| Responsible Department | Department of Veterinary Disease Biology | ||||||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | BSc. 2 year to MSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Level of Course | Joint BSc and MSc | ||||||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination oral examination Practical Examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: The students will produce a project report to be evaluated and subsequently they will present and defend their work individually. Hereby individual students will be evaluated Weight: The student evaluation is based 100% on the oral examination pass/fail, internal examiner | ||||||||||||||||||
| Requirement for Attending Exam | Submission of project report | ||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures, practical exercises, seminars, excursions and project work | ||||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 1 Week Structure: A | ||||||||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||||||||
| No Credit Points With | Ingen | ||||||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||||||||
| The course includes theoretical and practical teaching in aquaculture types, freshwater pond cultures, mariculture, recirculated systems,water quality aspects, environmental aspects of aquaculture activities, fish welfare, aquaculture techniques, fish physiology, nutrition, feed technology, fish immunology, parasitology, bacteriology, virology and vaccinology | |||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching includes lectures, seminars, project work, practical exercises, excursions to aquacultural enterprises. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||||||
| The aim of the course is to educate students in processes associated with production of aquatic organisms. The course will educate the students to be able to evaluate and suggest solutions to various aquaculture problems. Thus, both technical and biological questions should be solved by the students. Knowledge Summarise the production types of different aquaculture enterprises. Describe both low and high technology aquaculture systems. Refer to investigations of fish and fish production systems for normal and abnormal conditions. Show overview of relevant feed items for specific aquaculture systems. Identify breeding strategies in fish farming. Classify the environmental and economical impacts of various fish production systems. Show overview of biotic and abiotic parameters influencing the outcome of aquculture business.Display overview of sampling processes and techniques in order to obtain samples for further processing of fish pathologists. Produce working plans for consultants in aquatic sciences. Classify and evaluate fish welfare problems in aquaculture Skills Work in a laboratory with selected experimental fields within aquaculture subjects. Analyse quality parameters of fish farming and apply these in new areas. Analyse and judge environmental, technical and economical aspects of fish cultures. Put forward theories on improved technologies within the aquaculture area. Communicate broad and narrow fields of aquaculture production to fellow students. Make oral presentations. Write detailed reports on analyses of complex production problems. Competences Make judgments on the relevance of any farm system to a certain environment. Construct theories and/or working plans for solving complex problems in specific aquaculture systems.Make ethical considerations and respond to animal welfare and environmental legislation relevant to aquaculture. Cooperate with fellow students about the carrying out and reporting experimental aquacultural experiments. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Literature | |||||||||||||||||||
| Buchmann, K. & Bresciani, J. (2001). An introduction to parasitic diseases of freshwater trout. DSR Publishers, Frederiksberg, Denmark. Buchmann, K. (2007). An introduction to fish parasitological methods - classical and molecular techniques. BioFolia, Frederiksberg, Denmark Hand-outs and papers on fish physiology, nutrition, anatomy, environment, techniques, fish diseases and aquaculture types. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kurt Buchmann, kub@life.ku.dk, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology/Section for Biomedicine, Phone: 353-32700 Per Walter Kania, pwk@life.ku.dk, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology/Section for Biomedicine, Phone: 353-32740 Alf Skovgaard, alf@life.ku.dk, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology/Section for Biomedicine, Phone: 353-32703 Martin Kristian Raida, mkr@life.ku.dk, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology/Section for Biomedicine, Phone: 353-32701 | |||||||||||||||||||
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