Required Courses

• EQS 138 - Introduction to Equine Care and Handling Credits: 3
• EQS 148 - Equine Anatomy and Physiology Credits: 3

Certificate Electives

Choose two courses (6 credits) below:

EQS 144 Equine Nutrition and Feeding  

EQS 145 Equine Health Maintenance  

EQS 146 Introductory Equine Field Study  

EQS 242 Equine Reproduction, Evaluation, and Selection  

EQS 248 Equine Pathology  

Program Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

• Apply safe handling techniques, basic care and maintenance techniques, and basic first aid in working with horses.
• Describe the skeletal, muscular, circulatory, respiratory, digestive, urinary, nervous, and endocrine systems of the horse.
• Evaluate a horse’s body condition.
• Take equine vital signs and recognize symptoms of poor health, disease, and infection.