Courses
ANSC 1001 - Orientation to Animal Science
(1.0 cr; Prereq-Incoming fr; S-N or Aud, fall, every year)
Current issues, career planning, professional development. Interviews with faculty and other resource persons.
Instructor: Anthony Seykora
ANSC 1007 - Horse in Your Backyard
(2.0 cr; =[AGRO 1007]; A-F or Aud)
Role of horses in society. How to keep a horse well fed and healthy. Nutrition, feedstuffs, pasture, health. How to seek/interpret information on vaccination, worming, nutrition, grazing management, hay selection, manure handling, and use of dietary feed additives/enhancers.
Instructor: Marcia Hathaway
ANSC 1011 - Animals and Society (C/PE, ENVT)
(3.0 cr; fall, every year)
Controversial issues in animal agriculture including animal products in the human diet. Livestock/human competition for limited resources. Animal behavior, welfare, and rights. Organic vs. conventionally-produced food. Livestock integration into sustainable resource utilization.
Instructor: Anthony Seykora
ANSC 1021 - Avian Sampler
(1.0 cr; spring, every year)
Aspects of avian biology. Planned environmental/conservation practices. Wildlife rehabilitation programs for maintaining healthy populations of wild birds in Minnesota. Emphasizes care, management, and health considerations of avian species such as domestic poultry, raptors, and companion birds.
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ANSC 1101 - Introductory Animal Science
(4.0 cr; spring, every year)
Fundamental concepts of animal breeding, physiology, nutrition, and management as they apply to the production of beef, dairy, horses, poultry, sheep, swine, and other livestock.
Instructor: Anthony Seykora
ANSC 1403 - Companion Animal Nutrition and Care
(3.0 cr; spring, every year)
For those without animal or nutrition training who have an interest in animal care. Nutrition of healthy animals and factors including behavior, environmental conditions, food type and availability. Focus on companion animals.
Instructor: Marshall Stern
ANSC 1511 - Food Animal Products for Consumers
(3.0 cr; =[FSCN 1511]; fall, every year)
Introduction to the compositional variation, processing, selection, storage, cookery, palatability, nutritional value, and safety of red meat, poultry, fish, and dairy products.
Instructor: Kyle Rozeboom
ANSC 2001 - Animal Science Orientation for Transfer Students
(1.0 cr; Prereq-Animal science major; S-N only, fall, every year)
The major, the faculty. Clubs, organizations, resources. Career exploration/preparation. Internship opportunities, working on a resume, developing interview skills.
ANSC 2011 - Dairy Cattle Judging
(2.0 cr; Prereq-#; fall, every year)
Evaluation of dairy animals on the basis of physical appearance, including classes of heifers and cows from the six major dairy breeds. Held in conjunction with the Minnesota State Fair. Training in oral reasons.
Instructor: Leslie Hansen
ANSC 2012 - Livestock and Carcass Evaluation
(3.0 cr; spring, every year)
Evaluation of cattle, swine, and sheep. Breeding stock evaluated on live appraisal, performance records, and breeding values. Market animals evaluated, graded, and priced on physical appearance followed by evaluation and grading of their carcasses.
ANSC 2013 - Beginning Livestock Judging
(2.0 cr; Prereq-Soph or jr or sr, #; &2012 recommended; fall, odd years)
Visual evaluation of beef cattle, swine, and sheep for type, muscling, degree of finish, structure, and soundness. Short oral presentations. Preparation for collegiate livestock judging competition.
ANSC 2014 - Poultry Judging
(2.0 cr; spring, every year)
How to distinguish subtle differences among poultry and poultry products. Intact eggs, broken-out eggs, chicken carcasses, live chickens. Students compete for position on four-person team representing the U of M at U.S. Poultry & Egg Association’s Collegiate Poultry Judging.
Instructor:
ANSC 2055 - Horse Health Management
(2.0 cr; fall, every year)
Theory/practice related to horse health/disease. Strategies for prevention of disease. Environmental hygiene, facility design, parasite control, prevention of infectious disease through vaccination. Major infectious, parasitic, developmental, nutritional, and metabolic diseases of North American horses. Physical therapies to treat injuries and maintain performance of sport horses. Body condition scoring, estimation of body weight, administration of vaccines and parasite control products, intramuscular injections. Bandaging methods, physical exam, first aid techniques. Lectures, labs, field trips.
Instructor: Christie (Malazdrewich) Ward
ANSC 2211 - Biometrics for Livestock (MATH)
(3.0 cr; =[STAT 3011, STAT 5021]; Prereq-Math 1031 or higher; spring, every year)
Descriptive statistics. Elementary probability. Correlation. Regression. ANOVA. Statistics as applied to livestock.
Instructor: Leslie Hansen
ANSC 2401 - Animal Nutrition
(3.0 cr; fall, every year)
Classification/function of nutrients. Use of nutrients for body maintenance, growth, egg production, gestation, and lactation. Comparative study of digestive systems of farm animal species.
Instructor: Marshall Stern
ANSC 3007 - Equine Nutrition
(3.0 cr; Prereq-2401; spring, every year)
Principles of nutrition. Emphasizes unique aspects of equine nutrition. Nutritional needs of healthy animals. Factors in feeding. Animal behavior, growth/development, physiological status, environmental conditions, food type, availability. How physiology of horse's gastrointestinal tract, utilization of feedstuffs, and horse's nutritional requirements interrelate. Balanced rations, nutritional related ailments. Pasture management, forage selection, use of dietary feed additives/enhancers.
Instructor: Marcia Hathaway
ANSC 3052 - Equine Anatomy and Exercise Physiology
(4.0 cr; Prereq-Jr or sr; 3301 recommended; fall, every year)
Interrelationship between physical structure/function. Emphasizes ways in which specialized aspects of anatomy/physiology contribute to unique athletic performance capabilities of horse.
Instructor: Christie (Malazdrewich) Ward
ANSC 3141 - Advanced Dairy Judging
(1.0 cr; Prereq-2011 or #; spring, every year)
Training in presentation of oral reasons in dairy cattle judging. Selected students from this course participate in fall intercollegiate dairy judging contest.
Instructor: Leslie Hansen
ANSC 3142 - Advanced Livestock Judging
(2.0 cr; Prereq-2013 or #)
Visual evaluation of beef cattle, swine, and sheep for muscling, finish, structure, and soundness. Use of production (growth and reproduction) records in evaluation. Oral presentations. Preparation for national collegiate livestock judging contest.
ANSC 3143 - Meat Judging and Grading
(2.0 cr; Prereq-1511, #)
In-depth training in beef, pork, and lamb judging, writing reasons, and beef carcass grading and specifications. Field trips to packing plants. Students selected from course participate in intercollegiate meats judging contests.
ANSC 3144 - Advanced Poultry Judging
(1.0 cr; Prereq-2014; fall, every year)
How to judge live poultry and poultry products. Students compete for a position on four-person team representing U of M at National Collegiate Poultry Judging contest.
Instructor:
ANSC 3203W - Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen (C/PE, ENVT, WI)
(3.0 cr; =[AGRO 3203W, AGUM 2224]; spring, every year)
Ecological/ethical concerns of food production systems in global agriculture: past, present, and future. Underlying ethical positions about how agroecosystems should be configured. Interactive learning using decision cases, discussions, videos, other media.
Instructors: Steve Simmons, Michael White
ANSC 3221 - Animal Breeding
(4.0 cr; fall, every year)
Application of qualitative and quantitative genetics to animal breeding. Concepts of livestock improvement through selection and mating programs.
Instructor: Anthony Seykora
ANSC 3301 - Systemic Physiology
(4.0 cr; Prereq-[BIOL 1009 or equiv], [CHEM 1011 or CHEM 1021]; fall, every year)
Introduction to physiology of neural, circulatory, respiratory, immune, and digestive systems of domestic animals.
Instructor: Jonathan Wheaton
ANSC 3305 - Reproductive Biology in Health and Disease
(4.0 cr; Prereq-Biol 1009 or equiv; fall, spring, every year)
Reproductive organ functions, fertilization, estrous cycle and endocrine control, reproductive efficiency, problems/principles of artificial insemination. Anatomy, physiology, biochemistry of mammary gland. Mammary growth, initiation/maintenance of lactation, milk synthesis, factors influencing lactation curve.
Instructor: Laura Mauro
ANSC 3307 - Artificial Insemination Techniques
(1.0 cr; Prereq-3305 recommended, #; S-N or Aud, spring, every year)
Hands-on training and techniques of artificial insemination at an off-campus laboratory setting. Proper techniques of AI and semen handling, and criteria for selection of bulls.
Instructor: Anthony Seykora
ANSC 3501 - Farm Animal Environment
(3.0 cr; Prereq-[2301, jr] or #; spring, every year)
Biological/physical processes involved in adjustment of animals to ambient environments. Applications to farm animal management.
Instructor: Mohamed El Halawani
ANSC 3509 - Animal Biotechnology
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Biol 4003 or #; spring, every year)
Scientific, social, and ethical issues related to current topics in animal biotechnology. Introduction to molecular genetics. Use of animals as biological reagents/tools, topics in reproductive biotechnology, methods for genetic modification of animals.
Instructor: Scott Fahrenkrug
ANSC 3511 - Animal Growth and Development
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Biol 1009; spring, every year)
Principles of animal growth. Interaction of nutrition, hormones, exercise, heredity, and disease in regulating growth.
Instructor: Michael White
ANSC 3609 - Animal Production Systems
(2.0 cr; fall, spring)
Systems approach to decision making and problem solving in production enterprises. Planning, long range goal setting, production analysis, risk analysis, and cost-benefit analysis. Quality-of-life issues.
Instructors: Samuel Baidoo, Jeffrey Reneau
ANSC 4011 - Dairy Cattle Breeding
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3221; spring, every year)
Applying quantitative genetic principles to the breeding of dairy cattle. Primary emphasis on the evaluation of males, females, and systems of mating. Rates of genetic improvement with and without AI.
Instructor: Leslie Hansen
ANSC 4092 - Special Problems in Animal Science
(1.0 - 4.0 cr [max 4.0 cr]; Prereq-#; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Research in an area of animal science under the supervision of a faculty member. Written report on the research is required.
Instructor: Anthony Seykora
ANSC 4093 - Tutorial in Animal Science
(1.0 - 4.0 cr [max 4.0 cr]; Prereq-#; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Informally structured to encourage in-depth study of specific disciplines in animal science. Pertinent readings; preparation of written essays of high quality required.
ANSC 4096 - Professional Experience Program: Internship
(1.0 - 3.0 cr [max 6.0 cr]; Prereq-CFANS undergrad, #, complete internship contract available in CFANS Career Services before enrolling; UC only; S-N or Aud, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Supervised professional experience in animal industries and farm enterprise systems with study of various aspects of the industry and related fields; evaluative reports and consultations with faculty advisers and employers.
Instructor: Steve Carnes
ANSC 4099 - Special Workshop in Animal Science
(1.0 - 4.0 cr [max 4.0 cr]; fall, spring, every year)
Workshops on a variety of topics in animal science. Consult Class Schedule or department for offerings. Topics may use guest lecturers/experts.
Instructor: Anthony Seykora
ANSC 4102 - Equine Management
(3.0 cr; Prereq-2102; spring, every year)
Fundamentals of horse management. Record keeping (traditional, computer based). Marketing, sales techniques. Legal aspects (e.g., contracts, zoning, liability, insurance). A management project involves establishing, maintaining, improving an equine business.
Instructor: Nicky Overgaard
ANSC 4401 - Swine Nutrition
(3.0 cr; Prereq-2401, 3511 recommended; fall, spring, summer, every year)
A comprehensive review of major considerations in providing optimum, cost-effective nutrition to swine in all stages of production.
Instructor: Gerald Shurson
ANSC 4403 - Ruminant Nutrition
(3.0 cr; Prereq-2401; spring, every year)
Nutrient requirements of ruminants, physiology of digestion in ruminants, nutrient content of feedstuffs, primarily forages; energy utilization, protein and nonprotein nitrogen utilization; nutritional disorders; formulation of adequate rations.
Instructor: Marshall Stern
ANSC 4404 - Applied Dairy Nutrition
(2.0 cr; Prereq-AnSc 4403 recommended)
Application of nutrition principles to dairy cow nutrition. Nutrient requirements of dairy cows, feed ingredient selection/usage, formulation/evaluation of dairy cow rations using computer programs. Case study analysis of feeding programs used on dairy farms.
Instructor: James Linn
ANSC 4405 - Poultry Nutrition
(3.0 cr; Prereq-2401; fall, every year)
Nutrient requirements of chickens and turkeys; feed composition and use in formulation of adequate diets. Role of feed additives. Least cost formulations, nutritional interrelationships, and feeding systems.
ANSC 4601 - Pork Production Systems Management
(4.0 cr; spring, every year)
Interrelationships of business, marketing, and biological performance of pigs in various types of production systems.
Instructor: Gerald Shurson
ANSC 4602 Sheep Production Systems Management
(4.0 cr; Prereq-2401; 3221 recommended)
Nutrition, management, genetics, reproduction, and health as they relate to sheep production. Application of production records, selection, and marketing technology. Review of current sheep research, social concerns, consumer affairs and industry practices. Field trips to sheep farms and related industries.
ANSC 4603 - Beef Production Systems Management
(4.0 cr; fall, every year)
How to resolve problems and manage cow-calf, stocker, or feedlot operations. Various segments of the beef industry and their current challenges. Nutrition, reproduction, genetics, and health as they relate to beef cattle production. Students evaluate a beef cattle enterprise and contribute solutions to problems in areas of marketing, selection, reproduction, nutrition, or health management.
Instructor: Alfredo DiCostanzo
ANSC 4604 - Dairy Production Systems Management
(4.0 cr; spring, every year)
Practical applications of principles of animal breeding, nutrition, physiology, reproduction, housing, and economics in a problem solving context. Decision-cases, farm visits, field diagnostic techniques labs.
Instructor: Jeffrey Reneau
ANSC 4605 - Poultry Production Systems Management
(4.0 cr; Prereq-2401; 4405 recommended; fall, even years)
Physiology, genetics, diseases, nutrition of poultry and relation to current management practices for production of eggs, broilers, and turkeys. Technical and practical phases of production and marketing in relation to their underlying principles. Visits to commercial production units.
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ANSC 4611 - Advanced Pork Production Systems Management
(2.0 cr; Prereq-& 4609; 4601; spring, every year)
Analysis of pork production systems using case studies and visits to modern pork production operations.
Instructor: Gerald Shurson
ANSC 4613 - Advanced Beef Production Systems Management
(2.0 cr; Prereq-4609, &4603, sr; fall, every year)
Half semester course. Student enterprise-analysis teams evaluate a beef cattle enterprise and contribute solutions to problems in areas of marketing, selection, reproduction, nutrition, or health management.
Instructor: Alfredo DiCostanzo
ANSC 4614 - Advanced Dairy Production Systems Management
(2.0 cr; Prereq-& 4609; 4604; spring, every year)
Analysis of dairy production systems using case studies and visits to actual dairies.
Instructor: Jeffrey Reneau
ANSC 5099 - Special Workshop in Animal Science
(1.0 - 6.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; Prereq-#; A-F or Aud, spring, every year)
Topics vary. See Class Schedule or department. Topics may use guest lectures/experts.
ANSC 5200 - Statistical Genetics and Genomics
(4.0 cr; =[CMB 5200]; Prereq-[Stat 3021 or equiv], [Biol 4003 or equiv]; fall, every year)
Linkage analysis for mapping genes with codominance, dominance, imprinting inheritance modes, linkage/transmission disequilibrium. Radiation hybrid mapping. Parentage testing. Testing/estimation of candidate gene effects. Experimental designs, statistical analysis for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) with additive, dominance, and epistasis effects, and for gene expression studies using microarrays. QTL analysis of gene expression data for mapping transcriptional regulation factors.
Instructor: Yang Da
ANSC 8111 - Genetic Improvement of Animals
(3.0 cr; Prereq-#)
Application of population genetics to livestock breeding; selection index theory and practice; basis of relationships and covariances among relatives; and selection based on multiple sources of information.
ANSC 8121 - Linear Model Methods
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Stat 5021)
Techniques and statistical tools for analysis of data. Matrix manipulation, least-squares procedures, correction for environmental factors, estimation of components of variance, and standard errors of estimates.
ANSC 8131 - Molecular Biology Techniques
(3.0 cr; =[CMB 8335]; Prereq-BioC 4332, Biol 4003; spring, every year)
Basic theory and current methodologies of molecular biology and recombinant DNA technology. Lab work includes DNA and RNA hybridization, gene transfer, and polymerase chain reaction techniques. Primarily for students with limited exposure to molecular biology.
Instructor: Douglas Foster
ANSC 8134 - Ethical Conduct of Animal Research
(2.0 cr; =[VMED 8134]; Prereq-Grad student or prof school student or #; A-F or Aud)
Ethical considerations in use of animal subjects in agricultural, veterinary, and biomedical research. Federal, state, and University guidelines relating to proper conduct for acquisition/use of animals for laboratory, observational, epidemiological, and clinical research. Regulatory requirements, bases for what is deemed proper conduct. Societal impact on scientific investigations utilizing animal subjects.
Instructors: Brian Crooker, Thomas Molitor, Mark Rutherford
ANSC 8194 - Research in Animal Genetics
(1.0 - 3.0 cr [max 3.0 cr]; Prereq-#; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Research in quantitative genetics, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, and other areas related to animal breeding.
Instructor: Leslie Hansen
ANSC 8211 - Animal Growth and Development
(3.0 cr; Prereq-#; spring, every year)
Whole body growth of animals, bone, and adipose tissue; structure, function, differentiation, and development of tissues; mode of action of hormones, growth factors, and growth promoters.
Instructors: William Dayton, Marcia Hathaway
ANSC 8294 - Research in Muscle Chemistry and Physiology
(1.0 - 3.0 cr [max 3.0 cr]; Prereq-#; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Research in selected areas.
ANSC 8311 - Animal Bioenergetics
(3.0 cr; Prereq-BioC 4331 recommended, #; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
Integrated systems approach to energy metabolism of animals. Application of classical techniques of calorimetry and comparative slaughter, development of systems for expressing energy content of feeds, and techniques for measuring whole body and organ metabolism of specific nutrients. Offered alternate years.
ANSC 8312 - Protein Metabolism
(3.0 cr; Prereq-BioC 4331; A-F or Aud)
Basic and applied concepts of protein metabolism in farm animals.
ANSC 8320 - Concepts and Developments in Nutritional Physiology
(3.0 cr [max 6.0 cr]; Prereq-#; A-F or Aud, spring, every year)
Review and critical evaluation of pertinent scientific literature.
ANSC 8330 - Concepts and Developments in Animal Nutrition
(1.0 - 2.0 cr [max 2.0 cr]; Prereq-#; A-F or Aud, fall, every year)
Review, critical evaluation of recent research reports.
Instructor: Marshall Stern
ANSC 8333 - FTE: Master's
(1.0 cr; Prereq-Master's student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade, fall, spring, summer, every year)
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ANSC 8340 - Concepts and Developments in Swine Nutrition
(2.0 cr [max 4.0 cr]; Prereq-#; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
Review and critical evaluation of scientific literature.
ANSC 8344 - Mechanisms of Hormone Action
(2.0 cr; Prereq-Course in biochemistry or cell biology or #; fall, even years)
Major signal transduction, apoptosis. Topics incorporate pharmacology, biochemistry, and cell biology of hormone action in relevant physiological systems. Lectures on basic principles. Specialized lectures. Discussion of primary literature.
ANSC 8394 - Research in Animal Nutrition
(1.0 - 3.0 cr [max 3.0 cr]; Prereq-#; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Research in selected areas: topics and animal species determined by consultation.
ANSC 8411 - Physiology of Reproduction
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3305 or equiv; A-F or Aud)
Emphasis is on gametogenesis, conception, and implantation.
ANSC 8421 - Physiology of Fertilization and Gestation
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3305 or #)
Physiological events occurring during gametogenesis; capacitation and fertilization; period of the embryo; period of the fetus; and parturition.
ANSC 8431 - Immunoreproduction
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3305 or #)
Blood groups and polymorphic proteins affecting reproduction; immunoglobulin formation; antigens of semen, ova, and genital secretions; immunopathology; maternal-fetal incompatibility; and antibodies to hormones.
ANSC 8444 - FTE: Doctoral
(1.0 cr; Prereq-Doctoral student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade, fall, spring, summer, every year)
(No description)
ANSC 8451 - Reproductive Endocrinology
(2.0 cr; Prereq-3305 or 3327 or equiv, BioC 3021; A-F or Aud)
Hormonal regulation of mammalian reproductive cycles and seasonal patterns; nutritional and stress effects on reproductive endocrinology; mechanism of hormone action.
ANSC 8494 - Research in Animal Physiology
(1.0 - 3.0 cr [max 3.0 cr]; Prereq-#; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Individual research under faculty direction. Topic determined by consultation: a specialized aspect of a thesis problem or an independent problem of mutual interest to graduate student and adviser.
ANSC 8510 - Graduate Seminar
(1.0 - 2.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; Prereq-#; S-N or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
Student presentations of literature, proposals, and research results; instructional guidelines and performance evaluation; preparation of visual material.
Instructor: Douglas Foster
ANSC 8594 - Research in Animal Science
(1.0 - 3.0 cr [max 3.0 cr]; Prereq-#; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Research including experimental studies in disciplines associated with animal production and research, with emphasis on interdisciplinary studies.
ANSC 8666 - Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits
(1.0 - 18.0 cr [max 60.0 cr]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; doctoral student who has not passed prelim oral; No Grade, fall, spring, summer, every year)
(No description)
ANSC 8777 - Thesis Credits: Master's
(1.0 - 18.0 cr [max 50.0 cr]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 10 cr total required [Plan A only]; No Grade, fall, spring, summer, every year)
(No description)
ANSC 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral
(1.0 - 24.0 cr [max 100.0 cr]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; No Grade, fall, spring, summer, every year)
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