COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ANIMAL WELFARE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
VET 2015 ANIMAL WELFARE COMPULSORY 1 0 0 2

Offered By

Veterinary Medicine

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ALI YIĞIT

Offered to

Veterinary Medicine

Course Objective

Transferring basic information about welfare in farm and laboratory animal husbandry to students.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student knows the description and history of the animal itself.
2   Learns to evaluate animal welfare criteria while doing some processes.
3   Learns the importance of animal welfare during housing and transportation.
4   Develops environmentally compatible production technologies
5   It understands the importance of standards appropriate to animal welfare in the animal product production stages and strives to develop them.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Animal welfare definition and history
2 Perception of welfare in livestock
3 Evaluation of animal welfare
4 Measuring animal welfare
5 Prosperity in modern livestock
6 Shelter welfare relation
7 Welfare in some surgical practices in aquaculture
8 Principles of welfare in experimental animals
9 Animal welfare regulations in the European Union-1
10 Animal welfare regulations in the European Union-2
11 Animal welfare regulations in Turkey
12 Animal transport and welfare-1
13 Animal transport and welfare-2
14 Welfare practices in animals before and during slaughter

Recomended or Required Reading

Sağmanlıgil V, Cengiz F, Salgırlı Y, Atasoy F, Ünal N, Petek M (2013) Hayvan Davranışları ve Refahı, AÜ, Eskişehir, Türkiye.

Appleby Michael, Olsson Anna, Galindo Francisco (2018) Animal Welfare. 3rd edition, CABI press.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, question-answer, discussion.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Students will be evaluated with the questions to be asked in the midterm and final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

It is the student's responsibility to attend 70% of the theoretical courses during the semester. The course time and, if requested, the time specified for homework submission must be adhered to. Regarding unethical behaviors that may occur in classes and exams, action will be taken within the framework of the relevant regulation.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dölerme ve Suni Tohumlama Anabilim Dalı, Cumhuriyet Mahallesi, Cami Sokak, No: 3, Posta Kodu: 35890, Kiraz/IZMIR

e-mail: bulent.bulbul@deu.edu.tr
Telephone: 0 (232) 572 35 30- 14534

Office Hours

It will be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 1 14
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 7 7
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 61

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Cumhuriyet Bulvarı No: 144 35210 Alsancak / İZMİR
Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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