Study Programmes 2015-2016
VETE0466-1  
Animal Welfare
Duration :
10h Th
Number of credits :
Master in veterinary medicine (60 ECTS)1
Lecturer :
Marc Vandenheede
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
Animal Welfare can be defined as a state of dynamic balance between the animal and its environment. Each animal as sentient being has special needs and limited coping abilities. The attempts of the animal to maintain or to adjust this balance may induce physical and mental sufferings, eventually harmful even on a health than on a performance point of view. Human-animal relationships can also be disturbed. Animal Welfare Science enables to enlight the debate concerning Animal Ethics. The place of the veterinarian in in the heart of this debate...
Learning outcomes of the course :
  • Animal Welfare: definition, background, needs, suffering, measure
  • Animal Ethics
  • Production Animal welfare?
  • Pets welfare?
  • Laboratory animals welfare?
  • Captive wild animals welfare?
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
  • Animal structure, working and behaviour
  • Animal Production
  • Pathology
  • Open-mindedness...
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
  • Lectures (10h)
  • Link with another activity ("Veterinary management of animal resources" VETE2032-A-a): debate in a small group on a given topic.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
face-to-face
Recommended or required readings :
See files on "My ULg"
Assessment methods and criteria :
Multiple choice test
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
Contacts :
Marc Vandenheede
University of Liège Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Ethology, Animal Welfare and Ethics
Bd de Colonster, 20 Bât. B43 4000 Liège Belgium
tél.: 32/(0)4/366.41.48 email: Marc.Vandenheede@ulg.ac.be