handling and restraint of a range of different animal species, basic animal care routines and administration of medications.
Students will be required to undertake 5 days of workplace learning (in an approved veterinary clinic) for which they will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation. Travel and accommodation may also be required to attend a compulsory, 4 day, residential school (for online/distance education students) conducted on the GOTAFE campus at Wangaratta, Victoria.
The information contained in the CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: May 2021. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.