INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – OBJECTIVE – Students will develop basic computer literacy skills and will become familiar with useful applications for studying and veterinary practice. Students will learn to use website information for studying and writing course assignments. LECTURES – Basic definitions in information technology. Occupational health and safety requirements for computer operators, health risks posed computers and peripherals. Internet as a tool for communication and information access: structure, operating principles of local and wide area networks. Computers in education: educational programs, encyclopedias, searching for educational information and programs on the Internet. The use of IT technologies in organizational units of veterinary institutions, applications used in veterinary practice. CLASSES – Revision of computer architecture and hardware components, including CPU, data input and output devices. BIOS interface. Presentation of application software on the example of the Word application in the Microsoft Office package. Creating Word documents, fillable forms, special forms, templates, correspondence and Excel spreadsheets. Exporting and importing objects between Office applications. Image processing applications, digital image devices, graphic digitizers, analog-to-digital converters. Searching for information in the Internet. Multimedia – developing PowerPoint presentations, preparing short presentations on a given topic.