Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate a uniform background of animal agriculture including animal growth, nutrition, reproduction, behavior, and breeds to facilitate learning in subsequent animal science courses
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Accurately use terminology associated with animal agriculture including but not limited to animals, management practices, industry, and equipment
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify major animal groups and breeds in the topic areas of companion, service, draft, food, and biomedical, their uses, and their care
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Critically analyze past, current, and future controversial issues in animal agriculture and demonstrate capacity for ethical reasoning and action
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Situate common contemporary animal production systems within the context of economic, social, and environmental sustainability
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Characterize the impacts of animal agriculture at global, national, regional, and local levels
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recall and summarize fundamental concepts in animal growth, nutrition, reproduction, and behavior to facilitate learning in subsequent animal science courses
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Accurately use terminology associated with animal agriculture including but not limited to animals, management practices, industry, and equipment
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Demonstrate proper handling, restraint, care, and management of food animals
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify anatomical parts of animal gastrointestinal and reproductive tracts, and explain the key functions of each part
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Classify common feedstuff and nutritional analysis used in the livestock industry
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Effectively engage in collaborative problem-solving and reflective practice
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Interpret and discuss scientific literature
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and show proper handling techniques used to restrain various livestock species
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Evaluate and apply management procedures associated with industry standard health care management for livestock species
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Recognize animal behavior response associated with outside pressures
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the Grand Challenges in our broad field, including Animal Health and Welfare, Food Safety, Land and Water Stewardship, Precision Livestock Farming, and Biomedical Advancements
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify animal-related faculty and coursework, and create plans for courses and co-curricular opportunities that support your degree and future goals
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe common independent and experiential learning opportunities, including undergraduate research, internships, study abroad, international study tours, intercollegiate competitions, and related activities
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify internships, graduate and professional programs, and career opportunities in the public, private, and non-profit sectors related to animal agriculture, animal biology, animal health, veterinary medicine, and related fields
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Develop professional skills that will help undergraduate students succeed in future endeavors, including preparing a resume, writing a cover letter, building a professional network, finding an internship, having a successful interview, and maximizing the job or internship experience
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe common methods of poultry production and management.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explain basic biological aspects of poultry, including health, nutrition, and reproduction.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Discuss the organization and structure of the poultry industry.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify measures of quality in poultry and egg products.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize a broad range of types of companion animals and identify some unique characteristics of each
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Characterize the basic biology of most companion animals, including health, nutrition, reproduction, etc
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Summarize the basic requirements of care and husbandry for a variety of companion animals
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify differences in the biology and requirements of various types of companion animals.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Identify current topics regarding companion animals.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Characterize some ethical issues associated with animal ownership, care, and use.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss topics related to agriculture and food manufacturing
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify unique aspects of ruminant animals that turn inedible plants and byproducts into human edible food with unique nutritional attributes
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe the role of side-stream utilization and circular economy of food production.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explain the role of alternative feedstuffs for animals in having a resilient food supply
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Describe how animal tissues are converted to protein-rich ingredients uniquely enriched in ‘bioactive’ molecules
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Describe how stabilization steps (a process or additive) convert protein-rich raw materials to food products, providing a diverse food supply
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Evaluate the tension between extending shelf life to limit food waste and health concerns from utilizing certain ingredients
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop skills in searching for and identifying literature using online and library resources, and gain familiarity with citing and referencing different source types.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Synthesize scholarly articles in the areas of animal science, archaeology, biology, and history.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Understand animal-human interactions from a global and historical perspective.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Evaluate the archaeological, historical, and genetic lines of evidence used to generate hypothesis on past animal-human interactions.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Develop a general chronology of the history of animal husbandry, livestock, and pet keeping around the world.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Analyze the process of artificial selection and the different pathways to domestication (commensal, prey, or directed).
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Differentiate domesticated from tamed from feral and identify the behavioral and biological characteristics which makes certain animal favorable to domestication.
Audience: Undergraduate

8. Apply course material to evaluate the role of past animal interactions on contemporary issues in conservation and food security.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss the scientific process as applied to animal welfare
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply scientific concepts to analyze contemporary animal welfare issues
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify situations that may compromise welfare in diverse species and contexts
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Interpret scientific literature to evaluate animal welfare assurance programs
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Articulate concepts of animal welfare in oral and written format
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate content knowledge and skills as signified in an honors project or scholarly honors work.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Articulate their honors experience to peers.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply perspectives to composed work through engagement in academic experiences.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Summarize intellectual growth associated with independent study work through mentor discussion.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify diversity of viewpoints through critical thinking.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Illustrate growth in reading, writing, and communication skills..
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss the nutritional value of fresh and processed meats in addition to addressing diet/health issues and food safety of these products
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe the processes associated with animal harvest and explain the differences among different livestock species
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Demonstrate where carcass fabrication cuts are made to produce the major carcass primal cuts and the ability to separate out and identify major muscles of economic importance
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Describe how the biochemical properties of meat proteins relate to muscle function
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Explain of the chemical and physical properties of fresh meat and how these properties can be evaluated and analyzed
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Collect carcass data and determine USDA quality and yield grades
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Calculate the appropriate amounts of non-meat ingredients and explain the applicable manufacturing procedures to produce various types of processed meats including whole muscle products and finely comminuted sausages
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Explain how an understanding of muscle microstructure ultrastructure, and changes in postmortem biochemistry can be used to predict ultimate meat quality characteristics
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recall and summarize the cellular, tissue, and whole-body metabolism and function of nutrients
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify key elements of digestive anatomy that enable digestion and absorption of consumed nutrients
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Explain the physiological processes required for assimilation of consumed macro- and micro-nutrients
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Compare the similarities and differences in nutritional and metabolic strategies across species
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Evaluate the interactions between nutrients, animals, environment, physiological status, and functions and integrate these interactions to understand whole-animal nutrition
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe fundamental concepts of metabolizable energy, protein/amino acids, minerals and vitamins, digestive physiology, and their application in commercial poultry nutrition.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Use a computer-based formulation program for least cost formulation of diets for poultry.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Design effective poultry nutrition experiments and summarize and interpret the results of the experiments.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Describe basic and practical aspects of feed milling/manufacturing
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Describe feeding programs for organic poultry production and production of niche poultry products and the use of feed additives in these programs
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate a systematic approach to decision making within the poultry industry.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Characterize fundamental business aspects for many segments of the poultry industry.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply basic knowledge of the poultry industry for use in problem-solving.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate proper interviewing skills relevant to securing a career in the poultry industry.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Describe key areas of emotional intelligence and personality traits and how they can impact employer/employee relationships.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Develop a basic poultry operation business plan.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the interconnectivity and interdependence between factors that influence health and disease
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Discuss fundamental biological and scientific concepts valuable for a career in animal agriculture, veterinary medicine, human medicine or biomedical animal research
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Translate novel knowledge of health and disease in one species to another
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Integrate concepts covered in the course and explore in depth how they are relevant to a specific challenge currently faced in animal health or disease.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify major food laws, their authoritative departments and enforcement agencies (regulatory framework)
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify, examine and analyze the implications of laws and regulations required for the manufacture and sale of food products
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Discuss current topics of importance to the food industry that have the potential to generate new or refine existing regulations on food laws and regulations that apply to specific segments of the food industry
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Find pertinent information on food laws and regulations that apply to specific segments of the food industry
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe how microorganisms interact with plant and animal (including human) hosts in beneficial, neutral or detrimental ways.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Express how the environment affects these host-microbe interactions.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Summarize new molecular and bioinformatic methods that allow for the study of microbial communities.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Describe how microbial communities are essential for life as we know it, and the processes that support life.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Articulate several ways in which microbial communities are essential to plant and animal (including human) health.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Explain our current knowledge about the diversity of microbial life and why its effects and potential benefits have not been fully explored.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the process of growth and development from a single cell level to a whole organism level
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe the principles and basic biological functions associated with animal growth and development applied to animal production systems
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Explain what factors affect livestock growth and development and how alteration of these factors impacts growth performance of livestock
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Integrate and apply multi-disciplinary knowledge acquired from this course to estimate and enhance growth and efficiency of animal products
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain what precision livestock is and why it is needed
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Demonstrate familiarity with data science and artificial intelligence principles as applied to agricultural systems and veterinary medicine
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe the current sensor sensing technologies used in livestock and companion animals
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explain principles and applications of sensor technology applied to animals
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Identify artificial intelligence applications in veterinary medicine
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Evaluate the major ethical concerns associated with Artificial Intelligence for agriculture
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Retrieve, analyze and interpret gene and genomic data for species conservation, genetic variants and gene function
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Apply genotype data to determination of animal parentage and mapping of variants underlying genetic variation for animal traits
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Articulate knowledge of methods used to discover and modify genetic information for purposes of altering phenotypes
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Identify the key components of the basic genetic model describing the expression of phenotypic traits
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Explain the four forces that change gene frequency: selection, drift, mutation and migration
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Calculate and interpret the coefficients of a simple linear regression to determine the expected genetic change from phenotypic selection
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Calculate the detection probability of a recessive genotype for some simple mating systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Examine opportunities for genetic improvement of a trait in a species of interest using knowledge gained in the course, comparing alternative strategies and expected outcomes with the results of their analysis
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Evaluate critically the primary literature in the genetic variants and their role in animal phenotypes and disease
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe how gene x environment interactions affect gene expression and how these effects can be transmitted to the next generations
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Use animal biotechnology knowledge and biomedical models to design experiments to treat animal diseases and alter phenotypes
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Explain the processes by which epigenetic marks regulate gene expression and how these marks can be manipulated
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Generate a hypothesis from a set of observations related to the genetic basis of animal production and then design experiments to test the hypothesis
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Calculate and interpret the values of narrow and broad sense herdabilities as well as repeatability of quantitative traits given their genetic and environmental variance components
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Apply additive and multiplicative adjustments on phenotypic traits to correct for environmental effects
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Interpret key components of sire summaries
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Calculate expected correlated response to selection
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Calculate retained hybrid vigor for various crossbreeding schemes in livestock
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Perform quantitative genetic analysis of family data using linear regression and analysis of variance techniques
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize the importance of functional annotation
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Explain the principles of gene mapping and genomic testing
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Describe the impact of genomic selection on agriculture
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Recognize the potential of genomic prediction on human medicine
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Describe the lastest advances in multi-omics data integration
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Explain the principles of pathway analysis and network inference
Audience: Graduate

7. Describe available tools and software for omics analyses
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the physical, biological and social nature of animal agriculture and its improvement in developing countries.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Analyze the constraints to improving livestock production on resource poor farms in developing countries.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Demonstrate knowledge about institutional infrastructures involved in research, education, and development projects in animal agriculture.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Develop skills needed to analyze and project strategies for improvement of a a production system in a developing country.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Integrate the physiological processes that regulate the body of different animal species (largely domestic animals and humans)
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Synthesize the regulation of an organ system from the molecular level all the way to the whole animal level and apply knowledge of a physiological mechanism to explain how a whole animal physiological process occurs
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Integrate interactions between different organ systems (homeostasis) and explain the anatomy of different physiological systems and their specific functions
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Determine how changes in internal or external environment will alter physiologic processes to deal with these changes
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Determine how changes in one physiological system may impact a different physiological system
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Describe similarities and differences in physiologic systems between animal species (with emphasis on domestic animals and humans)
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze concepts and processes related to specific topics in Animal Sciences.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Integrate and apply knowledge to understand issues associated with in animal industries.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Synthesize scientific literature to develop critical thinking skills.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the interconnectivity and interdependence between physiological processes and anatomical systems.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Perform basic techniques in animal handling, anesthesia, and surgical procedures.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Communicate information and thoughts effectively within a team performing complex procedures.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Establish a network of mentors to support academic and professional growth.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Develop and illustrate specialized skills relavant to the focus of study associated with internship program.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Differentiate a diversity of disciplinary approaches and viewpoints in the agriculture industry.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Integrate nutritional and biochemical concepts to understand digestion and metabolism of nutrients.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Predict quantitative metabolic and production outcomes in ruminants.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Determine the role of metabolism in feed efficiency, animal production and health, and environmental load of ruminant production systems.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Investigate, interpret, summarize, and debate findings from scientific literature in order to develop and communicate recommendations for ruminant diets to identified audiences.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Apply research models to experimental and production data to predict metabolic outcomes
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify classifications and profiles of major feed ingredients used to supply nutrients for monogastric animals
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Assess the major nutrient requirements for monogastric animals established by empirical experimental methods
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Build spreadsheets to calculate mathematical solutions required for formulations of complete diets for monogastric animals
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Design an experiment and critique the results
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Participate in discussions of laboratory assignments and presentations of experimental results
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Provide a completed statistical analysis of the data from the animal trials with a defense for the analysis provided in the oral presentation
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Compare and contrast the anatomic differences and basic functions of the GI tract across agricultural species.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Apply biochemical concepts to evaluate the impact of substrates on microbial bioenergetics, growth yield, and the establishment and stability of microbial communities
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Evaluate and recommend approaches to assess microbiome diversity and function.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Relate basic principles of microbial community membership and function in the context of host-microbe crosstalk.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Associate internal versus external environmental pressures that influence microbial niches and cross-kingdom interactions.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Critically evaluate key literature related to studying the microbiome of animal systems
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply principles from pre-requisite courses to production systems for beef cattle and appreciate management practices specific to these systems.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Integrate fundamental principles of beef cattle biology and economics into a business plan of their design.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Analyze and evaluate beef production systems.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Be able to describe and contrast current topics in the context of historical perspectives that influence the current and future US commercial swine industry.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Evaluate and integrate the foundational principles in swine nutrition, reproduction, breeding, genetic selection, herd health management, biosecurity protocols, animal behavior, swine husbandry, marketing, and housing to discern swine production practices which improve animal well-being and sustainable swine production in a manner that is acceptable to consumers
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Develop an ability to link components of a production system to market costs and revenues.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Gain hands-on experience with common swine production techniques
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Diversify student experience with a major food animal species and the industries and career opportunities associated with the swine industry.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Extend academic experience acquired in the Animal Sciences department into areas of personal interest and develop new ideas working with academic and industrial organizations
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify structures and function of reproductive anatomy in the male and female of all livestock species, humans, pets and wildlife
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Identify hormones, their production site, physiology impacts and how to manipulate specific hormones to control reproduction either positively or negatively
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Summarize critical components of reproductive technologies involved in breeding, semen collection, gamete biology and embryonic development. Demonstrate ability to monitor and manipulate cyclicity, artificial insemination, and pregnancy detection in both horses and pigs
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Summarize events in reproduction from the cellular to whole animal level in livestock species, humans, pet species and wildlife
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Communicate via oral, written, podcast, and website modalities
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Solve reproductive physiology problems associated with a foreign country or novel region of U.S. including how to digitally communicate with local residents who may not speak English
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Identify how ethical issues in global agriculture, wildlife management, and federal grazing lands impact reproductive management of livestock
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Evaluate effective learning outcomes of a specific lab and access its impact on undergraduate students
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply the knowledge and skills acquired in the different areas of Animal Sciences to solve a specific problem using a multidisciplinary approach
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Analyze academic, professional, societal, economic, ethical, or scientific issues related to Animal Science and construct creative solutions for those issues
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Communicate and extend the capstone experience to refine research skills and demonstrate proficiency in written and oral forms
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Extend academic experience acquired in the Animal Sciences department into areas of personal interest and develop new ideas working with academic and industrial organizations.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply sustainability principles and/or framework to addressing the challenge of feeding an increasing world population sustainably.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Define and characterize sustainability, sustainable agriculture and Sustainable Development
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Analyze the contributions of animal agriculture to the Sustainable Development Goals both in developing and developed countries.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of diverse animal agricultural systems both in developing and developed countries.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Evaluate the role of livestock in communities where poverty, hunger and marginalization are embedded as a way of life.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Critically evaluate the causes of —and ways to break— the chains of hunger and poverty among the poorest of the poor.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Improve communication and interpersonal skills associated with participating in team-based intercultural experiences
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Be better prepared for professional success in an interconnected world by navigating unfamiliar cultural norms and societal differences
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Reflect on US-centric personal and cultural values while building an appreciation and respect for the Latin America culture.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge of alleviating poverty and malnutrition in Mexico
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Apply sustainability principles and/or framework to addressing the challenge of fostering prosperity in marginalized indigenous communities
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Analyze both from their own disciplinary lens and from an interdisciplinary lens the contributions of dairy farming to the Sustainable Development Goals
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Evaluate the sustainability of subsistence, market-oriented, and industrial-scale farming systems
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the major functions and processes associated with behavior, nervous, muscular, cardiovascular, immune, digestive, endocrine and reproductive system.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe physiological processes that are unique to avian species and that provide challenges and opportunities for housing and management in the poultry industry.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Critically evaluate and communicate both verbally and written scientific research that integrates physiological concepts discussed in class.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Relate physiological processes during animal growth and tissue harvest to quality attributes in the resulting food
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Utilize principles of pH, ionic strength, isoelectric point, fermentation, curing, temperature, antimicrobial use, and antioxidant technology toensure that manufactured products are safe to eat, have the desired sensory attributes, and have extended shelf life
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Differentiate function(s) from sensory effect(s) for the wide range of ingredients found on labels of various meat products
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify the various chemical, physical, and thermal processes that go into producing a high-quality product with emphasis on how the order of each process during manufacturing is relevant
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Measure quality attributes of the different products produced in the laboratory segments
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify normal incubation requirements and problems associated with improper conditions.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Evaluate biosecurity plans and measures of microbial cleanliness of hatcheries.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify current management systems for poultry breeding flocks and understand differences among different species.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Apply knowledge of incubation and breeder management systems to analyze industry situations.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe the origins of disease, methods to control infections through immunological function, vaccination, sanitation, biosecurity, and regulatory agency response
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify and distinguish normal and abnormal signs caused by disease
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe the microbial world of infectious disease
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explain human’s role in transmission of disease
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Develop a visual understanding of gross lesions caused by disease
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Summarize the various chemical and physical properties of meat and non-meat ingredients used to manufacture processed meats
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Formulate various processed meats in compliance with governmental regulations
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Identify basic meat processing principles
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Demonstrate the ability to determine if a thermal processing procedure will produce a safe product
Audience: Graduate

5. Recognize how various types of meat processing equipment operate
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Summarize proper cleaning and sanitation procedures
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

Learning Outcomes: 1. demonstrate an understanding regarding the various components contributing to variation of phenotypic traits
Audience: Graduate

2. estimate basic genetic parameters of phenotypic traits using family data
Audience: Graduate

3. compare different selection strategies in terms of expect genetic change
Audience: Graduate

4. perform gene mapping using molecular marker data
Audience: Graduate

5. examine and critically evaluate technical literature related to quantitative genetics
Audience: Graduate

6. assess advantages and disadvantages of indirect genetic selection
Audience: Graduate

7. perform mixed model analysis to infer variance components and to compute estimated breeding values
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop an understanding of nutrient requirements, ingredients used to meet requirements, and the mathematical steps involved in diet formulation, with emphasis on research animals.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Develop skills required to formulate and prepare research diets
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Develop an appreciation of nutrient requirements and the nutrient content of foods in development of healthy human diets.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop objectives and formulate hypothesis into experimental methods
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Participate in a supportive community of academically engaged peers
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Develop a research proposal and implement research project under supervision of a honors faculty mentor
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate intellectual curiosity through engagement in challenging academic experiences
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate advanced content knowledge as reflected in an honors thesis, publication, performance, or scholarly work
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Articulate the value of the honors experience to peers and to a broader community
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop questions to address important gaps in the scientific literature of your topic of interest
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Analyze and select optimal research approaches to address scientific questions
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Develop objectives and formulate hypothesis into experimental methods
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Implement research project under supervision of thesis mentor
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Implement research project under supervision of thesis mentor
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Understand outcomes of statistical analysis or research data
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Report on scientific honors research through divers means of communication
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate excellent reading, writing, communication, and research skills
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Integrate and apply knowledge to understand issues associated with in Animal industries or associated with animal scientific research
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Report findings through divers means of communication
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Develop and illustrate specialize skills relevant to a focused body of work associated with a specific learning experience
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Summarize intellectual growth associate with independent study work
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Write a clear and concise research paper
Audience: Graduate

2. Improve oral communication by presenting major points of the research paper
Audience: Graduate

3. Utilize software to illustrate a protein containing a bound lipid at atomic resolution.
Audience: Graduate

4. Explain lipid functions in relation to varying environmental conditions and electron transfer reactions
Audience: Graduate

5. Develop a detailed understanding of lipid analysis, lipid synthesis as well as digestion and transport of dietary lipids in different vertebrates.
Audience: Graduate

6. Derive the likely volatiles to be generated during storage of any unsaturated fatty acid using the beta-scission of a linoleic acid hydro peroxide as a template
Audience: Graduate

7. Determine if a given reaction is thermodynamically favorable based on standard one-electron reduction potentials and concentrations of reactants (oxidized/reduced couples)
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically evaluate recent literature in the field of food chemistry
Audience: Graduate

2. Illustrate the interactions between food molecules (lipids, protein, carbohydrates, bioactive) at atomic resolution using software.
Audience: Graduate

3. Analyze and differentiate the molecular composition of a food or ingredient using HPLC-MS/MS data; fluorescence spectroscopy; and microscopy
Audience: Graduate

4. Propose and analyze how reactions and physical changes affect food microstructure and composition
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. articulate learning goals of the practicum separately from the main educational goals of the course in which the practicum takes place;
Audience: Graduate

2. gain experience in creating, revising, critiquing course syllabi, that is, get firsthand experience in developing course requirements and policies
Audience: Graduate

3. develop a strategy process to align course materials and course assignments with course objectives.
Audience: Graduate

4. practice teaching under distinct instructional modalities; lecture vs discussion vs labs; synchronous vs asynchronous remote instruction
Audience: Graduate

5. prepare and implement lesson plans of a class period, a week of instruction, or a module of the class
Audience: Graduate

6. acquire classroom management skills including how to deliver content, lead a discussion, handle questions and answers
Audience: Graduate

7. develop both formative and summative evaluation instruments to gain feedback on how to assess and improve the teaching and learning process
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Assess source, digestion, absorption, utilization, and metabolism of nutrients in ruminants
Audience: Graduate

2. Integrate concepts of carbon and nitrogen tracing and flux through ruminant body systems
Audience: Graduate

3. Develop a command of modeling nutrient flux through tissues and be able to apply and extrapolate concepts to nutrient utilization and tracing methodology
Audience: Graduate

4. Clearly communicate the conceptual basis, assumptions, and limitations of techniques and methodology necessary to quantify digestive and metabolic processes
Audience: Graduate

5. Evaluate nutritional recommendations and current topics in ruminant nutrition
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Assess source, digestion, absorption, utilization, and metabolism of nutrients in ruminants
Audience: Graduate

2. Integrate concepts of carbon and nitrogen tracing and flux through ruminant body systems
Audience: Graduate

3. Develop a command of modeling nutrient flux through tissues and be able to apply and extrapolate concepts to nutrient utilization and tracing methodology
Audience: Graduate

4. Clearly communicate the conceptual basis, assumptions, and limitations of techniques and methodology necessary to quantify digestive and metabolic processes
Audience: Graduate

5. Evaluate nutritional recommendations and current topics in ruminant nutrition
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Evaluate and discuss genetic/genomic epidemiological literature.
Audience: Graduate

2. Design simple genetic/genomic epidemiological studies.
Audience: Graduate

3. Identify and apply appropriate tests of association between genetic variants and both qualitative and quantitative outcomes using either unrelated individuals or families.
Audience: Graduate

4. Summarize and interpret the results of genetic/genomic tests of association.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use regression models properly
Audience: Graduate

2. Select the most appropriate experimental design for a particular experiment
Audience: Graduate

3. Select the most appropriate method of data analysis
Audience: Graduate

4. Determine the most appropriate model that fits the data
Audience: Graduate

5. Interpret the results of the data analysis
Audience: Graduate

6. Use the statistical software R to analyze data
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze and critique research results, interpretations and proposals.
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate critical thinking and knowledge about the significance of current research in the fields of animal and dairy science by presenting and/or critiquing scientific presentations
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of cutting-edge research in and related to one's research area through the development and delivery of research presentations
Audience: Graduate

2. Communicate complex ideas in research presentations and questions in a clear and understandable manner
Audience: Graduate

3. Evaluate presentations and providing effective feedback
Audience: Graduate