Program Overview

Equine Option

The Equine Option is offered within the Animal Sciences Undergraduate Major (BS, HBS) at the College of Agricultural Sciences. This option is designed to give students direction in regard to their future career and endeavors in the equine industry.

Overview

The Equine Option has two areas of emphasis: Management or General Emphasis and Human or Animal Therapy Emphasis.

• Management or General Emphasis: This emphasis is designed to prepare students to manage equine facilities, event centers, or to go into areas such as nutrition, pharmaceuticals sales, or marketing and promotion.
• Human or Animal Therapy Emphasis: This emphasis is designed to prepare students to go into the area of animal-assisted therapy, using horses as therapy animals.

Requirements

The Equine Option requires 27 credits with a minimum of 15 credits upper division.

Course List

The following courses are required:

• ANS 220: Introductory Horse Science (3 credits)
• ANS 333: Equine Stable Management (3 credits)
• ANS 335: Equine Health and Disease (3 credits)
• Select one of the following:
  • ANS 341: Animal Behavior and Cognition (3 credits)
  • ANS 435: Applied Animal Behavior (3 credits)
  • ANS 441: Topics in Animal Learning (3 credits)
• Select two of the following (6-7 credits):
  • ANS 430: Equine Systems I: Exercise Science
  • ANS 431: Equine Systems II: Nutrition
  • ANS 432: Equine Systems III: Reproduction
• Select a minimum of 9 credits from one of the following groups:
  • Group A: Management or General Emphasis
    • ANS 223: Equine Marketing
    • ANS 401: Research
    • ANS 410: Animal Science Internship 1
    • BA 215
    • BA 330: Legal Environment of Business
    • or AEC 388: Agricultural Law
    • BA 260: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
    • RNG 442: Rangeland-Animal Relations
    • or CROP 310: Forage Production
    • RNG 470: Pastoral Systems of the World
  • Group B: Human or Animal Therapy Emphasis
    • ANS 341: Animal Behavior and Cognition
    • ANS 401: Research
    • ANS 410: Animal Science Internship 1
    • ANS 435: Applied Animal Behavior
    • ANS 441: Topics in Animal Learning
    • BA 260: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
    • COMM 218: Interpersonal Communication
    • PHL 205: Ethics
    • PSY 201: General Psychology
    • PSY 202: General Psychology
    • PSY 330: Brain and Behavior
    • PSY 381: Abnormal Psychology
    • PSY 432: Physiological Psychology

Option Code

The Option Code for the Equine Option is 693.