Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Lecture | Distance learning equivalent of 20 x 1h lectures |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Forum Posts | 25% |
| Semester Assessment | Case report on a ruminant production system | 30% |
| Semester Assessment | Essay on an aspect of ruminant production | 45% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Students must take elements of assessment equivalent to those that led to failure. | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
1. Evaluate the components of ruminant production systems.
2. Review and evaluate scientific literature and apply results to the development of ruminant production systems.
3. Explain how science can be applied to the improvement of ruminant production.
4. Discuss ethical and social issues related to the application of animal sciences.
Brief description
The module will look at how you measure performance both financially and physically, before taking the students through the different types of production systems. The module will then look at breeding, nutrition, animal health and welfare, and handling systems. In the final unit of the module will look at possible future systems of ruminant production and how the research show cased earlier in the module could help such systems.
Content
- Reproductive technology
- Genetic improvement
- Dairy cattle production systems
- Meat production systems
- Meat and milk quality
- Management and prevention of disease
The module will use recorded lectures and radio style interviews streamed through Blackboard as the principle method of formal input. These will be accompanied by a reading list with 'essential' and 'recommended' reading. The students will be guided through the course by a study guide for each unit and given 'case studies' on the topics that they are learning about to demonstrate how the research could be used. The units will also comprise formative and summative assessments where appropriate. Students will be encouraged to take part in forums with other students and their tutor to ensure collective learning occurs. The structure of the module is designed to encourage students to think about how the research they are learning about could be used within the agri-food industry and where possible the students will be asked to discuss how their own experiences could have been different or might be changed as a result of the research they are learning about.
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | Students will be working with financial figures when discussing the finances of systems throughout the module and in the case report. |
| Communication | Students will be expected to be able to express themselves appropriately in their assignments. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Detailed feedback will be given for assignment work. |
| Information Technology | Students will be required to source information from a variety of scientific publication data bases. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | The students will be asked to consider how the research they are learning about might improve ruminant production systems that they have experience of through the forum posts. |
| Problem solving | Students will be required to discuss and provide possible solutions to current scientific problems in the field of ruminant production. |
| Research skills | Students will be required to undergo directed self-study and will develop their literature research skills. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Research methodology of ruminant production. |
| Team work | Online assessments will require students to debate among themselves to develop a consensus of opinion. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7