VTA 101 - Animal Care & Management

Credit Hours 4
Lecture: 3 Lab: 2
This course introduces students to veterinary medicine with a focus on the role of the veterinary assistant. The topics taught will include basic animal nursing care and husbandry, restraint, anatomy & physiology, basic animal behavior, and common disease presentations and treatments of companion animals. There will be hands-on animal labs where students learn and demonstrate basic restraint and nursing care on companion animal species. Prerequisites VET 100 taken prior to or concurrently
Concurrent VTA 102 and VTA 103 recommended.
Is course repeatable for credit? No
Variable Hour Exist No

Is this a Human Relations/Diversity Course? No
Is this an International Course? No
Semesters Offered Fall, Spring