Certificate in Veterinary Science
This online undergraduate certificate has been developed to help prepare pre-professional students planning a career in veterinary medicine in the areas of biomedical and veterinary terminology, animal handling, sanitation, and welfare. Courses may be used as partial requirement to apply to a college of veterinary medicine.
Requirements
A total of 16 credit hours in online BIOMED courses are required. Twelve credit hours are core courses and 4 credit hours are selected from the elective course list.
| Required Core Courses (12 hours) | ||
| BIOMED 2110 | Biomedical Terminology | 3 |
| BIOMED 2111 | Veterinary Medical Terminology | 1 |
| BIOMED 2120 | Essentials of Animal Handling and Physical Restraint | 2 |
| BIOMED 2230 | Farm Animal Sanitation and Disease Prevention | 3 |
| BIOMED 3300 | Animal Welfare and Ethics | 3 |
| Electives (4 hours) | ||
| BIOMED 1010 | Biomedical Career Explorations | 1 |
| BIOMED 2130 | Introduction to Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology | 3 |
| BIOMED 3100 | Biomedical Pathophysiology | 3 |
| BIOMED 3219 | Elements of Comparative Anatomy | 3 |
| BIOMED 3326 | Principles of Veterinary Pharmacology | 3 |
| BIOMED 3400 | Domestic Animal Behavior in Veterinary Practice | 2 |
| BIOMED 4110 | Veterinary Cytology | 2 |
| BIOMED 4120 | Principles of Toxicology | 3 |
| BIOMED 4210 | Animal Issues in Disasters | 1 |
| BIOMED 4250 | Human-Animal Bond in Veterinary Practice | 3 |
| BIOMED 4320 | Fundamentals of Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care | 3 |
| BIOMED 4333 | Veterinary Cell Biology | 4 |
| BIOMED 4420 | Canine and Feline Nutrition | 3 |
| BIOMED 4510 | Equine Clinical Anatomy: Forelimbs | 1 |
Minimum Academic Standards: Satisfactory completion of a certificate requires a grade point average of at least 3.0 in BIOMED courses and no grade less than a C in all courses.