Animal Sciences - Welfare and Production
See study programmeThe bachelor's programme in Animal Sciences - Welfare and Production aims to: Provide a vocational education that qualifies candidates for holding high-skill positions in livestock advising and planning, for holding various positions in farming organisations, public farming management as well as in service and refining industries related to keeping of animals and livestock. Provide a satisfactory vocational education for livestock keepers who plan to keep livestock animals in a financially viable and animal welfare based manner. Many candidates from this programme now run their own farms.
A total of 3 elective courses are offered during the 4th and 6th semesters that can be replaced by other relevant courses. Change of elective courses must be clarified with the student advisor.
Parts of the teaching may be given in English and at location Mære.
Upon successful completion of this programme, the candidate:
Knowledge:
- have thorough knowledge of livestock anatomy and physiology, health, welfare and production
- have thorough knowledge of production economy and construction solutions in livestock production contexts
- have thorough knowledge of public laws and regulations that are important to livestock keeping
- is familiar with important research and development work in livestock production and is able to update his or her knowledge of agriculture
Skills:
- can apply professional knowledge and results from research and development work to agricultural issues
- can reflect upon how livestock farming should be conducted in order to achieve good animal welfare and good financial results
- can locate, assess and apply academic knowledge to inform agricultural issues
- can apply different tools to analyse, plan and present optimal operation plans for different kinds of livestock animals
General competences:
- has thorough knowledge and understanding of professional and ethical issues related to animal welfare and production
- can plan and conduct various larger assignments, alone or as member of a group, in keeping with ethical norms and standards
- can collect, quality assure and apply relevant information to professional contexts and present this to others
- can exchange views and experiences in a professional community and through that contribute to the eveloping of profitable livestock keeping based on good animal welfare
- is familiar with innovation and innovation processes and can apply this knowledge onto optimalisation of agricultural activities
Would you like to spend a semester abroad at a foreign institution? For students of the study programme Animal Sciences - Welfare and Production it is advisable to go abroad in the fourth semester. Relevant exchange institutions can be found in Sweden (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), The Netherlands, and USA.
For more information on the process, you can contactJose de Pool, advisor for study exchange.
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Either a home exam, an oral examination or a written examination, or a combination, with regular Norwegian grading system.
The Norwegian system for grading and assessment using the letter grades A - F, in which A denotes the best/highest grade and F denotes "not passed". Candidates work can also be assessed as "passed", "not passed", "approved" and "not approved". See rules and regulations.