Comments about BSc Agricultural Business Management - At the institution - Reading - Berkshire
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Objectives
This programme will teach you about the management of agricultural and other land- based businesses and enterprises that are ancillary to agriculture. It will help you acquire the basic knowledge and skills to become a successful manager of a business, and develop your skills of critical observation and analysis through contact with a variety of interesting real-life businesses.
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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.
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Academic title
BSc Agricultural Business Management
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Course description
Course Structure:
The degree is based around a number of core modules, with other optional modules selected with guidance from your Personal Tutor. Our aim is to build on a number of key management skills and techniques yet still provide you with a flexible programme by offering a choice of optional modules through which you can explore your own interests. There is a Field Study Tour in addition to the regular programme of visits.
Year 1
Compulsory Modules
-Introduction to Management
-Introduction to Marketing
-Introduction to Agricultural & Food Systems
-Economics 1& 2
-British Agriculture in Practice
-Introduction to Crop Production
-Introduction to Livestock Systems
-Countryside & the Environment
-Quantitiative Methods 1
-Career Management Skills
-The UK Food Chain
-International Development:Global & Local Issues
-Soils, Land and the Environment
-Crop Appraisal & Agronomy
-Public Understanding of 'the countryside'
-Institution-Wide Language Programme
Year 2
Compulsory Modules
-Field Course
-Business Management
-Financial Management
-Farm Business Administration
-Environment & the Farm Business
-Practical Farm Analysis & Cereal Agronomy
-Quantitiative Methods 2
-Animal Production
-Research Methods and Data Analysis
-Marketing Management
-Agronomy of Combinable Break Crops
-Organic Farming
-Agricultural Mechanisation
-Policy Analysis
-Grassland Management
-Economics 3 & 4
-Institution-Wide Language Programme
Final Year
Compulsory Modules
-Business Planning and Control
-Dissertation
-Business Management Case Studies
-Human Resource Management
-Rural Policy & Countryside Planning
-Business Entrepreneurship
-Cereals Management & Marketing
-Agronomy of Root and Tuber Crops
-Animal Welfare
-Business Strategy
-Marketing Strategy
-Agricultural Law & Valuation
-Forestry
-Wildlife in the Farming Environment
-Equine Management
-Institution-Wide Language Programme
