BSc Agriculture

Comments about BSc Agriculture - At the institution - Reading - Berkshire

• Objectives
  The Reading Agriculture degree will give you a solid grounding in the issues that affect agriculture now and in the future, and prepare you for employment or further study. As well as covering a wide range of subjects (see below), the programme aims to develop your personal skills, including team working, leadership and lateral thinking.
• Entry requirements
  There are different entry qualifications for each programme. Some programmes require you to have a certain amount of knowledge in a subject before you begin the degree programme – this is called a ‘subject requirement’. Other programmes do not have any specific subject requirements. All programmes will, however, expect you to have reached a certain standard in your education and will ask you to achieve certain grades in your examinations. Most programmes have a standard offer so that you know in advance what you are likely to need. Please note that even if you have the minimum entry qualifications, you are not necessarily guaranteed a place on the degree programme.
• Academic title
  BSc Agriculture
• Course description
  Year 1
  
  Compulsory Modules
  
  -Agricultural & Food Systems
  -Crop Production
  -Livestock Production
  -Agriculture in Practice
  -Countryside & Environment
  -Management & Economics
  -Soil Use & Management
  -Digestion & Nutrition
  -Career Management Skills
  
  -The UK Food Chain
  -Biochemistry & Metabolism
  -International Development
  -Physiology and Development
  -Chromosomes and Genes
  -Humans and the Changing World
  -Ecology
  -Marketing                                                                        
  -Agronomy
  -Languages
  
  Year 2
  
  -Compulsory Modules
  -Machinery
  -Animal Production
  -Agronomy of Combinable Crops
  -Statistics
  -Field Course
  -Practical Farm Analysis & Cereal Agronomy
  -Business Management
  -Financial Management
  
  -Organic Farming
  -Agricultural & Rural Policy
  -Grassland Management
  -Animal Health & Welfare
  -Animal Breeding
  -Languages
  -Marketing
  -Crop protection
  -Forestry
  
  Final Year
  
  -Compulsory Modules
  -Cereal Management and Marketing
  -Dissertation
  
  
  -Agronomy of Root Crops
  -Animal Growth & Meat Production
  -Animal Welfare
  -Business Entrepreneurship
  -Business Management Case Studies
  -Crop Growth
  -Equine Management
  -Food & Agricultural Markets
  -Milk Production
  -Soil Fertility
  -Wildlife
  -Languages