With the theme Multidisciplinary Approach: Essential for Sustainable Environment-Friendly Development, the UGM Faculty of Animal Husbandry is again holding a Summer Course in 2022. This activity will be held online on 12-26 July 2022 and will be followed by 127 participants from 8 countries.
In his remarks, the Dean Faculty of Animal Science UGM conveyed the importance of the younger generation working together to discuss sustainable development. “The role of students in sustainable development is needed to produce the right solution. One of the efforts to provide solutions to problems among academics is to hold a Summer Course, which is expected to have a broad impact on opening up the insights of UGM students as a whole,” said Prof. Budi Guntoro, ASEAN Eng.
The Faculty of Animal Science UGM has successfully held a Summer Course since 2016, attended by students from various universities in ASEAN plus China, South Korea, and Japan. Successively in 2017, 2018 and 2019 the Summer Course activities were supported by various domestic and foreign animal husbandry college networks. In 2021, due to the pandemic, the Summer Course will be held online so that more participants from various institutions can join the program.
The aim of this Summer Course is to make UGM a center of excellence in studies and research that addresses livestock, agriculture, and tourism issues as part of a multidisciplinary approach to environmentally friendly human development. This activity also emphasizes the establishment of institutional networks and cooperation with ASEAN countries and countries outside ASEAN related to animal husbandry, agriculture, and tourism in the ASEAN region and beyond. Apart from that, this activity is also an event to introduce the curriculum at UGM as well as Indonesian culture to strengthen the image of UGM and Indonesia in the eyes of ASEAN students, so that it is hoped that many international students will be interested in continuing to the next level at UGM.
The Summer Course activities include lecture activities in online classes with several courses related to the Summer Program theme, virtual laboratories, virtual farm tours, discussions and presentations (workshops), and a virtual introduction to Indonesian culture related to agriculture and animal husbandry and tourism. Students will take part in the Summer Course for 15 days (122 hours) and will be recognized as equivalent to 3 credits entering the MBKM scenario, namely Student Exchange, with the Decree of the Dean of the Faculty of Animal Husbandry UGM regarding recognition of the Summer Course in MBKM activities, in accordance with the Course Outcomes. (Prisil/ Secretariat)