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From May 2011 Cambridge e-Learning Institute started the new online

certificate in Animal Welfare.

The Certificate consists of several individual courses taken independently, but

note that each new course builds on the know-how acquired in the previous

courses and therefore it is a requirement that you complete the precedent

courses. Thus, in order to take AW02, there is a requirement to have

completed AW01.

After the completion of AW02, you can choose any options on offer. Finally

AW08 can only be taken after the completion of AW01, AW02 and at least one

option.

Basic Certificate in Animal Welfare

In order to complete the Basic Certificate in Animal Welfare you need to take

the three compulsory courses and at least one option. The first two

compulsory courses are AW01 - Basic Concepts in Animal Welfare and AW02 -

Principles of Animal Behaviour. After you have successfully completed these

two courses, you can then choose any one option from the options list. After

you complete your option, you can then register for the last compulsory

course, AW08 - Animal Ethics. After you have successfully completed all of

these four courses, you gain a Basic Certificate in Animal Welfare.

Advanced Certificates

However, you are not restricted to taking one option only. If you have an

interest in other welfare issues, you can of course take more options. In order

to reflect how many options you have taken, we provide different certificate

levels. For each additional option added you go up one level and are awarded a

Certificate level 1, 2 or 3, depending on how many credits you have

accumulated. If you decide to do all the options you are awarded a CEI-

Advanced Certificate in Animal Welfare.

Later, you have an option to obtain a CEI Diploma in Animal Welfare if you

decide to write a dissertation, which will account for 60 credits.

As you can see from the table below, some courses are longer than others and

this is reflected in the awarded credits. For example, while AW01 only consists

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5 lessons, AW02 in turn comprises 7 lessons, takes one month longer and

because of this it is awarded 30 credits. The same holds for AW03 the welfare

of farm animals which also consists of 7 lessons due to the extension of

educational materials included in the course.

The other options are slightly shorter, which is reflected in the lower credit

load.

Modules Credits CATS

Length (Months)

Compulsory AW01 Basic Concepts in Animal Welfare 20 3

Compulsory AW02 Principles of Animal Behaviour 30 5

Options

AW03 Farm Animals 30 5

AW04 Animals Used in Research

20 3

AW05 Wild Animals

20 3

AW06 Work and Leisure Animals (shows, sports, work & companion animals)

30 5

AW07 Legislation in the UK, EU and International.

20 3

Compulsory AW08 Animal Ethics 20 3

So when you choose your option, this is going to be reflected in your final

accumulated credits. The compulsory courses account for 70 credits, but if you

choose AW03 (30 credits) or AW04 (20 credits) this will be reflected in your

final total amount of credits.

However despite the difference in credits, you maintain the level. For example,

student A and student B both decided to take only one option, but whereas

student A chose to do AW03 (30 credits) student B chose AW04 (20 credits). In

the end student A will have summed up 100 credits while student B summed

up 90 credits, however they are both on level 1, which means that each one of

them has chosen to do only one option. The credits simply reflect the

extension in learning hours of the option.

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Compulsory Options Title Name

AW01 (20) AW02 (30) AW08 (20)

70 CREDITS

AW03 (30) AW04 (20) AW05 (20) AW06 (30) AW07 (20)

BCAW Basic Certificate in Animal Welfare (compulsory + 1 option)

BCAW I Certificate in Animal Welfare (level 1) (compulsory + 2 options)

BCAW II Certificate in Animal Welfare (level 2) (compulsory + 3 options)

BCAW III Certificate in Animal Welfare (level 3) (compulsory + 4 options)

ACAW Advanced Certificate in Animal Welfare (compulsory + all options)

DAWW Diploma in Animal Welfare (compulsory + all options + dissertation) ( 70 + 110 + 60 )

Note that these credits are specific to Cambridge e-Learning Institute (CEI) and

do not relate to any other credit system used in the UK (CATS) or in the

European Union. The credits accumulated at CEI are used to measure your

progression towards CEI qualifications only, however we based our credit

attribution on the UK CATS scheme which awards credits according to the

number of study hours assigned per course.

Cambridge e-Learning Institute is a private company, based in Cambridge, UK

and founded by academics which worked at the University of Cambridge,

however we have no formal association with this university nor any other

Higher Education Institution in the UK although our tutors are lecturers or

researchers at some of these universities.

When you acquire one of our certificates, we provide you with a document

stating that you have successfully completed our courses and a description of

the course contents and how many learning hours each course consists of.

Course Design

Each individual course runs online on a virtual learning environment and

consists of 5 to 8 lectures. Each lecture is composed of reading materials,

consisting of handouts, scientific papers, multimedia presentations, and a

forum where you are required to discuss the issues assigned for each lecture.

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Participation in the forum is compulsory, but each forum runs for one or two

weeks and you have plenty of time to login and provide your contribution.

Each forum is mediated by a tutor specialised in the particular subject. Usually

these tutors are selected for their expertise and recruited from universities in

the UK and abroad.

Each course ends with a small online examination and in some cases you may

be required to write a short final assignment, but read the individual

descriptions for each course.

Credits: The image on the front page is the artwork Denis Alexander Torres, director of Project Andigena

(www.andigena.org)

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image: Denis Alexander Torres.

Course Content

1. Approaches to Animals Welfare

Definitions

The 5 Freedoms and the 3Rs

Welfare, ethics and law

2. Basic Concepts

Animal suffering

Pain and injury

Hunger and Thirst

Needs

Motivation

Fear

3. Limits to Adaptation

4. Assessing Stress

5. Monitoring Systems

5 lessons Assessment:

Forum participation Written assignment

Basic Concepts in Animal Welfare AW01

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Course Content

1. The different approaches to the study of behavior

2. Motivation

3. Cognition, learning, memory and play

4. Evolution and adaptation of behavior

5. The animal mind

6. Descriptive ethology

7. Applied animal behavior and abnormal behaviours


Forum participation Written Assignment: A critical

review of a paper.

AW02 Concepts in Animal Behaviour

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Course Content

1. General farming practices

2. General welfare issues I : handling and transport

3. General welfare issues II: stunning and slaughter

4. Large animals I (cattle and pigs)

5. Large animals II (sheep and goats, camelids and

horses)

6. Small animals( Poultry and rabbits)

7. Recently farmed species and fish farming

8. Monitoring farm animal welfare


Forum participation Written Assignment: A critical

review of a paper.

AW03 Farm Animal Welfare

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Course Content

1. Introduction

2. Most used animal groups

3. The three R's

4. Alternatives

5. Improving the welfare of laboratory animals

6. Legislation



AW04 Welfare of Animals Used in Research

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Course Content

1. The welfare of free wild animals

2. The welfare of farmed wild animals

3. The welfare of captive wild animals: zoos and safari parks

4. Wildlife management and the welfare of populations



AW05 Welfare of Wild Animals

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Course Content

1. Working animals

Circuses, rodeos, bull Fights, racing and blood sports,

tracking and schools.

2. Companion animals: common issues

The human-animal bond

Responsible ownership

Breeding and pet trading

3. Companion Animals: cats and dogs

Cats, dogs and small pets

Stray animals

Exotic and wild animals as pets

4. Stray animals

5. Rodents and rabbits

6. Birds

7. Exotics



AW06 Work and Leisure Animals

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Course Content

1. The organisations around the world

United Nations Council of Europe WTO OIE

2. Law Jargon

Conventions Treaties Regulations and Directives

3. Examples of Animal Protection Legislation



AW07 Animals and the Law

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Course Content

1. Why do we need ethics?

2 Ethical Reasoning

3. What is ethics?

4. Theories of ethics

5. Utilitarianism

6. The concept of rights

7. Animal rights vs human obligations

8. Attitudes to animals

9. The moral status of animals

10. Animal capacities

11. Ethical decision making



Note: This course can only be taken after successful completion of AW01, AW02 and one option.

AW08 Animal Ethics

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Director : Dr Anabela Pinto

Tutors :

Tutors are recruited according to the requirements of each course and the needs of our

participating students.

CEI does not have permanent staff, but we have a list of collaborators from Universities

in the UK and overseas specialists on each subject discussed under each course.

Our tutors have at least an MSc in a related subject, but the great majority hold PhDs.

Copyright:

CEI holds copyright of the materials produced for each course

CEI holds a has a Copyright Adult Education Licence License from CLA ( The Copyright

Licensing Agency). This means that none of the materials used during the course can be

used for other purposes than for individual learning or our registered students.

The course materials cannot be copied, lent, sold or given to anybody else, nor used in

other courses outside the CEI premises.

Documents

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