Animal Science Career Path Cluster

D. Animal Science Pathway	Units	Academic
In the Animal Science Pathway, students study large, small, and specialty animals. Students explore the necessary elements- such as diet, genetics, habitat, and behavior to create humane, ecologically and economically sustainable animal production systems. The pathway includes the study of animal anatomy and physiology, nutrition, reproduction, genetics, health and welfare, animal production, technology, and the management and processing of animal products and by-products.
3.0 Career Planning and Management- Students understand how to make effective decisions, use career information, and manage personal career plans:
3.1 Know the personal qualifications, interests, aptitudes, information, and skills necessary to succeed in careers	CLF 710 CLF 810	LSS 2.3 WRG 2.5
9.0 Leadership and Teamwork- Students understand effective leadership styles, key concepts of group dynamics, team and individual decision making, the benefits of workforce diversity, and conflict resolution:
9.1 Understand the characteristics and benefits of teamwork, leadership, and citizenship in the school, community, and workplace.	N/A	N/A
9.2 Understand the ways in which preprofessional associations, such as the Future Farmers of America (FFA), and the competitive career development activities enhance academic skills, promote career choices, and contribute to employability.	CLF 510	LSS 2.2 WRG 2.5
9.3 Understand how to organize and structure work individually and in teams for effective performance and attainment of goals.	CLF 532	LSS 1.1; 2.5
9.4 Know multiple approaches to conflict resolution and their appropriateness for a variety of situations in the workplace.	CLF 542	LSS 1.1; 2.5
9.5 Understand how to interact with others in ways that demonstrate respect for individual and cultural differences and for the attitudes and feelings of others.	CLF 532	LSS 1.1; 2.5
9.6 Understand leadership, cooperation, collaboration, and effective decision-making skills and know the opportunities it makes available.	CLF 530	N/A
10.0 Students understand the essential knowledge and skills common to all pathways in the Agriculture and Natural Resources sector:
10.1 Understand the aims, purposes, history, and structure of the FFA student organization, and know the opportunities it makes available.	CLF 510	N/A
10.2 Manage and actively engage in career related, supervised agricultural experience.	CLF 610 CLF 810	WRG 2.5; 2.6 LSS 1.3
10.3 Understand the importance of maintaining and completing the California Agricultural Record Book	CLF 410	ALG 15.0 WRG 2.5

	PATHWAY STANDARDS
D.	Animal Science Pathway	Units	Academic
	In the Animal Science Pathway, students study large, small, and specialty animals. Students explore the necessary elements—such as diet, genetics, habitat, and behavior to create humane, ecologically and economically sustainable animal production systems. The pathway includes the study of animal anatomy and physiology, nutrition, reproduction, genetics, health and welfare, animal production, technology, and the management and processing of animal products and by-products.
D1.0	Students understand the necessary elements for proper animal housing and animal-handling equipment:
D1.1	Understand appropriate space and location requirements for habitat, housing, feed, and water.	CLF 3101	LSS 2.1
D1.2	Understand how to select habitat and housing conditions and materials such as indoor and outdoor housing, fencing materials, air flow/ventilation, and shelters to meet the needs of various animal species.	CLF 3101	LSS 2.1
D1.3	Understand the purpose and the safe and humane use of restraint equipment, such as squeeze chutes, halters, and twitches.	CLF 3102	LSS 2.1
D1.4	Understand the purpose and the safe and humane use of animal husbandry tools, such as hoof trimmers, electric shears, elastrators, dehorning tools, and scales.	CLF 3101	LSS 2.1
D2.0	Students understand key principles of animal nutrition:
D2.1	Understand the flow of nutrients from the soil, through the animal, and back to the soil.	CLF 3551	BIO 9a; 9f LSS 2.1
D2.2	Understand the principles for providing proper balanced rations for a variety of production stages in ruminants and monogastrics.	CLF 3152 CLF 3153 CLF 3154 CLF 3155 CLF 3158	ALG 15.0
D2.3	Understand the digestive processes of the ruminant, monogastric, avian, and equine digestive systems.	CLF 3201	BIO 9a; 9f
D2.4	Understand how animal nutrition is affected by the digestive, endocrine, and circulatory systems.	CLF 3156 CLF 3157	BIO 9a; 9f; 9g
D3.0	Students understand animal physiology:
D3.1	Understand the major physiological systems and the function of the organs within each system.	CLF 3201 CLF 3202 CLF 3203	BIO 9a; 9b; 9c LSS 2.1
D3.2	Understand the animal management practices that are likely to improve the functioning of the various physiological systems.	CLF 240	LSS 2.1
D4.0	Students understand animal reproduction, including the function of reproductive organs:
D4.1	Understand animal conception including estrus cycles, ovulation, and insemination.	CLF 3251 CLF 3258	BIO 2a; 2c
D4.2	Understand the gestation process and basic fetal development.	CLF 3259 CLF 3260	BIO 2a; 2c; 2f
D4.3	Understand the parturition process, including the identification of potential problems and their solutions.	CLF 3259 CLF 3260	LSS 2.1
D4.4	Understand the role of artificial insemination and embryo transfer in animal agriculture.	CLF 3256 CLF 3257	BIO 2a
D4.5	Understand commonly used animal production breeding systems e.g., purebred compared with crossbred and reasons for their use.	CLF 3254 CLF 3262	BIO 3a
D5.0	Students understand animal inheritance and selection principles, including the structure and role of DNA:
D5.1	Evaluate a group of animals for desired qualities and discern among them for breeding selection.	CLF 3262	BIO 2e; 2g; 3c
D5.2	Understand how to use animal performance data in the selection and management of production animals.	CLF 3255	BIO 2e; 2g; 3a
D5.3	Research and discuss current technology used to measure desirable traits.		BIO 3c
D5.4	Understand how to predict phenotypic and genotypic results of a dominant and recessive gene pair.	CLF 3252 CLF 3253	BIO 3a; bb
D5.5	Understand the role of mutations both naturally occurring and artificially induced and hybrids in animal genetics.	CLF 3252	BIO 4c
D6.0	Students understand the causes and effects of diseases and illnesses in animals:
D6.1	Understand the signs of normal health in contrast to illness and disease.	CLF 3304	LSS 2.1 IES 1d
D6.2	Understand the importance of animal behavior in diagnosing animal sickness and disease.	CLF 3303	LSS 2.1
D6.3	Understand the common pathogens, vectors, and hosts that cause disease in animals.	CLF 3303	BIO 10d
D6.4	Understand prevention, control, and treatment practices related to pests and parasites.	CLF 3301 CLF 3302 CLF 3303 CLF 3351 CLF 3352	BIO 10a; 10b; 10c; 10d
D6.5	Apply quality assurance practices to the proper administration of medicines and animal handling.	CLF 3304	LSS 1.1
D6.6	Understand how diseases are passed among animal species and from animals to humans and how that relationship affects health and food safety.	CLF 3302	BIO 10d
D6.7	Understand the impacts on local, national, and global economies as well as on consumers and producers when animal diseases are not appropriately contained and eradicated.	CLF 3303	LSS 2.1
D7.0	Students understand common rangeland management practices and their impact on a balanced ecosystem:
D7.1	Understand the role of rangeland use in an effective animal production program.	CLF 3501	IE 1.a; 1.l BIO 6a; 6b; 6e ALG 15.0
D7.2	Know how rangeland management practices affect pasture production, erosion control, and the general balance of the ecosystem.	CLF 3503	EAS 9c
D7.3	Understand how to manage rangelands including how to calculate carrying capacity for a variety of animal species and locations.	CLF 3501	ALG 15.0
D7.4	Understand how to balance rangeland use for animal grazing and for wildlife habitat.	CLF 3501	EAS 9a; 9b 9c
D8.0	Students understand the challenges associated with animal waste management:
D8.1	Understand animal waste treatment and disposal management systems.	CLF 3551	LSS 1.1
D8.2	Understand various methods for using animal waste and their environmental impacts.	CLF 3551	EAS 9a; 9b 9c
D8.3	Understand the health and safety regulations that are an integral part of properly managed animal waste systems.	CLF 3551	EAS 9c
D9.0	Students understand animal welfare concerns and management practices that support animal welfare:
D9.1	Know the early warning signs of animal distress and how to rectify the problem.	CLF 272	IES 1d; 1l
D9.2	Understand public concerns for animal welfare in the context of housing, behavior, nutrition, transportation, disposal, and harvest of animals.	CLF 3401 CLF 3402	LSS 1.1
D9.3	Understand federal and state animal welfare laws and regulations, such as those dealing with abandoned and neglected animals, animal fighting, euthanasia, and medical research.	N/A	LSS 1.1
D9.4	Understand the regulations for humane transport and harvest of animals, such as those delineated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, and the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act.	CLF 3102	LSS 1.1
D10.0	Students understand the production of large animals e.g., cattle, horses, swine, sheep, goats and small animals e.g., poultry, cavy, rabbits:
D10.1	Know how to synthesize and implement optimum requirements for diet, genetics, habitat, and behavior in the production of large and small animals.	CLF 3401 CLF 3403	LSS 2.1; BIO 9a
D10.2	Understand how to develop, maintain, and use growth and management records for large or small animals.	CLF 3401 CLF 411	N/A
D11.0	Students understand the production of specialty animals e.g.,fish, marine animals, llamas, tall/lightless birds:
D11.1	Understand the specialty animal’s role in agriculture e.g., fish farms, pack animals, working dogs.	CLF 3451 CLF 3452	N/A
D11.2	Understand the unique nutrition, health, and habitat requirements for specialty animals.	CLF 3304	BIO 9a
D11.3	Know how to synthesize and implement optimum requirements for diet, genetics, habitat, and behavior in the production of specialty animals.	CLF 3152 CLF 3153 CLF 3154 CLF 3155 CLF 3158	BIO 9a
D11.4	Understand how to develop, maintain, and use growth and management records for specialty animals.	CLF 411	N/A
D12.0	Students understand how animal products and by-products are processed and marketed:
D12.1	Understand animal harvest, carcass inspection and grading, and meat processing safety regulations and practices and the removal and disposal of nonedible by-products, such as those outlined in Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point documents.	CLF 291	LSS 1.1
D12.2	Understand the relative importance of the major meat classifications, including the per capita consumption and nutritive value of those classifications.	CLF 291	LSS 1.1
D12.3	Understand how meat-based products and meals are made.	N/A	N/A
D12.4	Understand how nonmeat products such as eggs, wool, pelts, hides, and byproducts are harvested and processed.	CLF 3401	N/A
D12.5	Understand how meat products and nonmeat products are marketed.	CLF 3404 CLF 3452	LSS 2.1; 2.6
D12.6	Understand the value of animal by-products to nonagricultural industries.	CLF 110	LSS1.1