James Cook University
5 years full-time
Become equipped with the skills to diagnose, treat, manage, and prevent disease in a wide range of companion, production, aquatic and native animals. Discover how you can promote and optimise the health and welfare of communities, animals and their environment.
English, Mathematical Methods, Chemistry (Units 3/4,C). Recommended Knowledge: Biology (Units 3/4,C). Special entry requirements apply.
You will gain strong foundational knowledge throughout your degree, as well as specialised rural and tropical veterinary science skills. You'll learn how to improve the health status of individual animals and populations and analyse, formulate and communicate solutions to complex disease problems using a One Health approach. You'll gain hands-on experience in implementing and monitoring treatment and management plans as well as see demonstrations of consultation with clients, carers, animal owners and communities.
JCU's unique location means that students gain experience with issues and animals that are relevant to working in rural, remote, and tropical regions. This, combined with the practical, hands-on approach to learning, means that JCU graduates are ready for the real world the day they graduate.
JCU Veterinary Science (Honours) graduates are internationally recognised as multi-skilled, highly competent professionals who are committed to the health and welfare of animals. Graduates can work in a variety of settings, including veterinary clinics, veterinary hospitals, government, universities, pharmaceutical industries, agriculture, biosecurity, quarantine, public health, zoos and wildlife sanctuaries.
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