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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Students demonstrate skills in the evaluation of a horse's conformation and performance. Students use terminology in the equine industry to describe conformation of individual horses. Students defend their reasoning of equine evaluation through the use of oral and/or written reasons.
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2.00 Credits
A basic course on proper trimming techniques and minor corrective work. Students gain actual experience trimming horses under supervision. Students must provide their own tools.
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2.00 Credits
Students develop basic skills needed for training, preparing, and exhibiting horses in halter, western horsemanship, western pleasure, western riding, and reining. Techniques are presented in a lecture/lab setting, both in the classroom and animal science lab using demonstration animals.
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to educate students in safe and effective equine facilities management. Students will explore equine facility design, record keeping, employee management, and conflict resolution. Areas of evaluation are safety, horse handling, horse husbandry, facility management, and professionalism. Students will have the opportunity to test for certification by the Certified Horsemanship Association (CHA) in Equine Facility Management (EFM).
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2.00 Credits
An introductory course designed for student riders and/or horses who are unprepared for more advanced training or equitation courses. Students set and achieve individual goals with the aid of the instructor. Prerequisite: Students must provide their own horses, which are broken to ride and under control.
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2.00 Credits
A continuation of EQST 1615, a course in which student riders and/or horses have mastered basic techniques. Student riders and horses demonstrate continued refinement of gaits, communication responses, and equitation techniques. Humane equine care is demonstrated and critiqued. Prerequisites: Students must provide their own horses. Completion of EQST 1615 or permission of the instructor.
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2.00 Credits
A continuation of EQST 1550. Students examine breed and association standards for the judging of equine classes. Students also develop vocabulary and utilize proper terminology for the discussion of these equine classes. Equine classes examined in this course include Western Pleasure, Hunter Under Saddle, Reining, Western Riding, Hunter Hack, and Pleasure Driving. Prerequisite: Completion of EQST 1550 and consent of instructor.
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2.00 Credits
Students evaluate a horse's body language, identify how a horse learns, common stereotypic behaviors and key factors for the foundation of training. Students acquire knowledge and valuable skills in horsemanship needed to improve balance, the proper use of aids such as hands, weight, legs and voice, and appropriate cues at all three gaits. Basic training techniques will also be applied throughout the course. Prerequisite: Instructor consent with proctored riding evaluation.
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2.00 Credits
Students acquire and demonstrate the basics of positioning the horse in cutting competition and improve livestock handling skills, horse placement techniques, and horse training techniques. Students will be charged a livestock fee. Prerequisites: Students must have basic riding skills and supply their own horses.
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2.00 Credits
This basic course is designed to help students acquire proper calf roping, heading, and heeling techniques. Students learn to use the appropriate type of rope and the proper basic rope swing for each event. Students demonstrate mental and physical preparation and proper equipment use. At the end of the course, students demonstrate technique improvement.
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