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Master
Course Outline
AGPR 115
Animal Health & Disease
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| Credits: 5 |
Clock Hours per Quarter: 50
AA Discipline:
Lecture Hours:50
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Description
Basic information on animal health and disease prevention. Topics include fundamentals of the nature of disease, nutrition, sanitation, disinfection, immunization, and basic husbandry practices. |
Intended Learning Outcomes
Understand and describe the causes, methods of transmission, and the prevention of diseases.
Describe briefly the structure and function of the various systems of the animal body.
Describe and understand the non-infectious disorders.
Explain the life cycles of external and internal parasites and methods of control.
Identify various poisonous plants indigenous to the Pacific Northwest.
Exhibit knowledge of infectious diseases that are common in the Pacific Northwest.
Demonstrate the procedure on taking the temperature, heart and respiration rate of an animal and significance of each.
Demonstrate the correct procedure for the proper restraints of animals.
Demonstrate the correct procedure for the proper administration of vaccines.
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Course Topics
Nature of Diseases
Immunity and Immunization
Basic Concepts of Stress
Sanitation and disease control
Vitamin and mineral deficiencies and interrelationships
Anatomy and physiology - Infectious diseases of the systems and Metabolic disorders.
Poisonings - plant, chemical, moldy feeds, mycotoxins
Parasites - affect of, life cycles and control
Practical - restraints, vital signs and vaccines
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Syllabi
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Instructor |
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| AGPR 115 |
Spring 2004 |
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Michael Moramarco |
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Two Year Projected Schedule
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Year
Two** |
Fall |
Winter |
Spring |
Summer |
Mini |
Fall |
Winter |
Spring |
Summer |
Mini |
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*If fall quarter starts on an odd year (2003, 2005, etc.), it's Year One.
**If fall quarter starts on an even year (2002, 2004, etc.), it's Year Two.
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