Agricultural Science
Postgraduate
In Brisbane (Australia)
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Brisbane (Australia)
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Credits
8
Why study the Graduate Certificate in Agricultural ScienceThe program will develop theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to meet the many global challenges associated with feeding the world, maintaining our environment and wildlife, biosecurity concerns, and competition for limited resources. Students will be able to explain and demonstrate advanced theoretical and technical knowledge in one or more disciplines or area of practice in the broad fields of agriculture and environmental stewardship (agronomy, horticulture, plant protection and soils). You will analyse critically, evaluate and transform information within the discipline or field, analyse, generate and transmit solutions to complex problems and be able to communicate with professional and non-professionals audiences.For students who enrolled prior to 2014 in the Graduate Certificate in Agricultural Studies please refer to the Graduate Certificate in Agricultural Studies for information on your program requirements including the rules and courses to be completed.
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About this course
Entry requirementsBachelor degree in any field, with UQ or equivalent GPA of 4 or above on a 7 point scale; or2 years of work experience in the same discipline.IELTS overall 6.5; reading 6; writing 6; speaking 6; listening 6. For other English Language Proficiency Tests and Scores approved for UQ, view the English proficiency policy.International students who are accepted into full-time study in the Graduate Certificate in Agricultural Science are eligible to apply for an Australian student visa .The Australian Government has simplified the visa...
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Subjects
- Horticulture
- Agricultural Science
Course programme
Program structure
The courses offered in the Graduate Certificate in Agricultural Science are set out in the course list. Each course is allocated a certain number of units (#).
The Program Rules explain what is required to complete the Graduate Certificate in Agricultural Science. These requirements include the total number of units you need to complete in order to graduate.
To have your degree conferred, you also need to comply with UQ’s policies and rules.
- Course Code Units Course Title
- AGRC7005 2 Advanced Agronomy
- AGRC7048 2 Principles of Plant Physiology
- LAND7000 2 Water & Land Resource Management
- PLNT6894 2 Principles of Weed Science
- PLNT7014 2 Principles of Integrated Plant Protection
- Course Code Units Course Title
- AGRC7048 2 Principles of Plant Physiology
- HORT7002 2 Horticulture Production
- PLNT6894 2 Principles of Weed Science
- LAND7009 2 Soil and Growth Media Management
- PLNT7014 2 Principles of Integrated Plant Protection
- Course Code Units Course Title
- AGRC7048 2 Principles of Plant Physiology
- BIOL7011 2 Molecular Diagnostics in Plant Protection
- BIOL7012 2 Plant-Microbe & Insect Interactions
- BIOL7013 2 Biosecurity Plant Pests: Invertebrates
- BIOL7017 2 Plant Pathology
- ENTM6003 2 Terrestrial Arthropods
- PLNT6894 2 Principles of Weed Science
- PLNT7005 2 Plant Protection
- PLNT7014 2 Principles of Integrated Plant Protection
Agricultural Science