Overview
This unit will provide you with an holistic approach to evaluating and maintaining livestock health and well-being. You will learn about the key concepts of livestock welfare and their applications, and the cause, impact, treatment and prevention of livestock diseases, including selected exotic and zoonotic diseases.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisites: AGRI11003 Livestock Production Management
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
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- Evaluate the health and welfare of livestock.
- Develop and implement health and welfare strategies for livestock within an enterprise.
- Critique the animal welfare codes of practice and legislation for inclusion in a production plan and enterprise procedure.
- Develop and monitor a best practice treatment plan.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 50% | ||||
| 2 - Presentation - 20% | ||||
| 3 - Practical and Written Assessment - 30% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Presentation - 20% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Practical and Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 6th Edition (APA 6th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
j.j.roberts@cqu.edu.au
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Animal health: introduction; disease; host defences; immunology
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Animal health: host defences; immunology continued
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Animal health: bacteria and viruses; internal and external parasites
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Animal health: vaccination
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Animal health: nutritional immunology
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Animal health: applied animal diseases, including exotic and zoonotic diseases
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Animal welfare: animal welfare and ethics
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Animal welfare: animal physiology and behavioural responses to their environment
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Animal welfare: the concept of animal welfare and its assessment
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Field trip for BDG and ROK students.
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Animal welfare: animal welfare science in animal production
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Field trip for EMD students.
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Animal welfare: the human-animal interaction
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Animal welfare: addressing animal welfare issues
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1 Practical and Written Assessment
PART A:
Weighting: 40%
In this assessment you will develop an audit, take part in a field trip to complete the audit and then prepare a best practice animal health and welfare plan.
For the audit component you may use the following headings as a guide:
1. Animal based outcome measures
2. Acceptable housing conditions
3. Design standards
4. Record keeping
Students will be given details of the property prior to the field trip and asked to prepare questions for the producer to gain as much knowledge as they can about the farm and the way it considers animal health and welfare. Students will prepare a written report detailing:
- a summary of the property inspected,
- their health and welfare plan for that property
- provide a reflection on how accurate their initial audits were and revisions that would be made following the property inspection, and
- make innovative suggestions on how improvements could be made the property’s approach to health and welfare.
Word limit: 2000-2500 words
PART B
Weighting 10%
During class time in week 12, after the report is submitted, students will be required to contribute to a class discussion reflecting and comparing the audits and animal health and welfare plans.
PART A: BDG and ROK campus: 21/05/17, 5PM AEST; EMD campus: 28/05/2015, 5PM AEST. PART B in class week 12.
Grades will be returned within 10 days of submission.
Part A. In your report you will be assessed on:
- Quality of your writing
- How well you address the 4 main components listed above
- Use of references
A detailed rubric will be available on Moodle.
Part B. In the discussion you will be assessed on:
- Contribution of ideas to the discussion
- Participation
- Appropriate and professional interaction with peers
- Evaluate the health and welfare of livestock.
- Develop and implement health and welfare strategies for livestock within an enterprise.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Presentation
Weighting: 20% (15% of the grade will come from the marker, a further 5% will come from peer marking as an average)
In this assessment you will work in groups of 3 or 4 to create an instructional video during practical session in week 2 on how to assess the health and welfare of an individual animal and its environment. The video should succinctly explain the entire process to an educated but not-scientific audience, including the relationship between the animal’s anatomy and health. The video will be peer reviewed according to assessment criteria provided in Moodle.
All students are required to provide a peer mark and constructive feedback for all presentations (except their own).
The video should be between 9-11 minutes in length. Marks will be deducted for presentations outside this timeframe.
In class week 4
Grades will be returned within 10 days of submission.
In your presentation you will be assessed on:
- Quality of the presentation
- Completeness of the individual animal assessment
- Use of technology to assist the presentation
- The contribution of all group members
A detailed rubric will be available on Moodle.
- Develop and monitor a best practice treatment plan.
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
3 Practical and Written Assessment
You will be asked to review a current animal husbandry practice in a particular livestock industry over a series of 3 weeks. Class time will be given for discussion and preparation of a report relating to the husbandry practice. Three perspectives on this practice are required to be addressed to complete this report. The weekly activities for assessment preparation are:
1. In the first week (week 9) you will discuss and prepare a 1 page document detailing the current state of the chosen animal husbandry practice from a producer's perspective. You will investigate the animal welfare challenges, issues and accomplishments of the industry at state, national and global level.
2. In the second week (week 10) you will discuss and prepare a 1 page document detailing the current state of the chosen animal husbandry practice from an animal advocacy perspective. You will investigate the animal welfare challenges, issues and accomplishments of the industry at state, national and global level.
3. In the third week (week 11) you will discuss and prepare a 1 page document exploring current media and consumer/public opinion relating to animal welfare of the chosen practice. Students will search public media, the internet, lay publications, etc. for articles and information. They will read and summarise the information and share with group members to contribute to the review of public opinion component of the group project.
The animal husbandry practice will be chosen at the start of week 9. Issues will be discussed during the tutorials in weeks 9, 10 and 11. Some class time will be allocated for researching and completing weekly assignments. The complied weekly documents, an introduction, conclusion and a personal reflection of the practice is to be submitted as a report in week 12. The report should aim to be between 1500-2000 words.
Review/Exam Week Wednesday (7 June 2017) 5:00 pm AEST
Grades will be returned within 10 days of submission.
In your report you will be assessed on:
- Quality of your writing
- The thoroughness of your investigation into the topic
- Use of references
A detailed rubric will be available on Moodle.
- Critique the animal welfare codes of practice and legislation for inclusion in a production plan and enterprise procedure.
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
