Online Biology Degree, get your online degree...good grief
Where does it say online? Not that I'd be looking for this kind of
degree anyway. :-) As a side note, a farm in our area is offering an
online course in "natural" hoof trimming. How one can learn to trim
feet, naturally or not, without ever touching one is beside me. Maybe
their idea of natural hoof trimming is to tell folks to leave their
horse's feet alone and fire their farrier. :-(
Oregon State University, has a whole department of Equine science, in
conjunction with the school of veterinary science. The school of
veterinary science is under going 20 million dollar modernization after
they were placed on probation a couple of years ago by the national
veterinary medicine accreditation body, The Department of Equine
Science has received substantial funding by the state legislature and by
grants from large corporate donors. A substantial part of this money
is going to the department of Equine science for the modernization of
their 200 acer horse farm on campus. The degree is a minor that is
generally perused by those students who are in other agricultural
programs, biology, zoology, and other associated disciplines as well as
the School of Veterinary medicine.
The only thing that I would like to attend is their summer workshop held
in the Steens and Sheephead mountains and working, observing the wild
(er feral) horse herds over there.
The University also sponsors the Equestrian Club that has a Dressage,
Drill, Hunter-Jumper teams that compete locally and regionally. They
are even in the process of fielding polo team.
Okay will will stop touting OSU now. (by the way I am not a grad of OSU
but of Idaho State University but I am posting from here this morning so
I should say some good things about them)
I keep hearing that you are not a rider until you have fallen a hundred
times. I guess that means that I already have a substantial number of
credits toward a degree. Can I apply those credits ?
Oh? I have been taking lessons for more than two years, been to lots of shows, ridden with
friends. I honestly don't recall any of them ever referring to themselves or anyone else as
equestrians. Maybe the people who compete in the Olympics are equestrians. I will settle for
being a rider. :-)