Graduate Diploma in Agriculture

• Bachelor

  Degree

• English

  Language of instructions

• 1 year

  Years of study

• Full-time

  Study mode

• United Kingdom, Cirencester

  Location

This is a unique opportunity to create your own bespoke course in a way that will help you realise your ambitions, whether you are a student or a professional with plans to advance your career in the rural industries. Not only will you gain a detailed understanding of the UK agricultural industry, you will be given practical rural skills training at the RAU’s cutting-edge Rural Innovation Centre, based at our 491-hectare farm. A summer study tour gives you the added opportunity of expanding your knowledge and contacts base by engaging directly with a variety of agricultural enterprises. While many graduates find work as farm managers, farm assurance scheme officers and agricultural consultants, to name a few, others wish to progress onto a Masters course. The course may be studied full-time over one academic year, or part-time over two, three or four years. You will complete three compulsory modules, followed by four modules selected from a wide range of undergraduate modules allowing you to tailor the course to meet your career aspirations. As well as lectures, farm walks and visits, you will work on case studies, assignments, and management projects. Prospective students are strongly encouraged to complete pre-course reading in order to secure a minimum basic knowledge of agriculture and to highlight possible areas of weakness. Modules • 2256 Applied Agricultural Science • 3013 Sustainable Management of Soil and Water • 3087 Advanced Dairy Food Chains • 3100 Farm Business Management • 3110 Global Meat Chains • 3227 Agricultural Management • 3240 Contemporary Media Studies Plus choice of FOUR elective modules from: • 1046 Human Nutrition, Health and Society • 1054 Introduction to Food Production • 2232 Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship and Enterprise Development • 3006 Emerging Agricultural Issues • 3008 Advanced Livestock Production • 3010 Game & Deer Management • 3011 Rural Business Diversification • 3020 Advanced Crop Production • 3067 Farm Machinery Management • 3084 Entrepreneurship • 3087 Advanced Dairy Food Chains • 3090 Forestry and Woodland Management • 3093 Farmland Ecology • 3097 Small Scale Farming and Local Food Supply • 3104 Food and Agri-business Strategies • 3205 Management Information Systems for Farming Businesses • 3210 Applied Agricultural Finance • 3218 Sustainable Business and Agrifood Supply Chains • 3228 Integrated Organic Systems • 3237 Agricultural Technology Applicants are required to have a first bachelor degree in a subject non-cognate to agriculture. This is a conversion degree programme