Course title
アニマル・ウェルフェア特論   [Animal Welfare, Psychological Wellbeing and Quality of Life in Captive Animals]
Course category		Requirement		Credit	2
Department		Year	1～	Semester	Spring
Course type	Spring	Course code	05MS5223
Instructor(s)
武田 庄平   [TAKEDA Shohei]
Facility affiliation	Faculty of Agriculture	Office		Email address

Course description

Animal welfare is to consider the way of improving QOL of captive animals. This course set objective as follow; the comprehension of animal sense and behavior, and its roles in our human life, and the acquisition of knowledge for practice proper animal welfare.

Expected Learning

Understanding the concept of animal welfare and connectting the animal welfare to each academic discipline.

Course schedule

1) Learn the history and idea of animal welfare as Western origin concept. Think the state of animal welfare in Japan. 2) Comprehend the important attitude of taking each animal as individual. Learn the sense, normal and abnormal behavior, habit, and others of sentient animal at the position of comparative psychology. 3) Learn the practical animal welfare for livestock and zoo animal.

Prerequisites

There need no special knowledge.

Required Text(s) and Materials

None

References

Will be introduced at class.

Assessment/Grading

Final grading will constitute of 20% for attending no. , 30% for participating the class, and 50% for reports evaluation.

Message from instructor(s)

Course keywords

Many kind of captive animals, animal welfare, QOL, environmental enrichment

Office hours

E-mail to takeda@cc.tuat.ac.jp

Remarks 1

Remarks 2

Related URL

http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~hikaku/takeda/index.html

Lecture Language

Japanese

Language Subject

Last update

3/2/2017 11:20:40 AM