Courses Handbook 2008

309756 (v.2) Equine Health 202


Area: Department of Agribusiness
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 308052 (v.2) Equine Science 102 or any previous version
Syllabus: The unit aims to provide a broad understanding of equine health. Topics covered include: effects of management and training factors on the occurrence of various diseases, aspects of feeding that can contribute to disease, common dental abnormalities and diseases in the horse, common parasitic (worm) disorders of the horse, recognition of lameness in the horse and the means by which lameness can be investigated, equine therapeutics, first aid and preventative medicine
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 059999 Agriculture, Environmental and Related Studies not elsewhere classified
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Northam Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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