mardi 16 octobre 2012

College of Southern Idaho - Horse Management Courses

By Heather Toms


Twin Falls, Idaho, is the home of the College of Southern Idaho, a public college that offers two-year associate degree programs on various subjects, including Applied Science in Horse Management. Students of this program are enabled to control horses, including their own, and work in numerous fields of the equine industry.

Students of this course have to go through basic classes on subjects like:

- Oral Communication Fundamentals

- General Maths

- English Composition I

- Social Science.

Students are also required to enrol in equine industry-specific courses such as:

- Horse Nutrition. This is a course that teaches scholars the physiology and anatomy of equine digestive systems. It also teaches students on nutrient function classifications and their relation to digestion and absorption, as also to metabolism in the contexts of growth, reproduction and work.

- Horse Reproduction. This course covers the physiology of equine reproductive systems, including hormones, reproductive failures and illnesses, artificial insemination, embryo transfer and the like.

- Equine Judging. This course requires scholars to assess some common horse breeds for performance and conformation. Scholars must submit reasons for their assessments.

- Pony Anatomy/Ailments. Students are required to work on identifying common equine infirmities also their locations, causes and suggested courses of treatment.

- Draft Breeds. This course requires students to survey draft breeds that are common nowadays , with inputs on their history, their characteristic conformation, principles behind recommended harnessing or hitching as well as draft pony management. The course also includes training, show procedures, foaling and breeding components, as also compulsory lab sessions where students discover how to handle, harness, hitch, drive, pack and care for and manage draft horses.

- Horsemanship. Scholars in this course are taught components of natural horsemanship, irrespective of their levels of ability and their riding discipline. They are taught the best way to communicate efficiently with their horses, and how to become natural partners and leaders of their horses. They're instructed on the way to handle their horses, saddle and mount them, and ride them safely.

- Commercial Angles to Pony Raising. In this course, students are taught the fundamentals of business based mostly on horse raising. This course includes sessions on production and marketing, as well as accounting, finance, and law and ethics

- Equitation. Students are offered three progressive levels of equitation classes. The elementary course in Equitation teaches scholars about natural horsemanship and saddling, together with mounting, riding skills and effective communication with the horses. The next level, the intermediate course on equitation, is designed to mentor students who have finished with the elementary course on all aspects of natural horsemanship. The 3rd course is an advanced one, open to scholars well versed in western equitation. This course provides high level and top quality skills which will permit them to train horses better. It is mandatory that students have their own horse for this class.

- English Equitation. This course teaches students without any previous experience in riding English riding basics. Student are required to get hands on experience with grooming horses, as also mounting the horses after saddling and bridling them. A deeper Intermediate equivalent is offered to scholars who are rather more advanced riders. This course is meant for students who have put the basic course on English equitation behind them. This class stresses the importance of the right methods of maintaining posture and balance while riding. It also stresses control and figure eights while at the trot.

Scholars can also take advantage of an advanced course that emphasises show riding.




About the Author:



1 commentaires:

  1. Thanks for providing such comprehensive course description on Horse Management. I find Horse Reproduction a very interesting topic.

    RépondreSupprimer