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Joint Program in Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (100 Credits)
In order to meet the increasing demand for food-animal veterinarians, the Department of Animal Sciences and the College of Veterinary Medicine have created a combined program designed to train selected, highly qualified students to earn both a Bachelor of Science in Animal Sciences and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree within a seven-year program. Students will take a three-year animal science program, completing all UCOREs, the animal sciences core and pre-veterinary medicine requirements. This program includes mathematics; chemistry, including organic and biochemistry; general biology; physics; and the core of animal sciences courses, including an introduction to farm animals; then further education in animal feeds and nutrition, breeding and genetics, reproduction and the economics of animal production management. Students will then enter the College of Veterinary Medicine and complete the requirements for total hours and 300-400-level hours before earning the BS in Animal Sciences. Students will continue the curriculum, leading to the DVM degree after a total of seven years of college work.
Students will enter the university under normal procedures and must be advised in the Department of Animal Sciences. Qualified students will be invited to apply for the program. A high scholastic achievement and the promise of the same and demonstrated experience and interest in working with farm animals will be the primary criteria for initial invitation. Selected students will be identified and invited to apply for the AS-DVM program after the second semester of the first year. Students would then declare animal sciences as a major in the first semester of the sophomore year and enter the joint program in that year. The procedures for acceptance into the DVM program will be the same as those for other applicants. Successful participants will complete the three-year animal sciences program and begin the veterinary medicine curriculum in their fourth year of study. If the student is not accepted or withdraws from the AS-DVM program, the student could earn the BS in Animal Sciences and/or apply to the College of Veterinary Medicine under normal procedures.
Fourth-Seventh Years
Those students finishing all required classes would complete only the DVM curriculum from this point on. Most students will meet these requirements after one year of the DVM program. Successful completion of the College of Veterinary Medicine program will earn the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
Students will enter the university under normal procedures and must be advised in the Department of Animal Sciences. Qualified students will be invited to apply for the program. A high scholastic achievement and the promise of the same and demonstrated experience and interest in working with farm animals will be the primary criteria for initial invitation. Selected students will be identified and invited to apply for the AS-DVM program after the second semester of the first year. Students would then declare animal sciences as a major in the first semester of the sophomore year and enter the joint program in that year. The procedures for acceptance into the DVM program will be the same as those for other applicants. Successful participants will complete the three-year animal sciences program and begin the veterinary medicine curriculum in their fourth year of study. If the student is not accepted or withdraws from the AS-DVM program, the student could earn the BS in Animal Sciences and/or apply to the College of Veterinary Medicine under normal procedures.
Fourth-Seventh Years
Those students finishing all required classes would complete only the DVM curriculum from this point on. Most students will meet these requirements after one year of the DVM program. Successful completion of the College of Veterinary Medicine program will earn the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
| First Year | |
| First Term | Credits |
| ANIM SCI 101 | 3 |
| ANIM SCI 172, 174, or 178 | 1 |
| ANIM SCI 180 | 1 |
| CHEM 105 [PSCI] | 4 |
| HISTORY 105 [ROOT] | 3 |
| MATH 107 or 140 | 4 |
| Second Term | Credits |
| Arts [ARTS] | 3 |
| BIOLOGY 106 [BSCI] | 4 |
| CHEM 106 | 4 |
| COM 102 [COMM] or H D 205 [COMM] | 3 |
| ENGLISH 101 [WRTG] | 3 |
| Second Year | |
| First Term | Credits |
| ANIM SCI Elective | 3 |
| BIOLOGY 107 | 4 |
| CHEM 345 | 4 |
| Diversity [DIVR] | 3 |
| Humanities [HUM] | 3 |
| Second Term | Credits |
| ECONS 101 [SSCI] | 3 |
| MBIOS 301 | 4 |
| STAT 212 [QUAN] | 4 |
| VET PH 308 | 4 |
| Complete Writing Portfolio | |
| Third Year | |
| First Term | Credits |
| ANIM SCI 313 | 4 |
| ANIM SCI 330 | 3 |
| ANIM SCI 380 | 1 |
| ANIM SCI 440, 464, 472, or 488 [M] | 3 |
| ECONS 350 | 3 |
| MBIOS 303 | 4 |
| Second Term | Credits |
| ANIM SCI 350 | 3 |
| ANIM SCI 351 | 1 |
| ANIM SCI 408, 473, or 474 [CAPS] [M] | 3 |
| ANIM SCI 499 | 3 |
| Integrative Capstone [CAPS] | 3 |
| PHYSICS 101 | 4 |