Postgraduate
MSc,
Postgraduate Diploma/Certificate in Agribusiness for Development
Structure
and Syllabus
MSc:
10 modules (4 compulsory, 4 optional plus 2 research)
Postgraduate Diploma: 8 modules (4 compulsory
plus 4 optional)
Postgraduate Certificate: 4 modules (at least 3
compulsory plus up to 1 optional)
Compulsory modules
Marketing for small
agribusinesses (C138)
Economics and
institutions for development (C116)
Entrepreneurship for the
agrifood industry (C112)
Supply chain management
(C111)*
Optional modules
Agricultural
trade & policy (C10)
Financial
and management accounting (C49)
Management
in rural development (C131)
Managing social and environmental
responsibility (C167)
Project
planning and management (C134)
Rural
development (C130)
Socioeconomics
of rural livelihoods (C35)
One module selected from another programme
Research
modules (MSc only)
Research
methods (C106)
Research
report
Short courses
Modules can also be taken
as short courses for professional development or as a taster of the
full degree, diploma or certificate programme. In 2009 the cost of taking
this module as a short course is £925.
Module
to be selected from another programme
Agricultural
trade & policy (C10)
Agrifood marketing in developing countries (C38)
Agroecosystem sustainability (C83)
Animal genetic resource conservation (C96)
Applied econometrics (C05)
Applying economics in business & development (C06)
Assessing and understanding biological diversity (C91)
Biodiversity utilisation (C98)
Conservation and society (C118)
Corporate environmental management (C67)
Ecological science and management* (C100)
Economic principles (C02)
Economics of environmental policy (C21)
Entrepreneurship for the agrifood industry (C112)
Environmental auditing (C108)
Environmental ethics (C63)
Environmental impact assessment (C107)
Environmental monitoring (C71)
Environmental sociology (C69)
Environmental valuation (C22)
Financial and management accounting (C49)
Information and communication technologies for development* (C104)
International environmental law (C25)
Introduction to agricultural sustainability & development (C86)
Introduction to biodiversity conservation and management (C117)
Introduction to environmental economics & policy (C70)
Land resource conservation (C68)
Management in rural development (C31)
Marketing research techniques (C53)
Natural resource economics (C105)
NGO management (C32)
Organisational Behaviour & HRM (C47)
Plant genetic resource conservation (C95)
Policy and reform in OECD and transition economies (C15)
Political economy of public policy (C12)
Problem evaluation & solution (C62)
Project planning and management (C34)
Quantitative methods (C04)
Research methods* (C106)
Rural development (C30)
Science of environmental change (C61)
Society, gender & development (C40)
Socioeconomic research methods in rural development (C36)
Socioeconomics of rural livelihoods (C35)
Socioeconomics of sustainable development* (C102)
Strategic international marketing (C51)
Supply chain management (C111)
Sustainable development: approaches and indicators* (C101)
Sustainable development: design & innovation* (C103)
Sustainable farm management (C84)
Sustainable forest management (C85)
Water resource management (C26)
