ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: VVSS00230o12Semester: 2012/2013 winter
Name: Ethology and Animal Welfare
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 3
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Stefaniak
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: Students are able to recognize and understand the normal and abnormal behaviour of healthy and ill domestic animals. Students are able to make a self- dependent, complex evaluation of animal welfare on farms. Students understand the fundamental aspects of human- animal relationship and ethics in animal welfare.
Competences: After passing the course a student can evaluate domestic animals’ behaviour and welfare. They know basic ethical concepts and their practical importance in animal- human relationship and animal husbandry.
Prerequisites: Animal breeding, Animal nutrition, Physiology, Immunology
Course content: Introduction to ethology, basic principles and behavioural phenomena, patterns of normal behaviour of farm animals (horse, cattle, pig, sheep, goat) and pets (dog, cat). Causes, course, consequences and prevention of abnormal animal behaviour. Methods of checking the animal welfare –application in practice.
Recommended literature: Sadowski B. 2003. Biologiczne mechanizmy zachowania się zwierząt i ludzi. PWN; Kaleta T. 2003. Zachowanie się zwierząt. Zarys problematyki. Wydawnictwo SGGW; Askew H.R. 1997. Behandlung von Verhaltensproblemen bei Hund und Katze. Parey Buchverlag Berlin; Rollin B.E. 1995. Farm Animal Welfare. Social, Bioethical and Research Issues. Iowa State University Press/Ames
Assessment methods: Passing grade of course and written elaborates.
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