VT 155 Nutrition and Complementary Therapies (2 credits)

1. Discuss the six major components of an animal diet by listing the sources for the components and identifying the effects that each component has on the body.

2. Compare and contrast the components of a quality animal diet and a poor animal diet.

3. Determine appropriate therapeutic diet for common disease conditions.

4. Communicate the proper nutritional requirements for various stages of life.

5. Compare and contrast commercial diets and homemade diets.

6. Discern different medicinal traditions and cultures.

7. Compare and contrast Western medicine, allopathic medicine, and holistic medicine.

8. Discuss the difference between alternative therapies and complementary therapies.

9. Discuss the common complementary modalities practiced in veterinary medicine.

10. Identify the appropriate role of the veterinary technician while practicing complementary therapies.

Degree Outcomes
Core Ability: Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking Graduates will evaluate, analyze and synthesize information and ideas in order to construct informed, meaningful and justifiable conclusions. Effective Communication Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. Intercultural Engagement Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions. Program Outcome: Utilize and apply the knowledge necessary to function within the scope of practice of a Licensed Veterinary Technician.

Lecture Contact Hours 20
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20