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Combined Introductory Animal Science

Department of Dairy and Poultry Science, Kansas State University, Manhattan

ABSTRACT

An introductory course in the Animal Sciences needs to satisfy several requirements. Contact needs to be maintained with students interested in our areas of interest early in their academic experience. The course should provide sufficient sampling to enable one to become interested in one or more areas of specialization. Material presented should be sufficiently broad to describe the field adequately for one who takes no other Animal Science courses, and yet be sufficiently fundamental to serve as prerequisite to specialized courses in the animal field.

To accomplish these things with one course is difficult. Prerequisites for such a broad spectrum course are out of order, since several would be needed and the course would be pushed too late in the academic experience. Being broad, yet fundamental, is very challenging for the instructor.

Four two-semester-hour interdependent Animal Science courses were introduced into our curriculum in 1963. These are Principles of Animal Science, two hours; Animal Husbandry, two hours; Dairy Science, two hours; and Poultry Science, two hours.