Course Syllabus
Course: AGBS 2900
Division: Business and Applied Tech
Department: Business
Title: Horse Breaking and Training II
Semester Approved: Fall 2020
Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2025
End Semester: Spring 2026
Catalog Description: This course introduces more advanced principles and techniques used in starting and training young horses. It covers safety, equipment, handling principles, and techniques through practical application. Students will begin this course with a horse that was either used in the Horse Breaking & Training I course or with a horse that has no more than 30 days riding time. They will learn and apply techniques on this horse to take him from beginning riding under the saddle to work or competition suitable and marketable for sale. Students must provide or have access to their own horse.
Semesters Offered: Spring
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 3; Lecture: 2; Lab: 2
Prerequisites: Horse Breaking & Training I
Justification: This course is a continuation of the Horse Breaking & Training I course. It will give students more advanced skills and understanding of both horse training and marketing within the horse industry. Students who complete this course will have the skills to enter the workforce, continue their education in equine studies, or become entrepreneurs in the equine industry.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will understand and implement good, sound, and safe practices around horses. Students will be assessed through assignments, exams, riding assessments and presentations.
Students will recognize and troubleshoot when problems occur in riding a young horse and teaching new skills or maneuvers. Students will be assessed through assignments, exams, riding assessments and presentations.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of maneuvers used in training and advancing the skill of young horses. Students will be assessed through assignments, exams, riding assessments and presentations.
Students will implement principles of ground work techniques and how they relate to furthering the training of a saddle started horse. Students will be assessed through assignments, exams, riding assessments and presentations.
Students will properly execute the sequence for starting a young horse in a chosen discipline. Students will be assessed through assignments, exams, riding assessments and presentations.
Students will take a young horse from started under the saddle to preparing him for a specific job. Students will be assessed through assignments, exams, riding assessments and presentations.
Content:
Course objectives will be accomplished by providing students with exposure to the following concepts and learning experiences: Stress and practice safe young horse handling skills; Provide a foundation for students to understand and practice advanced maneuvers used in starting and training horses; Practice principles of ground work including round penning, tying around, and lunging and learn how they can be used to strengthen the abilities of a saddle started horse; Introduce students to problems that can occur in teaching newly started horses new skills and techniques; Provide students with the opportunity to take a young horse they have started under saddle to a more finished and marketable animal.
Key Performance Indicators:
Written assignments and exams 10 to 25%
Practical Riding and Riding Assessments 50 to 70%
Projects and Oral Presentations 20 to 40%
Representative Text and/or Supplies:
Students must provide or have access to their own horse.
Pedagogy Statement:
Content will be taught through lecture, demonstration, and practical application of proper horsemanship skills, training techniques, riding disciplines, and horse handling and care practices. Through practical application, assignments, exams, projects, presentations, and exams students will learn about numerous aspects of advancing skills of young horses, general horsemanship, horse care, equine careers, and various horse training techniques.
Instructional Mediums:
Lecture/Lab
Maximum Class Size: 15
Optimum Class Size: 10
