PAZ 1943 - Cooperative Education PAZ 1943 - Cooperative Education This course is designed to provide students an opportunity to demonstrate practical Zookeeping skills within a professional animal facility. Students must demonstrate a variety of complicated skills including assisting with veterinary procedures, assessment of animal wellbeing, maintaining animal habitats and demonstrating an understanding of emergency responses and regulations governing animal exhibit facilities. This course provides students with exposure to a variety of taxonomic animal groupings. Due to the variable nature of the zoo environment, seasonal variations, and species life stages those taxonomic groups may change. This course will be instructed by professional curatorial staff. This course is part of a sequence of courses which may be taken several times in order to ensure students have opportunities with a variety of species in many different circumstances. Occupational (A.S. and A.A.S.)