Emphasizes epidemiology, public health, principles and regulations, zoonoses, and meat and food hygiene. Important diseases and disease processes occurring in small animals are covered. Includes the causes, pathogenesis, clinical signs, treatment, and prevention of each disease. Covers the important disease and disease processes, obstetrics as they occur in large animals. Includes the causes, pathogenesis, clinical signs, treatment and prevention of each disease.
Lab includes large animal treatment procedures.
Introduces various types of nutrients, the basic principles of nutrition as applied to small and large animals, various feeding practices and their economic importance, and important nutritionally caused diseases. Covers care and handling of orphaned animals and special prescription diets. In each of the three terms, students are given a list of specific tasks they are to perform to meet competency levels that reflects the skills they have been taught in their course work.