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Jul 05, 2025
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VT 155 Nutrition and Complementary Therapies (2 credits)
Course Description
Overview of small animal nutrition focusing on therapeutic diets, age related dietary needs, and sound nutritional recommendations. Survey of accepted complementary therapies used in veterinary medicine.
Course Content
Nutritional Characteristics of the Normal and Therapeutic Animal Diet
Traditional, Alternative, and Complementary Therapies
Role of the Veterinary Technician in the Application of Therapeutic Strategies
Student Outcomes
- Describe the nutritional characteristics of the optimal animal diet over the various stages of life.
- Describe the nutritional characteristics of a therapeutic diet.
- Compare and contrast traditional, alternative, and complementary therapies across different cultures.
- Describe the role of the veterinary technician in the application of therapeutic strategies used in the veterinary practice.
Degree Outcomes
Core Ability: 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
Potential Methods
A. Written exams
B. Instructor observation
C. Self-assessment
D. Written presentations
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