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2024-2025 Course Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Course Catalog
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AGV 245 - Introduction to Animal Disease

Credits: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Voc/Tech
This course covers various common disease processes, prevention practices, and treatment for several species of domestic animals.
Prerequisite: AGV 120  , AGV 128  , AGV 129  , AGV 231  , AGV 164  
Competencies
  1. Differentiate various disease categories
    1. Define infectious vs noninfectious
    2. Categorize zoonotic vs non-zoonotic
    3. List reportable diseases
  2. Specify vaccination protocols for various common domestic species
    1. Understand core and noncore canine and feline vaccines
    2. Identify core and noncore equine vaccines
    3. List core and noncore ruminant vaccines
  3. Identify a variety of disease processes that occur in various organ systems of the body
    1. Discuss common disease processes that occur in the canine species
    2. Describe common disease processes that occur in the feline species
    3. Recognize common disease processes that occur in the ruminant species
    4. Recite common disease processes that occur in the equine species
  4. Summarize clinical signs for common diseases of common domestic species
    1. Explain the common clinical signs for various diseases for the canine species
    2. Describe the common clinical signs for various diseases for the feline species
    3. Identify the common clinical signs for various diseases for the ruminant species
    4. Discuss the common clinical signs for various diseases for the equine species
  5. Outline treatment options available for various diseases
    1. Discuss preventative methods for common diseases for the canine species
    2. Identify preventative methods for common diseases for the feline species
    3. List preventative methods for common diseases for the ruminant species
    4. Name preventative methods for common diseases for the equine species

Competencies Revised Date: AY2025



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