Course Name	Animal Nutrition
Credits	3
Professor(s)	Name	Yang-Ho Choi
	Department	Animal Science

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Objectives

To provide basic knowledge on animal nutrition to pre-vet school students.  The class will thus primarily focus on 1) characteristics of individual nutrients, and 2) roles of nutrients (carbohydrates, lipid, protein and amino acids, minerals and vitamins) in food-producing animals.  Some evidence will be also presented as to how excess or deficiency in these nutrients could lead to pathophysiological conditions in these animals.

MAIN TEXTBOOK and FURTHER READINGS

1) Basic Animal Nutrition and Feeding, 5th Ed., W.G. Pond, D.C. Church, K.R. Pond, and P.A. Schoknecht, Wiley (2005).

2) Applied Animal Nutrition: Feeds and Feeding, 3rd Ed., Peter R. Cheeke, Prentice Hall (2004).

3) Nutritional Biochemistry, 2nd Ed., Tom Brody, Academic Press (1999)

4) Textbook of Biochemistry With Clinical Correlations, 6th Ed., Thomas M. Devlin, Wiley-Liss (2005)

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Assignments:

Grading Scheme: Relative evaluation

Midterm test: 40%

Term test:	50%

Attendance:	10%

COURSE SCHEDULE

Course Outline

Week	Contents

1	1. Introduction to animal nutrition

2	2. Common methods of analysis for nutrients and feedstuffs

3	3.The GI tract and nutrition

4	4. Measurements of feed and nutrient utilization

5	5. Water and Carbohydrates

6	6. Lipids

7	7. Proteins and amino acids

8	8. Energy metabolism

9	9. Minerals 1

10	10. Minerals 2

11	11. Vitamins 1

12	12. Vitamins 2

13	13. Feeding standards and feedstuffs

14	14. Comparative nutrition

15	14. Comparative nutrition

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel: 055-751-5513; e-mail: yhchoi@gnu.kr