professional trainingDIPLOMA ETHOLOGY AND EQUINE SCIENCES
Diploma in Ethology and Equine Sciences
The purpose of this training program is to transmission of scientific knowledge. Teaching researchers, veterinarians, agronomists, ethologists and equestrian experts share their knowledge with you.
Behavior, habitat, food, health and education, you develop your skills to optimize your management of horses, while respecting their well-being.
Sensitized to the scientific approach, you learn to build arguments, based on reliable knowledge:
- Professionals, to transmit knowledge and to commit you to promote your structure, your activities and respond to customer requests;
- To structure your project and your speech in an educational approach, adapted to your audience.
The course is spread over 10 months.
It represents a total of 80 hours of training, an average of 2 hrs per week.
- Theoretical online teaching: the MOOC La Cense ~ 56 hours
- Two days of practical work ~ 14 hours
- A transversal project ~ 10 hours
Practical days
You pass 2 days at Haras de la Cense.
The practical work and preparation for the final exam revolve around the following subjects:
- Observation of horse behavior in a group
- Analysis of the behavior of the horse alone or in interaction with humans
- Study and adaptation of horse nutrition to his needs: practical cases
- Progress report on transversal projects
- Situation analysis training
Transversal project
In parallel and thanks to online training, you are presenting a transversal project. This consists of developing a educational support, which aims to transmit to the public of your choice, knowledge developed during the course. You choose the subject and the form of your project (video, educational panels, animation sessions, etc.) that you will present during the defense at the end of the training. A bibliographic record, using the sources of knowledge used in your teaching material, is handed over and evaluated by the jury during the final evaluation.
Oral exam
At the end of the training, you are assessed on your ability to analyze practices with regard to scientific recommendations and results, as well as to transmit knowledge in equine sciences by adapting to the public. The oral exam takes place in 2 parts:
- The presentation of the transversal project
- Analysis of a given situation
The “Ethology and Equine Sciences” skills certificate is issued to students who have obtained a mark higher than 10 in the deliverables (project and bibliography), oral tests as well as all the tests of the 6 modules of the MOOC.
Horse professionals:
- Teachers
- breeders
- Riders
- Grooms