Course description for 2024/25
Livestock and One Health
BIO5012
Course description for 2024/25
Livestock and One Health
BIO5012
This course provides a review of the trends affecting livestock health; related implications for human, animal, and environmental health; and reasons why livestock scientists should embrace a One Health approach in this era of globalization.
Livestock contribute significantly to the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people worldwide and global demand for foods of animal origin has been steadily increasing for decades. While globalization has yielded many benefits for society, it also has created many new challenges, particularly with regard to animal, human, and environmental health. It is therefore critical to recognize and understand the global dimension of livestock production. This relates both to the positive (e.g. land use for maximizing food production; the role of livestock in maintaining the diversity of ecosystems; and feeding the growing population of the world, in particular the production of high-quality animal proteins) and negative (e.g. biodiversity loss, the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance; new animal or zoonotic diseases) impacts livestock can have on the environment.
Students must meet current admission requirements for the associated study program.
Upon successful completion of this programme, the student shall:
Knowledge:
- a comprehensive foundation on the principles of One Health in the context of livestock and food safety (with a focus on Nordic issues)
- knowledge and skills in relation to One Health methodologies, transdisciplinary interactions and using a systems approach.
- comprehensive understanding of the positive and negative environmental impacts of livestock farming
Skills:
- understand the One Health concept and approach problem solving using a trans-disciplinary methodology
- understand the origin, context and drivers of infectious disease at the human, animal and environment interface
- evaluate impacts of and solutions to antibiotic resistance in livestock
- develop a One Health systems approach to improve and develop livestock science
- critically review published literature
- design a research project
General competence:
- utilise emerging innovations for livestock science
- you will be able to identify and use methods well suited to solve a scientific question related to your own work, and to the work of others
- you will be able to give oral and written representations of scientific topics and research data
In addition to the semester fee and curriculum literature, it is assumed that the student has a laptop computer at his disposal.
Field trip (optional).
Elective
The teaching consists mainly of lectures and exercises, as well as project work. Exercises take place in the field and the lab.
Evaluated annually by students through course surveys. These evaluations are included in the university’s quality assurance system.
Compulsary participation in the group exercise and the OneHealth conference. Written assignment in groups (50/100) A-E, A is best, F is Fail Oral exam (50/100): A-E, A is best, F is Fail
Pen, ruler and up to 2 bilingual dictionaries.
Generating an answer using ChatGPT or similar artificial intelligence and submitting it wholly or partially as one's own answer is considered cheating.
Climate and Sustainability, Agroecology, or equivalent.