Thinking about animals as a field of study, not just pets? You cover vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, genetics, breeding and disease. Short and self paced, it is a fair place to start.
Genetics, breeding, diversity of life and disease. This is the study side of animals rather than the day to day of looking after them.
Around thirty study hours. If you are weighing a longer animal science path, this tells you cheaply whether the subject holds you.
A bonus welfare series from Bondi Vet Dr Kate Adams, plus one to one mentoring with Vet Nurse Erin.
Zoos, wildlife parks, shelters and veterinary practices take people in at assistant and trainee level. The science makes you useful there faster.
Learning husbandry and enclosure work under keepers.
Supporting field and care work on conservation projects.
Helping care for injured native animals through recovery.
Daily husbandry across a mixed animal collection.
Supporting clinic staff with handling and animal care.
Support work in aquatic collections and research.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. The course carries no national recognition. Zoo keeping and wildlife roles are competitive and often want field hours.
Seven zoology modules, then a welfare series from a practising vet.
The bonus mentor series is what marks this out: ten welfare topics recorded with a practising vet, sitting on top of the zoology modules.
Most short animal courses stop at mammals. This one gives invertebrate zoology a module of its own.
The mentor series covers wild, captive, farm, pet, working and sport animals separately.
Ongoing mentor and live chat support, rather than email only.
With a CPD endorsed digital credential
Issued by the college with a CPD endorsed digital credential. It carries no national recognition.
The college is registered with the International Approval and Registration Centre and is an ICOES accredited centre.
Held by the college, which also lists itself as a Provider of Training Excellence.
Send the form. It takes a minute and asks for nothing up front.
A course advisor walks you through the modules and the weekly cost.
Pick your payment plan, sign up, and open the first module.
Work the zoology modules first, then the welfare mentor series.
The college puts it at around thirty study hours, with unlimited access once you enrol.
You enrol through The Career Academy and Online Courses Australia delivers it, as one of the college's teaching partners.
From $29 a week on a payment plan. You can pay weekly, fortnightly or monthly, or pay the lot upfront. The plan takes no deposit and runs no credit check.
No exams, ever. You work through the modules online and submit tasks as you go.
Ten welfare topics recorded with Bondi Vet Dr Kate Adams, covering wild, captive, farm, working and companion animals.
You finish with a Certificate of Achievement from the college. The college is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office and belongs to the International Approval and Recognition Council. It is not a registered training organisation, so the training is not nationally recognised.
The college puts it forward as a stepping stone toward further animal study. Any provider you apply to decides for itself what prior learning counts.
There is a ten day money back guarantee from the college. Ask a course advisor to walk you through how it works before you sign up.
The Career Academy is an online college whose animal care tutors include Rachel H and Kris D. It gives a share of course proceeds to the RSPCA for rehabilitation and adoption programs.
Picture knowing why an animal behaves that way, not just that it does.