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. Demonstrate knowledge about the organizations that play major roles in the US dairy cattle genetics industry.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply dairy cattle appraisal systems for evaluating functional conformation.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Use dairy management scorecards that contribute to animal welfare and productivity.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify characteristics associated with the North American dairy breeds and analyze their genetic progress.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Recognize factors that influence dairy cattle values for merchandising and herd management purposes.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Integrate herd level genetic improvement strategies, including corrective mating systems, to foster genetic progress and achieve producer goals.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply dairy management terms and systems to real-world situations.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Evaluate farm management practices using dairy industry benchmarks.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify, formulate and solve dairy management related problems using appropriate information and approaches.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Assess effective dairy herd management using dairy records.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Work productively in teams to provide constructive input and leadership on dairy management related problems.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Communicate effectively through written reports, oral presentations and discussions.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply dairy management terms and systems to real-world situations.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Evaluate farm management practices using dairy industry benchmarks.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify, formulate and solve dairy management related problems using appropriate information and approaches.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Assess effective dairy herd management using dairy records.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Work productively in teams to provide constructive input and leadership on dairy management related problems.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Communicate effectively through written reports, oral presentations and discussions.
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. 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 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. 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. 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. Explain concepts and processes related to specific topics in Dairy Science
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Integrate and apply knowledge to understand issues associated with in Dairy industry
Audience: Undergraduate

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

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain mammary gland macro- and microanatomy and physiology
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Distinguish mammary gland development (in utero all the way through the lactation cycle)
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Explain the mechanisms governing mammalian milk synthesis and secretion
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Articulate the distinctive roles of systemic (i.e., hormonal) and local (i.e., autocrine) factors governing lactation and mammary gland development
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Discriminate components management interventions that might comprise or potentiate milk production in dairy cattle
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Assess the diseases that affect the mammary gland (i.e., mastitis) and learn proper milking routines to ensure high quality milk standard and welfare of dairy cattle
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Formulate a position on a research topic of societal debate using scientific literature and popular media
Audience: Graduate

8. Audit common dairy practices by evaluating the primary literature critically and using research-based knowledge acquired in class.
Audience: Graduate

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

2. Develop and illustrate specialized skills relevant 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 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. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimension ofsustainability challenges associated with food production systems.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Evaluate food production systems for their contribution to, mitigation potential of, and adaption to climate change.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Identify ways in which social structures profoundly affect not only people, but also biology, ecology, and our very climate. And the complement: how people's race/class/gender/occupation/nation status within the global social structure, as well as the nature of the global social structure itself, profoundly impacts their ability to cope with changing climate.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Critically evaluate the scientific literature and other sources of information related to the sustainability of food systems.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Analyze the causes of and solutions for the sustainability of food production,distribution, marketing, consumption, and waste disposal.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Develop analytical and problem‐solving skills individually and in teams ofclassmates with diverse worldviews.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Communicate effectively information to multiple audiences through multiple medias
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Develop an aptitude for working with mixed teams including undergraduatestudents
Audience: Graduate

9. Demonstrate research and writing skills to produce academically rigorousliterature reviews
Audience: Graduate

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. Identify female reproductive tract structures, reproductive hormones, and know the changes during the estrous cycle
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Design a reproductive management program for cows or heifers
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Identify use of different pregnancy diagnosis procedures in a reproductive management program
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Evaluate reproductive efficiency in dairy farms. Design new reproductive management programs based on evaluation of farm data
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Design and execute a superovulation program
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Describe process used for artificial insemination of dairy cattle
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Describe and interpret an ultrasound of the ovaries and uterus of dairy cattle.
Audience: Graduate

8. Complete a research project using ultrasound
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify, formulate and solve problems using appropriate information and approaches
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Communicate effectively through written reports, oral presentations and discussions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Work effectively in teams to provide constructive input and leadership on dairy management related problems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Evaluate farm management and performance using dairy industry benchmarks
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Demonstrate an understanding of business concepts and thinking
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Synthesize knowledge and apply peer reviewed research to solve dairy management problems
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 an 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. Integrate and apply knowledge to understand issues associated with in Dairy industries or associated with animal scientific research
Audience: Undergraduate

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

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

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

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

2. Articulate 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. Analyze and critique research results, interpretations and proposals
Audience: Graduate

2. Articulate 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