Duration
9h Th, 6h Pr, 3h FT
Number of credits
| Master in agricultural bioengineering (120 ECTS) | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
* Introduction: Place of animals in the society with the passing centuries: farm animals producing food, pets, animal as a bioreactor, laboratory animals - Knowledges and accepted values.
* Ethic and welfare of farm animals.
- What is animal welfare? definitions; stress;
- Indicators of animal welfare;
- How to improve farm animal welfare?
* Ethic and welfare of laboratory animals.
- Fields of application: teaching, fundamental research including transgenesis; applied research (drugs and vaccines; food and feed additives; pharmacotoxicology; cosmetics, pesticides, ...);
- 3Rs concept in animal experimentation: replacement, refinement, reduction; examples; limit point; Mepham matrix;
- Alternatives methods: possibilities and limitations.
* Legal aspects: european and belgian legislations; ethic council.
* Small groups research of information and critical analysis of a production systems or of an experimental protocol; alternative production systems; alternative experimental methods;(visits of farms, laboratories, survey, ...).
Oral presentation to the other students and to the teacher followed by an interactive discussion.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The student will be able to make an ethical reflection on the relationship between human and animals, animal welfare in animal production systems and experimentation.
After completing the course the student is expected to
- be familiar with different aspects of animal welfare;
- establish specifications of production systems and experimental protocols respectful of animal welfare;
- give an ethical standpoint on animal production systems and experimental designs.
This course contributes to the acquisition of the following skills:
- Analyze the overall functioning of the system taking into account its internal components and their interactions
- Identify the components of the environmental, socio-economic and legislative context of an agronomic production system
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Students should have a basic knowledge on animal production and production systems.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Lectures : 10h; Personnal Works : 12h; The course is taught in English. The presentations of the students are also in English
Recommended or required readings
Recommandations du Conseil de l'Europe
Directives européennes et législation belge en la matière
Farm Animal Well Being(Ewing, Lay, Von Borall) - Prentice Hall, 1999, 357 pages.
Le bien-être animal - Regard éthique (ouvrage collectif) - Editions du Conseil de l'Europe, 2006, 296 pages.
PowerPoint available on line.
Assessment methods and criteria
Personal work (presentation of the group work, participation to the discussions) (100 %)
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Nadia Everaert
nadia.everaert@uliege.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Different powerpoint sessions with voice registration are accessible on ecampus on the following topics:
Assessment-evaluation
Animal ethics
Animal welfare
Animal experimentation
Assessment subjects
Group work:
Presentation in English Current situation and practice (including legislation) (10-15 min)
- Debate: (15-20 min)
- One student is 'pro'
- Other student is 'contra'
- Convince the audience àeach student needs to choose an opinion and give his arguments
- Last slide: bibliography
Individual work:
'If I was working at the Walloon government on animal welfare, this is what I would change concerning animal farming'
- Define what should be changed and how.
- Make an estimation on the economic impact for the farmer (e.g. changing stocking density, reduces profit with how much? Prices should go up with how much?
- How can you set up a control system to investigate if the animals are reared in the correct way?
- Presentation of 15 minutes, in English
Assessment methods
The students will make a group or individual assessment. The topics and expectation are explained in a powerpoint (with voice registration).
The students communicate their choice to be by email on friday 24/4/2020
We will have a collaborate-discussion, on ecampus, to discuss their ideas on the topic on monday 27/4/2020
The students send in their pdf on their powerpoint presentation by Saturday 9/5/2020
The students present their powerpoint via collaborate on Monday 11/5/2020.
For collaborate: the students will receive an invitation by email.
Contacts
nadia.everaert@uliege.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Contacts
Items online
Notes on line
PowerPoint available on ecampus. Electronic version of documents on MyULg.