| |
Nov 04, 2025
|
|
|
|
|
Baltimore City Community College’s 2024 - 2025 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Lab Animal Science Certificate
|
|
 Return to: Academic Programs
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
Program Total 17-19
*NOTE: LSS 103 is a hybrid online class. |
Return to: Academic Programs
|
|
