FDSCAGRX - FdSc Agriculture - Programme Specification

This programme specification contains details on the learning outcomes and teaching assessment strategies for the FdSc Agriculture award.

The FdSc Agriculture covers a range of subject areas thereby enabling successful graduates to achieve a qualification aligned to their particular interest and career aspirations. Students have successfully graduated from this programme through a process of evaluative and critical enquiry which has enabled them to not only acquire the most up to date knowledge relating to their chosen subject areas, but to use that knowledge to problem solve and provide solutions to the challenges of the industry sector. This knowledge is consolidated and applied through the extensive period of work placement which gives graduates the skills and experience needed to enhance their employability in the agricultural industry. Practical skills are mapped against nationally recognised standards, allowing graduates to enter the workplace with the training needed to be an effective employee.

Graduates will have developed a high level knowledge and understanding of agriculture to enable them to effectively manage land now and in the future. Graduates will have a fundamental understanding and critical awareness of the problems and challenges facing the land management industry, including issues pertaining to the global nature of, and internationalisation of food production and conservation. Graduates will also have developed a range of key skills to enable them to communicate ideas effectively in a variety of media.