Jul 04, 2025  
Baltimore City Community College’s 2024 - 2025 Catalog 
    
Baltimore City Community College’s 2024 - 2025 Catalog

Lab Animal Science Certificate


The Lab Animal Science Certificate is designed to train students to be lab animal care and handling technicians or assistants. Lab animal care and handling technicians’/assistants’ responsibilities include: feeding, watering, and examining laboratory animals for signs of illness, disease, or injury in laboratories; cleaning and disinfecting cages and work areas, and sterilizing laboratory and surgical equipment; providing routine post-operative care, administering medication orally or topically; and preparing samples for laboratory examination under the supervision of veterinary or laboratory animal technologists or technicians, veterinarians, or scientists.

Suggested Sequence of Courses

** All BCCC students must meet the College’s Computer Literacy requirements in order to receive a degree or a certificate. All first-time, full- and part-time degree and certificate seeking students are required to complete the PRE 100  course within the first six credits.

Program Learning Outcomes


  • Students will demonstrate the ability to conduct necessary calculations required by animal labs.

  • Students will demonstrate the ability to communicate professionally with physicians, veterinarians, scientists, researchers, and technicians in animal labs or biomedical labs.

  • Students will demonstrate the ability to follow a typical industry Standard Operating Procedure with accuracy and precision in animal labs.

Total Semester Credits 13


2nd Semester


  • (2 credits)
  • Note: Student has the option to take the CLT Exam. Passing the exam allows the student to avoid taking CLT 100.

Total Semester Credits 6


Program Total 17-19


*NOTE: LSS 103  is a hybrid online class.