Bachelor of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience Majors
Unit outlines will be available though Find a unit outline two weeks before the first day of teaching for 1000-level and 5000-level units, or one week before the first day of teaching for all other units.
Errata
| Item | Errata | Date |
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| 1. |
The following unit replaces AVBS3003 Wildlife Management: |
21/01/2020 |
| 2. |
Prerequisites have changed for the following unit, they now read: |
10/02/2020 |
| 3. |
Prerequisites have changed for the following unit. They now read: |
28/07/2020 |
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Animal and Veterinary Bioscience |
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Core |
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| All students undertake the following: | |||
| AVBS3000 Professional Development |
6 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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| Students must complete the relevent core units of study from the associated major list below. | |||
| Additional Years 3 and 4 electives may be selected from the Elective List. | |||
Table 1: Animal Genetics and Biotechnology major |
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| Comprises 24 credit points, of which ANSC3105 and (GEGE3004 or GEGE3904) are compulsory. | |||
| ANSC3105 Animal Biotechnology |
6 | P GEGE2X01 or GENE2002 or AVBS2005 or MBLG2X72 |
Semester 2 |
| GEGE3004 Applied Genomics |
6 | A Genetics at 2000 level, Biology at 1000 level, algebra P 6cp of (GEGE2X01 or QBIO2XXX or DATA2X01 or GENE2XXX or MBLG2X72 or ENVX2001 or DATA2X02) N ANSC3107 This unit must be taken by all students in the Genetics and Genomics major. |
Semester 2 |
| and at least two of the following: | |||
| AVBS4003 Wildlife and Evolutionary Genetics |
6 | A Expected background in genetics, genomics and wildlife. P 48cp of 2000-level or 3000-level units N AVBS3004 |
Semester 2 |
| BIOL3018 Gene Technology and Genomics |
6 | P (MBLG2X72 or GEGE2X01 or GENE2002) and 6cp from (MBLG2X71 or BCMB2XXX or QBIO2001 or IMMU2XXX or BIOL2XXX or MEDS2003) N BIOL3918 |
Semester 1 |
| BIOL3918 Gene Technology and Genomics (Adv) |
6 | P A mark of 75 or above in (GEGE2X01 or MBLG2X72 or GENE2002) and a mark of 75 or above in (MBLG2X71 or BIOL2XXX or BCMB2XXX or QBIO2001 or IMMU2XXX or MEDS2003) N BIOL3018 |
Semester 1 |
| GENE4015 Cytogenetics This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
6 | P (BIOM2001 or ENVX2001) and (GENE2001 or GENE2002) |
Intensive July |
Table 2: Animal Health and Disease Major |
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| Comprises 24 credit points: | |||
| AVBS3001 Agents of Disease |
6 | P AVBS2001 |
Semester 1 |
| AVBS3002 Laboratory Disease Investigation This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
6 | A CHEM1XXX and BIOL1XXX and ANSC3103 and ANSC3104 and (ENVX2001 or BIOM2001) P AVBS2001 and AVBS3001 |
Semester 2 |
| AVBS4001 Animal Health and Disease This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
6 | P AVBS2001 and AVBS3001 |
Semester 1 |
| AVBS4004 Food Safety Assessment and Management |
6 | P AVBS3001 and AVBS4001 |
Semester 2 |
Table 3: Animal Production Systems Major |
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| Comprises 30 credit points: | |||
| AVBS2004 Animal Nutrition |
6 | P BIOL1XX7 or AVBS1002 N ANSC3101 Access afterhours to IBM-PC compatible computers that have Microsoft Windows XP or later are advisable. Most of the diet formulation software are Windows Compatible only. |
Semester 2 |
| ANSC3102 Animal Reproduction |
6 | A A background in animal anatomy and physiology P AVBS1002 and AVBS2XXX |
Semester 1 |
| ANSC3105 Animal Biotechnology |
6 | P GEGE2X01 or GENE2002 or AVBS2005 or MBLG2X72 |
Semester 2 |
| ANSC3106 Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science |
6 | P AVBS1002 or BIOL1XX6 |
Semester 2 |
| GEGE3004 Applied Genomics |
6 | A Genetics at 2000 level, Biology at 1000 level, algebra P 6cp of (GEGE2X01 or QBIO2XXX or DATA2X01 or GENE2XXX or MBLG2X72 or ENVX2001 or DATA2X02) N ANSC3107 This unit must be taken by all students in the Genetics and Genomics major. |
Semester 2 |
Table 4: Wildlife Conservation and Management Major |
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| Comprises 24 credit points, of which AVBS3003 and BIOL3007 are compulsory. | |||
| AVBS3003 Wildlife Management This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
6 | P BIOL2032 or BIOL2X2X |
Semester 1 |
| BIOL3007 Ecology |
6 | P [12cp of BIOL2XXX] OR [6cp of BIOL2XXX and (MBLG2X72 or GEGE2X01 or GENE2002)] N BIOL3907 |
Semester 2 |
| and at least two of the following: | |||
| AVBS2004 Animal Nutrition |
6 | P BIOL1XX7 or AVBS1002 N ANSC3101 Access afterhours to IBM-PC compatible computers that have Microsoft Windows XP or later are advisable. Most of the diet formulation software are Windows Compatible only. |
Semester 2 |
| ANSC3102 Animal Reproduction |
6 | A A background in animal anatomy and physiology P AVBS1002 and AVBS2XXX |
Semester 1 |
| ANSC3106 Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science |
6 | P AVBS1002 or BIOL1XX6 |
Semester 2 |
| GEGE3004 Applied Genomics |
6 | A Genetics at 2000 level, Biology at 1000 level, algebra P 6cp of (GEGE2X01 or QBIO2XXX or DATA2X01 or GENE2XXX or MBLG2X72 or ENVX2001 or DATA2X02) N ANSC3107 This unit must be taken by all students in the Genetics and Genomics major. |
Semester 2 |
| AVBS3001 Agents of Disease |
6 | P AVBS2001 |
Semester 1 |
| AVBS4003 Wildlife and Evolutionary Genetics |
6 | A Expected background in genetics, genomics and wildlife. P 48cp of 2000-level or 3000-level units N AVBS3004 |
Semester 2 |