APSC 5224: Animal Welfare Assessment
| Concentration: Applied Animal Behavior and Welfare Credits: 3 graduate credits |
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Description
Animal Welfare Assessment provides multidisciplinary online computer-based instruction on animal welfare science and related issues including physiology, behavior, human-animal interactions, suffering and pain, ethics, health, assessment and standards, and economics. Students gain experience assessing the welfare of animals of a variety of species in virtual situations. Problem solving and critical thinking skills are promoted through these assessment exercises, discussions with the instructors and classmates, reading of peer-reviewed literature and assignments.
Learning Objectives
Having successfully completed this course, the student will be able to
- Justify your own conception of animal welfare and engage in dialogue with others who
- hold different perspectives.
- Evaluate possibilities and limitations of studying animal welfare using various scientific disciplines
- Assess animal welfare using outcome-and resource-based information
- Formulate recommendations to improve animal welfare based on assessment
- outcomes
- Interpret social rules and regulations and differentiate their impact on welfare
- outcomes
Prerequisites and Corequisites
Graduate Standing