Overview
Key facts
This Zookeeping course from Warnborough College is helpful in excelling you into a career of working with animals.
These are the main teaching points throughout our course:
- Animal Welfare
- Animal Care
- Diet and Nutrition
- Forms of Enrichment to enhance wellbeing
- Captive Breeding
- Enclosure Design
- Research, Education and Conservation in Zoos
Working With Animals – The Reality
There are a lot of courses you can take to prepare you for working with animals. In reality though, the best way to prepare is to combine this online course with some work experience. Work experience is very valuable and can also show some of the key points of this course in a new light. The completion of this course with the addition of work experience will put you well on your way to your dream job!
Places that you may be able to volunteer include:
- Zoos
- Wildlife parks
- Veterinary clinics
- Animal Rehabilitation Centres
- Animal Welfare Centres
- Animal Boarding Centres
- Ecotourism companies
Programme Structure
The duration of this online course is 100 hours. This consists of 9 indepth lessons:
- The Nature and Scope of Zoos
- Occupational Health and Safety in Zoos
- Nutrition and Feeding
- Health
- Reproduction
- Behaviour and Enrichment
- Human-Animal Interactions
- Enclosure Design and Maintenance
- Problem-based Learning Project – Environmental Enrichment
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 4 days
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
More details
- You can start the course whenever is convenient for you.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
- Self-paced
Disciplines
Veterinary Medicine Animal Science Zoology View 75 other Short Courses in Animal Science in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
You will be studying from home and have access to support from our qualified tutors. Practical exercises and research tasks will be set at the end of each lesson – including an assignment. You will submit this assignment to your course tutor, who will mark your work and give you constructive feedback and suggestions.
Tuition Fee
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International
395 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme during 4 days. -
National
395 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme during 4 days.
Funding
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