Course Syllabus
Course: AGBS 1900
Division: Business and Applied Tech
Department: Business
Title: Horse Breaking and Training I
Semester Approved: Spring 2020
Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2025
End Semester: Fall 2025
Catalog Description: This course introduces fundamental principles and techniques used in training young horses. It covers safety, equipment, handling principles, and techniques through practical application. Students will begin this course with a horse that has never been ridden. They will learn and apply techniques on this horse to take it from halter broke to riding under the saddle. Students must have or make arrangements to have their own horse.
Semesters Offered: Fall
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 3; Lecture: 2; Lab: 2
Justification: The horse industry is a very large and important part of our national, state, and local economies and rural heritage. The state's horse industry is diverse, involving agriculture, business, sport, entertainment, recreation and ranks in the top 10 states for the number of horses per capita. Growth in the industry has created a demand for personnel in all of its related fields.
Snow College is strategically centered with a significant demand from current and future students to provide equine educational opportunities. Similar classes are available at SUU and USU. This class is required for the Certificate in Equine Management that will be offered through Snow College's Business and Applied Technologies division.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will understand and implement good, sound, and safe practices around horses and demonstrate sound and safe practices throughout the class. Students will be observed in their interaction with the horses throughout each class. The instructor will provide oral feedback.
Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of maneuvers used in starting and training young horses. Class observations will occur during each class and through assessed pattern completion. The instructor will provide oral feedback.
Students will be able to implement principles of ground work techniques. Students will be evaluated during and through class observations and through graded pattern completions. The instructor will provide oral feedback.
Students will know how to properly execute the sequence for starting a young horse Students will be evaluated through demonstrations with their young horse. The instructor will provide oral feedback.
Students will start a young horse from halter breaking to being ridden under saddle. Students will be evaluated through a pre- and post-teacher observation with feedback and self-reflection of their progress in breaking their horse.
Content:
Course objectives will be accomplished by providing students with the following learning experiences: young horse handling skills; safety for horse and trainer; foundation in understanding and practicing maneuvers used in starting and training horses; introduction to the principles of ground work, including round penning, tying around, lunging, and driving techniques; the sequence for starting a young horse from halter breaking through beginning riding under saddle.
Key Performance Indicators:
Observations of interactions with the horses 20 to 40%
Reflection of their progress in training their horse 20 to 40%
Demonstration through practical riding assessment 20 to 40%
Observations and grading of completing riding patterns 20 to 40%
Representative Text and/or Supplies:
No text is required
Pedagogy Statement:
Content will be taught through class activities (lecture and demonstrations) and through hands-on interactive work with their own untrained horse, participating in class demonstrations, and reflection on their own behaviors and interactions with their horse and critique from the instructor.
Instructional Mediums:
Lecture/Lab
Maximum Class Size: 15
Optimum Class Size: 10
