FdSc Animal Management

2 years full-time or 3 years part-time

Venue

Knightstone Campus

Why choose this course

Taught in partnership with Hartpury College (UWE) this unique course integrates good knowledge of animal management with specialist subject knowledge within animal science.

This course offers you personal, professional and academic development for advancement in your chosen career and will enable potential industry contacts to be made.

Course structure and content

In recent years there has been considerable growth in the animal industry and an increasing need for well qualified employees to work in this sector. It is a vocationally focused programme that will enable you to engage in work-based learning throughout your course.

Modules include:

Year one

  • Animal behaviour
  • Animal genetics
  • Animal nutrition
  • Anatomy and physiology
  • Animal practice (includes 80 hours of work experience)
  • Business studies
  • Introduction to veterinary science
  • Introduction to animal biology (subject to previous qualifications).

Year two

  • Animal management (to include 220 hours of work experience)
  • Business principles
  • Ethics and welfare
  • Field ecology
  • Statistics and research methods.
  • You will have an opportunity to attend an eco-school in South Africa.

Delivery method

  • Taught sessions will take the form of:
  • Formal lectures
  • Group seminars
  • Practical sessions
  • Workshops
  • Work-based learning.

In partnerhip with

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Entry Requirements

Offers will usually be based on UCAS tariff of 160 points from at least one of the following:
 

  • BTEC National Diploma/ Certificate/Award in a related area
  • Advanced/Extended Diploma in a related area
  • A Levels or vocational A Levels in a related subject, preferably one in a biological science
  • Access to Higher Education course
  • Advanced Apprenticeship in a related area.

If you do not possess the relevant entry requirements, recent and relevant experience may be taken into account. Applicants will be
assessed on an individual basis.

If you intend to progress to the Honours top-up stage you will also need Maths and English GCSE at grade C or above or an equivalent qualification. It is possible to study these qualifications alongside the Foundation Degree, but you would be at an advantage if you obtained these before starting the course.

Progression

 There are opportunities to continue your studies for a further year to complete an Honours Degree at Hartpury College or other animal related degrees, or progress to specialist areas such as animal behaviour, nutrition or veterinary nursing.

Alternatively, this course will prepare you for a variety of careers in the industry including employment by animal welfare and wildlife organisations, zoological work, and supervisory posts in animal retail organisations or animal product sales.

How to apply

Full-time courses

Full-time course: complete a UCAS online application form and submit it electronically (ucas.com). The UCAS website provides detailed information about making your application, so if you need any further details please visit their site.

  1. Fill in a University and College Admissions Service (UCAS) application form online following UCAS guidelines and submit it through the website, ucas.com. The UCAS website gives lots of information about making your application, so you can find more details there.
  2. We will get your application through UCAS and may invite you to an interview or audition with a course tutor.
  3. We will let UCAS know what we decide about your application as soon as possible after your interview.
  4. UCAS will let you know what we decide via UCAS track so login regularly. Remember to apply for your funding at direct.gov.uk/studentfinance. More information about the tariff can be found at ucas.ac.uk/students/ucas_tariff.

Part-time courses

  1. Please contact our Higher Education Unit on 01934 411 780 for the right form. Once received fill in the direct entry application form and return it to us. You will be applying to one of our partner universities.
  2. We will tell you when we get your application and may invite you in for a course guidance interview with a tutor.

Please contact our Higher Education Unit for further information or support on applying on 01934 411 780.

UCAS Codes

Institution Code: B80

Course Code: D302

Campus Code: E