A complete and total update on animal welfare with the most complete and effective online program on the market”

The postgraduate diploma in Animal Welfare in Companion Animals is a new and updated program that arises from the growing demand among veterinary professionals for specialized training in Animal Welfare to minimize animal suffering, since, nowadays, consumers demand not only healthier and safer food, but also food obtained through practices that ensure animal protection and welfare. 

It addresses the concept of Animal Welfare, its evolution and applied ethology, one of the main welfare problems in all animal facilities. 

It also covers animal ethics or bioethics as a differentiating element with respect to other similar training courses. Since this topic is usually included in philosophy programs, it is usually addressed very superficially in health sciences. This highly relevant ethical aspect will be extensively discussed in depth throughout this postgraduate diploma in Animal Welfare in Companion Animals .

The program will help veterinary professionals acquire specialized and updated training in the field of animal welfare, which is increasingly demanded by society, as conflicts between animal advocates and those in food production are the order of the day.

Join the elite, with this highly effective program and open new paths to help you advance in your professional progress"

This postgraduate diploma in Animal Welfare in Companion Animals contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include: 

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice 
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after finishing the course

Our innovative telepractice concept will give you the opportunity to learn through an immersive experience, which will provide you with a faster integration and a much more realistic view of the contents: “learning from an expert”

Our teaching staff is made up of professionals from different fields related to this specialty. That way we are sure to offer the update we intend to provide. A multidisciplinary team of professionals trained and experienced in different environments, who will develop the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but, above all, will put at your service the practical knowledge derived from their own experience: one of the differential qualities of this program. 

The efficiency of the methodological design of this postgraduate diploma, enhances the student's understanding of the subject. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. This way, you will be able to study with a range of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the operability you need in your training. 

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that conceives learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, we will use telepractice learning: with the help of an innovative interactive video system, and learning from an expert, you will be able to acquire the knowledge as if you were actually dealing with the scenario you are learning about. A concept that will allow you to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way. 

With a methodological design based on proven teaching techniques, this innovative program will take you through different teaching approaches to allow you to learn in a dynamic and effective way"

With the experience of working professionals and the analysis of real success stories, with a high-impact approach"

Our objective is to train highly qualified professionals for work experience. An objective that is complemented, moreover, in a global manner, by promoting human development that lays the foundations for a better society. This objective is materialized in helping professionals to reach a much higher level of competence and control. A goal that, in just a few months, you will be able to achieve, with a high-intensity and effective program.

If your objective is to broaden your skill set to pave new ways toward success and development, this is the course for you: A training that aspires to excellence”

General Objectives

• Analyze the concept of animal welfare
• Examine human involvement in animal welfare
• Establish animal welfare assessment systems
• Provide a foundation of knowledge of applied animal ethology
• Examine ethology as a fundamental item in animal welfare
• Analyze the ethological basis for the main species of interest
• Analyze the ethical implications of the treatment of animals in society
• Substantiate the different ethical theories concerning animals
• Generate critical awareness of human responsibility toward animals
• Examine our role in animal welfare
• Analyze welfare in different species of interest
• Generate different points of view on the management and welfare of non-classical livestock species
• Identify welfare problems in companion animals
• Present welfare in beekeeping as a new field within the science of animal welfare

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Animal Welfare. Concepts and Evolution

• Examine the concept of animal welfare in all its implications
• Analyze the physiological stress response in animals and its quantification
• Develop the concepts of stress and acute and chronic stress responses
• Fundamentalize the concepts of "eustress" and "distress"
• Determine the animal welfare implications in this stress response
• Develop the concept of freedoms and needs to understand animal welfare
• Examine the concept of animal welfare assessment
• Specify current animal welfare assessment systems

Module 2. Applied Animal Ethology

• Develop the concept of applied animal ethology
• Establish the principles of learning and motivation in animals
• Identify the role of domestication in the development of current behaviors
• Prove the importance of the study of ethology in assessing animal welfare
• Identify normal and abnormal animal behavior patterns
• Examine enrichment systems in wild and domestic animals and propose them on farms or other facilities

Module 3. Animal Ethics

• Analyze the concept of animal ethics and bioethics in all its branches
• Provide a foundation for social, personal and professional ethics towards animals
• Examine the different ethical theories
• Develop the concept of animal status
• Identify the moral status that can be given to animals
• Substantiate animal integrity and hence animal abuse
• Introduce animal law and the Universal Declaration of Animal Rights
• Assess the role of human-animal relationships in welfare

Module 4. Welfare in Other Species of Interest

• Analyze welfare in dairy sheep and goats, and in sheep feedlots
• Examine equine welfare
• Address welfare in rabbit farms
• Acquire specialized knowledge of welfare in alternative poultry production
• Analyze the welfare of big game species (deer, roe deer, fallow deer, etc.) and small game species (rabbit, hare, partridge, quail, etc.)
• Analyze the welfare of camelids
• Examine welfare in companion animals
• Identifye welfare aspects in beekeeping

A path to achieve specialization and professional growth that will propel you towards a greater level of competitiveness in the employment market”