Long Island University Post Launches Equine Studies Program

The program has four areas of focus: equine management, equine education, equine health, and an interdisciplinary track.
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Long Island University (LIU) Post, in Brookville, New York, has announced the launch of a new equine studies program, which will be offered to students beginning in spring 2015. The four areas of focus: equine management, equine education, equine health, and an interdisciplinary track.

The program will utilize North Shore Equestrian Center located on campus, home to the LIU Post equestrian team and where students have been taking riding courses for decades. The equestrian studies minor is designed to meet the needs of students who want to expand their knowledge of horses and the equestrian business and gain skills in this area that will prepare them to enter into a career in the equine industry.

The program, catering to students with a passion for horses, includes the following areas of focus:

  • Equine management focuses on the business side of the industry and includes courses on business management, facilities management, activities management, and business law and ethics;

  • Equine education includes courses on the fundamental theories of riding, teaching riding methods, therapeutic riding, and judging;

  • Equine health includes courses on equine anatomy, basic equine health, disease, and first aid; lameness, metabolic disorders, and reproduction; and equine nutrition; and

  • The interdisciplinary track allows students to tailor their focus with a combination of courses from the management, education, and health tracks.

"There are numerous career options that can be merged with a minor in equine studies," said Gerald. L. Chasin, of the North Shore Equestrian Center. "For science majors, the pharmaceutical business is heavily invested in research and development in the large animal category. In the technology hardware industry there are on-going developments in scanning equipment, and for marketing and public relations majors, combining the equine minor can lead to opportunities in the sports, broadcast, journalism, and entertainment sectors

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