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Institution
University of Cundinamarca
Program Name
Animal Science
Degree to be awarded
Animal scientist
Educational level
Undergraduate
Type of training
University Graduate
Methodology
In-person
Academic Credits
150 credits
Estimated duration
9 semesters
Learning path
Agricultural Sciences
Semester 1
- Introduction to Animal Production Systems
- Systems Thinking
- Integrated Biology
- Integrated Chemistry
- Computer and Telematics Tools
- Ecology and Natural Resources
- Diagnostic and Leveling Course in Argumentative Reasoning
- Diagnostic and Remedial Course in Communication and Critical Thinking
Agricultural Sciences
Semester 2
- Comparative Anatomy
- Plant Botany and Morphophysiology
- Metabolic Biochemistry
- Applied Mathematics
- 21st Century Citizen Diagnostic and Leveling Program
- Foreign Language Diagnostic and Placement Test
- Argumentative Reasoning
- Communication and Critical Thinking
Agricultural Sciences
Semester 3
- Animal Biophysics and Physiology
- Microbiology
- Applied Statistical Models
- Animal Genetic Resources
- 21st Century Citizen
- Foreign Language
- Communication and Critical Thinking
Agricultural Sciences
Semester 4
- Integrated Animal Reproduction
- Edaphology and Plant Nutrition
- Strategic Production and Biotechnology of Forage Crops
- Molecular Biology and Genetics
- Agroecological Systems and Natural Resource Management
- Foreign Language
Agricultural Sciences
Semester 5
- Animal Nutrition
- Applied Animal Breeding
- Agricultural Economics
- Sociology and Rural Development
- Parasitology and Animal Health
- Foreign Language
- Diagnostic and Leveling Course in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Diagnostic and Leveling Course in Science, Technology, and Innovation
Agricultural Sciences
Semester 6
- Polygastric feeding
- Monogastric Nutrition
- Agricultural Marketing
- Animal Welfare
- Rural Designs and Geographic Information Systems
- 21st Century Generation Lecture Chair
- Foreign Language
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Science, Technology and Innovation
Agricultural Sciences
Semester 7
- Bovine Production Systems
- Aquaculture Production Systems
- Swine Production Systems
- Minor Species Production Systems I
- Equine Production Systems
- In-Depth Study I
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Science, Technology and Innovation
Agricultural Sciences
Semester 8
- Production Systems of Minor Species II
- Food Science and Technology
- Poultry Production Systems
- Advanced Studies II
- Social Responsibility of the Zootechnician
- Integrated Project Management
- Science, Technology and Innovation
Agricultural Sciences
Semester 9
- Advanced Studies III
- Graduation Project
Specialization tracks
Specialization tracks allow you to tailor your education to specific areas of interest. Through specialized modules and course content, you can strengthen your skills, deepen your mastery of key topics in your discipline, and move forward with greater clarity in your academic and professional pursuits.
- Specialization Track: Science, technology, and innovation in milk production and processing.
- Specialization Track: Reproduction and genetic improvement of species of zootechnical interest.
Mission and Vision
Mission: To train zootechnicians, comprehensive managers of animal production systems who promote sustainable development, clean production, competitiveness, and the strengthening of agricultural production chains through processes of knowledge generation, social interaction, and business management, with local and translocal impact.
Vision: In the medium term, the animal science program will be recognized as a high-quality program, whose graduates will actively participate as transforming agents of the agricultural sector in multiple translocal contexts and with a criterion of sustainability.
Standing out in the long term for its impact in national and international arenas in the generation of knowledge with social responsibility, and innovative proposals for the improvement of animal production systems, consistent with the challenges of life preservation and consonant with the dynamics of the context.
Professional Profile
The Zootechnician from UCundinamarca can perform in accordance with changing context dynamics, with principles of sustainability, as a transforming agent in animal production systems and agricultural production chains, as a knowledge and/or business manager, to improve quality of life, food security, and the reconstruction of the social fabric.
Occupational Profile
The Zootecnista graduated from UCundinamarca will work as a transmodern leading manager of their own company and a dynamizer of organizations dedicated to animal production, participating in the development and application of scientific knowledge, innovating production processes aimed at optimizing environmental resources with social responsibility.
Expected Learning Outcomes of the Program
- Understand animal production systems from systems thinking and its dimensions.
- Establish animal production plans and/or projects through the generation of strategies for genetics and improvement programs, nutrition and feeding, reproduction, preventive health, livestock management and administration, which contribute to the improvement of human quality of life, ecosystem care and conservation, and/or goods and services linked to agricultural production systems; using tools appropriate to the context.
- Participate in the managerial, organizational, and productive management of livestock enterprises, with the objective of increasing production rates and technical and economic productivity.
- Comprehensive planning of the physical, technical, human, economic, and financial resources involved in the production, processing, marketing, and commercialization processes of animal-origin products and by-products.
- Lead strategies for research, production, processing, transformation, industrialization, and commercialization of products, by-products, and services in animal production systems.
- Structure study programs, agroecological use and conservation of species with productive potential, proposing viable alternatives for the sustainable development of natural resources.
- Participate in technology transfer, rural extension, and social innovation processes focused on animal production systems and rural development, contributing to the qualification of the different stakeholders linked to livestock production.
- Adapt knowledge, skills, and strengths to the changing potentials and needs of the environment, taking the real context as an opportunity for transformation.
- Lead the formulation of rural development policies, improvement of the quality of life, and strengthening of the livestock subsector with criteria of social responsibility.
- Incorporate advanced digital tools and context-appropriate technologies into animal production systems.
Professional Teacher Profiles
Judith Castiblanco Beltrán
Animal Scientist, Universidad de La Salle. Specialist in Animal Genetics and Breeding, University of Applied and Environmental Sciences (UDCA).
Historical Overview of the Program
| Program Beginnings | Educational Project | MEDIT model | Registration Renewal | Future Projection |
| 2013 | 2016 | Update | 2022 | Animal Science |
| The origins of the Animal Science Program at the Ubaté campus date back to 2013, when the Ministry of Education (MEN) granted the first accredited registration under Resolution #13788 of October 2013, valid for 7 years, with a curriculum comprising 155 credits and a duration of 10 semesters. | Based on its institutional educational mission statement (2016), the University of Cundinamarca emerges as a social organization dedicated to knowledge and translocal, transmodern, democratic, public, and autonomous learning—one that educates for life, upholds democratic values, civility, and freedom, and that functions as a multidimensional field of learning (Muñoz, 2018). | “Through ”curricular reimagining”—a concept proposed by the Transmodern Digital Educational Model (MEDIT)—the University of Cundinamarca has established a series of processes to update the methodology and disciplinary approach of the Multidimensional Field of Learning. | The Animal Science program at the Ubaté Campus is undergoing a restructuring and is coordinating with the Ministry of Education (MEN) on the process of renewing its accredited status, which was granted by Resolution #011553 dated June 23, 2022. | Through the Ubaté Branch Animal Science Program, the University promotes education for life, democratic values, civility, and the freedom enshrined in its educational model, and the role of each participant within it, as part of an effort to overcome the barriers and limitations created by the current situation, in order to address the challenges of a translocal world that requires problem-solving by our students and future animal science professionals. |
Team
Contact
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Ubaté Sectional
(+57 1) 855 3055 Ext. 110 – 114
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
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