Postgraduate Course: Animal cognition and consciousness (AWAB11016)

Course Outline
School	Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies	College	College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	Motivation, learning and cognition are all fields that provide an underpinning to the study of animal behaviour and animal welfare. The students will be presented with the scientific basis of these areas, with particular reference to animal welfare. This module will also focus on historical and current interpretations of the concept of animal consciousness as well as on experimental approaches to the study of animal consciousness. Implications of the study of animal consciousness for models of animal welfare will be studied as well as basic principles of the moral evaluation of animal use
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Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 42, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 7, External Visit Hours 4, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Revision Session Hours 20, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 125 )
Additional Information (Learning and Teaching)	50% essay 50% exam
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 50 %, Coursework 50 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Assignments and exam.
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Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)	Animal cognition and consciousness		1:00

Learning Outcomes
-Understand how internal and external factors combine to produce motivated behaviour -Understand the methods used to assess animal motivation and how experiments in animal motivation have contributed to animal welfare science -Understand the basic types of learning -Understand the basic types of training -Understand the concepts underlying animal cognition -Understand the concepts of animal consciousness