| Responsible Department | Department of Veterinary Disease Biology | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | BSc. 1 year to MSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level of Course | Joint BSc and MSc | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination oral examination Portfolio Examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: Individual presentation of project report and defence of results and conclusions Weight: 50% report and 50% presentation 7-point scale, internal examiner | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | The course is part of the MSc. programme Aquaculture which has existed since 2006 and is a cooperation with UMB, Oslo, Norway og SLU, Umeå, Sweden and Holar Aquacultural College in Iceland. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 1 Week Structure: A Tuesdays and Thursdays | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| The course includes theoretical and practical teaching concerning various aquaculture types (freshwater pond culture, mariculture, recirculated systems) and various natural aquatic biotopes. Additional topics treated are water quality aspects, environmental aspects of aquaculture, fish welfare, fish physiology, nutrition, feed technology, fish immunology, vaccinology, parasitology, virology and bacteriology. Practical aspects concerning sampling and diagnosis have high priority. Focus will be placed on prophylactic aspects and management methods. Classical and molecular methods will be applied in the practical exercises. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching includes lectures, seminars, practical exercises, excursions (to fish farming sites, farming industries, natural resorts, and feed production facilities) and project work. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| The aim of the course is to educate students in processes associated with production of aquatic organisms. Special emphasis will be placed on diseases connected with the production. The course will educate the students to be able to evaluate and suggest solutions to various aquaculture problems with special emphasis on disease aspects. Thus, basic principles in aquaculture techniques and methods for determining fish diseases will be obtained and make the students able to solve questions within these fields.The students will be educated in control methods with emphasis on prophylaxis. The students will apply theories and principles of fish pathology to new areas and problems in new contexts. The students will cooperate diagnostic methods for identification of parasitic, bacterial and viral pathogens. They will expand the applicability of the methods by including theories and methods also for new, complex and un-predictable situations. They will predict health related aspects of fish production systems according to new situations under different abiotic and biotic conditions. They will make ethical considerations of problems in fish disease research and aquacultural enterprises. Discuss and reflect on legislative and ethical problems related to aquaculture and fish disease management. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Literature | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Buchmann, K. (2007) An introduction to fish parasitological methods - classical and molecular techniques. Biofolia, Frederiksberg, Denmark. Buchmann, K., Bresciani, J., Pedersen, K., Ariel, E., Dalsgaard, I., Madsen, L (2009) Fish Diseases. Biofolia, Frederiksberg, Denmark Handouts and papers on fish physiology, nutrition, anatomy, environment, aquacultural techniques, farm design and production 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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