B1568 - Workshop in Animal Metabolism and Management

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Food Animal Metabolism and Management in the Circular Economy (cod. 5814)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will be able to address selected frontier issues and open questions in the field of animal science, circular economy, safety of foods of animal origin, and animal breeding and genetics. The student will be able to critically assess current issues, trends and advancements in relation to the presented topics starting from concrete case studies, and will have an updated knowledge on the most recent perspectives in those fields.

Course contents

During the course, the student will participate to two visits in dairy farms. A total of 48 hours will be dedicated to the seminar given by Dr. Margherita Masi and Dr. Yari Vecchio on “How to write a research essay?”. The aim will be to given useful skills to formulate a proper research question and to organize the research activity. During the workshop students will be asked to write an extended essay, by consulting with a proper query the online research database. The activity will provide robust skills to properly carry out the final master thesis.

Readings/Bibliography

The material proposed, including powerpoint presentations, will be available to students in the platform VIRTUALE (https://virtuale.unibo.it/).

Teaching methods

The workshop will require active involvement of the auditors, consisting of practical activities and peer-to-peer discussions.

Assessment methods

Production and discussion in the classroom with peers of the research essay.

Teaching tools

Seminars will be given in the classroom using PowerPoint presentations, video projectors and Microsoft Teams.

Office hours

See the website of Giulio Visentin