The planning of methodologies, which envision the areas of professional activity and provide a contact with the practical reality, presents itself as an effective instrument for the permanence of the undergraduate in the course, especially in the initial periods, in HEIs. In view of this scenario, we sought to assess the challenges, questions, and impasses of an experimental proposal for the curricularization of university extension in the Zootechnics graduation as part of the anatomy discipline, even in the first year, in order to meet the demands and needs students and the community, in order to reduce the dropout rate of students. This research reports on the experience in 2010, in which there was a decrease in dropout and failure rates in the discipline of anatomy of domestic animals. Thus, the significant results of its applicability are perceived, which, in addition to reversing negative statistics of failure and dropout, provided circumstances that favored and facilitated the progress of the students who were taking the semester discipline in effect, due to the early contact with the reality of their professional qualification.
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