The course of Zootechnics held its first selection in the 2012 Vestibular examination.
More than 50 openings will be offered each year. The course will have a duration of 10 semesters (5 years) a workload of 200 obligatory credits (3000 hours), 6 complementary credits (90 hours), 20 elective credits (300 hours), plus 570 hours of supervised practice and 60 hours of Course Conclusion Work (Thesis)totaling a workload of 4020 hours for the title of Zootechnician.
The goal of Zootechnics course is to train professionals with a solid theoretical-methodological basis, which will enable a critical and creative professional performance, capable of satisfying multiple demands in the context of animal production.As well as providing a solid scientific and technological knowledge, endowed with ethical, political and humanist consciousness, with a clear vision of the social, political, environmental and cultural economic development of Brazil and the world.
The zootechnician is active in public and private, educational, for research and extension institutions, developing the organization, management and assistance in animal production:
· in promoting the improvement of herds, covering bioclimatological and genetic knowledge to produce precocious, durable and highly productive animals;
· in nutrition and animal feeding using knowledge on nutrients and their different origins in order to satisfy both the requirements and their proper physiological development;
· in animal breeding strategies to optimize their productive potential;
· in the development of evaluation, classification and grading techniques of products and animal byproducts, seeking for quality, food safety and economy;
· in promoting animal production systems that respect biodiversity and environmental balance.