Thursday 25 October 2012

Equine Studies at Saint Mary Of The Woods College - Woman Only

By Heather Toms


A non-profit institution for girls only , Saint-Mary-of-The-Woods-College offers associate, and bachelor and master degrees. The college has a menu of exciting degree courses in subjects related to the world of horses, including:

General Equine Studies: This major programme endows scholars with incredible flexibility that will aid them to go into the majority of the fields associated with the equine industry. Once scholars have made up their minds on their majors, they get help from their advisors in choosing electives that would be most appropriate given the student's future plans. Students who have not yet determined further education and professional paths are given masses of scope to explore possibilities while they're going through classes in equine science, riding instruction, training, stable management and business. Scholars can choose an Equine Studies Bachelor Degree or an Equine Studies Associate Degree. They can also opt to Minor in Equine Studies.

Equine Coaching & Instruction: This degree course is specially designed for those students who nurse ambitions about teaching equitation or about developing personal training philosophies that they can apply to business and ventures they set up after finishing graduation. This course's subjects include equitation theory, equestrian school design and selection of school horses and their maintenance. Scholars who complete this course graduate as Bachelors, with an Equine Coaching & Instruction Degree.

Equine Business Management: This programme is open to all, but specific to students nursing ambitions about building their own business in the equine world. This course lays a glorious academic footing for scholars and combines it with in depth practical experience. This programme enables students to work on powerful plans for business, on market strategies and on managerial abilities. Students are also taught legal and financial issues that are relevant to the horse industry.

Therapeutic Riding? The University set up a programme for therapeutic riding called 'Mounted Miracles' in 2000. This programme provides top quality horseback therapeutic sessions to folks afflicted by a range of infirmities. Scholars are taught to treat such individuals by helping them develop eager autonomy, while subjecting them simultaneously to physical rehabilitation measures like improving muscle tone through a regime of vigorous coordination and motion.

Students are also inspired to try to get into the College's Equestrian Team. This team is an affiliate of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association and participates in both Eastern and Western style riding competitions all thru the year. The team participates in about 20 events every year. Students who lose it on joy and thrill of competition at shows should join the team, regardless of whether they don't have their own horses. In these events, riders and horses are paired thru a draw. This usually helps create level playing arenas that may be extraordinarily challenging, because no student is given a pony she has ridden before.

The Varsity owns an exceptional equestrian facility boasting of features like:

- 55 stalls

- 2 barns

- 2 bathrooms

- 3 tack rooms

- 3 offices

- 4 stalls for grooming

- 2 stalls for washing

- A lab building

- An indoor arena of 90 x 150 feet with bleacher seating

- An area for therapeutic riding

- An outside arena of 150 x 250 feet

- 2 buildings for story announcement

- Space for beachers

- 6 general-use pastures

- 40 acres of prime land.




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