BSc Rural Resource Management

Comments about BSc Rural Resource Management - At the institution - Reading - Berkshire

• Objectives
  This interdisciplinary degree will equip you with skills and techniques for the study, analysis and management of the rural sector and its many components.
• 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 Rural Resource Management
• Course description
  This BSc in Rural Resource Management involves the following modules.
  
  Year 1
  
  -Rural Resource Management in Practice
  -Countryside and the Environment
  -Introduction to Management
  -Introduction to Marketing
  -Economics
  -Quantitative Methods
  
  -Introduction to Agricultural and Food Systems
  -Ecology: Species and their Interactions
  -Soils, Land and the Environment
  -Introduction to Biology
  -Introduction to Crop Production
  -Introduction to Livestock Production Systems
  
  Year 2
  
  
  -Countryside Management
  -Business Management
  -Financial Management
  -Applied Rural Resource Management
  -A Field Course
  -Research Methods & Data Analysis
  
  -Environmental Assessment
  -Sustainable Land Management
  -Public Sector Management for Rural Resources
  -Forestry & Woodlands
  -Agricultural & Rural Policy
  -Consumer Behaviour
  -Organic Farming
  -A foreign language
  
  Final Year
  
  -A Field Course
  -Business Management
  -Rural Policy & Countryside Planning
  -Individual Project
  
  -Business Management Case Studies
  -Forestry
  -Equine Studies
  -Estate Finance & Business Management
  -Environmental Management
  -Wildlife in the Farming Environment
  -Agricultural Law & Valuation
  -Conservation & Biodiversity
  -Business Entrepreneurship