Certificate II in Animal Care at Online Campus

Knowledge assessments: multiple choice questions, matching questions, true or false questions and short question.

Practical skills assessments: demonstrations under observation.

Skills assessments: research tasks, case study scenarios and assignments.

To be enrolled in this course offering, you need to be able to meet the following work placement requirements:

• Complete a minimum of 4 hours per week workplacement over the duration of the duration of the course.

• Before applying:
  Download the Student Work Placement Guide: Student guide
  Find a suitable workplace and provide the supervisor with the Host Workplace and Supervisor Guide: Host guide
  Ask your supervisor to complete the online Workplace Supervisor and Facility Checklist: Workplace checklist

• Several workplaces can be used.

• Suitable workplaces include: kennels, animal shelters, grooming parlours, veterinary practices, and animal hospitals.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

You will need to provide for yourself the following resources which you will keep when you complete your study:

Have access to the equipment, resources, a variety of animals and tasks necessary to develop your skills and undertake your workplace assessment tasks in your host workplace.

To successfully complete this course, you will need:

• to be self directed in your learning

• have good Internet access

• be comfortable typing, using the Internet and email, chatting to your teachers or others online, reading course content online, using common software and uploading your assessments including video files.

You must be reasonably physically fit, as the tasks and activities involve handling animals and may involve manual lifting