mercredi 24 octobre 2012

Equine Studies at Saint Mary Of The Woods College: Woman Only

By Heather Toms


A non-profit establishment for ladies only Saint-Mary-of-The-Woods-College offers associate, plus bachelor and master degrees. The varsity has a menu of exciting degree courses in subjects related to the arena of horses, including:

General Equine Studies: This major program endows scholars with amazing flexibility that will assist them to go into almost all of the fields linked with the equine industry. Once scholars have made up their minds on their majors, they get help from their counsellors in choosing electives that will be most suitable given the student's future plans. Scholars who've not yet determined further education and professional paths are given lots of scope to explore possibilities while they are going through classes in equine science, riding instruction, training, stable management and business. Scholars can opt for an Equine Studies Bachelor Degree or an Equine Studies Associate Degree. They can also choose to Minor in Equine Studies.

Equine Training & Instruction: This degree course is designed for those students who nurse ambitions about teaching equitation or about developing personal coaching philosophies that they can apply to business and ventures they set up after finishing graduation. This course's subjects include equitation theory, equestrian school design and selection of school horses and their maintenance. Students who complete this course graduate as Bachelors, with an Equine Training & Instruction Degree.

Equine Business Management: This programme is open to all, but specific to students nursing ambitions about building their own business in the equine world. This course lays a wonderful academic footing for scholars and combines it with in depth practical experience. This programme enables students to work on robust plans for business, on market techniques and on managerial skills. Students are also taught legal and financial issues that are relevant to the pony industry.

Therapeutic Riding? The College set up a program for therapeutic riding called 'Mounted Miracles' in 2000. This programme provides top quality horseback therapeutic sessions to people afflicted by a selection of infirmities. Scholars are taught to treat such people by helping them develop avid autonomy, while subjecting them at the same time to physical rehab measures like improving muscle tone through a regime of vigorous coordination and motion.

Scholars are also encouraged to try and get into the College's Equestrian Team. This team is a member of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association and participates in both Eastern and Western style riding competitions all thru the year. The team participates in about 20 events each year. Students who freak out on joy and thrill of competition at shows should join the team, regardless of if they don't have their own horses. In these events, riders and horses are paired thru a draw. This often helps create level playing arenas that may be extraordinarily challenging, because no student is given a pony she has ridden before.

The Varsity owns a phenomenal equestrian facility boasting of features like:

- 55 stalls

- 2 barns

- 2 restrooms

- 3 tack rooms

- 3 offices

- 4 stalls for grooming

- 2 stalls for washing

- A lab building

- An indoor arena of 90 x 150 feet with bleacher seating

- An area for therapeutic riding

- An out of doors arena of 150 x 250 feet

- Two buildings for story announcement

- Space for beachers

- 6 general-use pastures

- 40 acres of prime land.




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