Aims are teaching the concepts and methods used in animal breeding to understand and apply animal breeding strategies.

Aims and importance of animal breeding; Traits considered in animal breeding; Phenotypic variation and its components; Heritability, repeatability and their importance in animal breeding; Concept of selection and its genetic results; Response to selection; Factors affecting the rate of genetic change; Breeding value; Selection for one trait; Selection methods for one trait; Relationships among traits; Indirect selection; Selection for more than one trait; Mating systems; Inbreeding and crossbreeding; Selection and mating strategies among populations, crossbreeding, heterosis and inbreeding; Relationships between selection and mating methods; Modern breeding strategies.