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[rileyroo]

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I have read the previous threads about online animal nutrition courses and I'm wondering if anyone has started taking one of the classes since the last discussion on this topic (or even new users who have joined the forum since then).

I registered for the Purdue class 2 years ago and had to drop it, and was planning to take the Kansas State course Spring 2010, but the $1122 tuition price is looking a little too expensive now that I'm trying to fund a research trip.

 

[GellaBella]

I am currently taking the one through Oklahoma State.

Its a pain in the butt but I think probably all online courses are?

You have homework questions to complete on chapters that you email to the professor. He is pretty quick about getting back to you with a grade...usually less than a day or so, occassionally longer, but I kind of have the feeling he isn't ALWAYS reading the responses...once I got a grade back within like 5 min...and it was a long homework assignment.

Other times though he has commented if I've missed something and docked some points for it, so who knows.

Exams are multiple choice and are 50 questions long.
He focuses on (in my opinion) minutiae ... such as the number of times a cow chews per day when thats one sentence in two or three chapters jammed with biochemistry etc.

Each course comes with a handbook and I'd say about half the questions come from what he covers there, and the other half come from somewhere in the text book.

Overall I guess it is fine. I think I just don't like distance learning so much. I feel better when someone is presenting the material to me, you can figure out what they think is important or not easier that way.

I've been taking this course since Feb but am only about half way through cause sometimes I just don't want to deal with it, but gotta wrap it up this semester so I can get that transcript off to schools!

 

[MIZMARLEY]

the University of Kentucky has one. i'm currently taking it this semester. seems to cover the material well enough and its not too time consuming. homework is due every monday and most of it is from the online course documents. occasionally you have to use the book for charts. the midterm and final are taken in person, but if you are not near campus you can set it up to take at a different location.

 

[oilidigigoat]

I'm planning on taking the one at Purdue. Why did you drop it? Hopefully I can discipline myself to treat it like a regular class and not procrastinate on assignments.

 

[cowgirla]

Great Bay Community College in NH offers one, I believe. At least, they did last year. I'll be looking into taking it myself at some point this spring/summer.

 

[rileyroo]

thank you all for the responses so far! i dropped the purdue course for two reasons, i personally didn't like the set up of the class (when i took it, it didn't seem organized which i found hard as it was a distance course) AND i thought i would benefit more if i had completed organic chemistry first.

one of my friends is taking it now and really likes it. it seems a lot more organized than when i attempted to take it before.

cowgirla - if you're wanting to take animal nutrition in the summer, i have heard GREAT things about oregon state's course. it's only offered in the summer which is why i can't take it. when i first heard about it, it was just a week or two past the start of the class and so i missed out. 🙁

thanks for all of the information for the UK and OkSt courses. i have heard that the prof for the OkSt class really likes detailed information like % and numbers. 🙂

 

[ImaJerseyGirl]

Rutgers:
http://animalsciences.rutgers.edu/undergraduate/courses/11067330w.html

Let me know if you have questions about RU.

 

[cowgirla]

cowgirla - if you're wanting to take animal nutrition in the summer, i have heard GREAT things about oregon state's course. it's only offered in the summer which is why i can't take it. when i first heard about it, it was just a week or two past the start of the class and so i missed out. 🙁

I actually live only ten minutes from the Great Bay campus, which is why that one's my choice--Class only costs about $500, I believe and they offer an on-campus lab (optional) to go along with the online class. I don't -have- to take any of it, but think it would be interesting. I've taken other nutrition classes but never "general nutrition."

 

[Willowhand]

Hey Rileyroo,
I too ran into the cost issue when looking at online courses, and I was stumped for a bit since my college doesn't offer animal nutrition. I ended up talking to one of the professors, and we came up with the idea of doing an independent study -basically, I design the course based on what I need to learn, do the work, and the professor grades my papers and is available to discuss anything I have difficulty with. This ended up being a great way of learning the material and taking care of the pre-req without spending anything extra; I don't know if you're still in school, but if you are perhaps you could try something similar. Good luck!

 

[rileyroo]

Hey Rileyroo,
I too ran into the cost issue when looking at online courses, and I was stumped for a bit since my college doesn't offer animal nutrition. I ended up talking to one of the professors, and we came up with the idea of doing an independent study -basically, I design the course based on what I need to learn, do the work, and the professor grades my papers and is available to discuss anything I have difficulty with. This ended up being a great way of learning the material and taking care of the pre-req without spending anything extra; I don't know if you're still in school, but if you are perhaps you could try something similar. Good luck!

wow and the schools you're applying to accept it? i now a couple of my schools have a specific list of courses they count, so it might be a little too late for me to throw together a correspondence course. but i'll definitely look into it. thanks for the information and suggestion.

 

[sumstorm]

I took Rutgers, and learned a lot, but it wsa very expensive.

If you go the ind. study route, I would get the ok in writing first from vet schools.