Agricultural Sciences

This course has both theoretical and practical components that cover the processes of mashing, hopped wort production, and fermentation to produce beer. After maturing and conditioning, the beer is packaged by students and used for sensory assessment. Course content includes agricultural inputs to the brewing process of grain, production of hopped wort fermentation and conditioning, stabilization and packaging of beer economics, and marketing in the brewing industry.

The Veterinary Medicine Experience runs every Wednesday afternoon for ten weeks throughout semester one and is aimed at students currently undertaking a science major undergraduate degree. It enables students to experience first-hand all of the School of Veterinary Studies' research, teaching, clinical, and farm facilities. This pathway is designed for students who wish to study veterinary medicine after graduating. Students gain intensive veterinary work experience at the world renowned Easter Bush Campus, located in the area with the largest concentration of animal science expertise in Europe and incorporating the Roslin Institute, equine, farm, small and exotic animal practices, School of Veterinary Medicine teaching facilities, the University farms, and the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security. The Veterinary Medicine Experience offers practical classes in the following areas: small animal practice, internal medicine, and diagnostic imaging; veterinary clinical skills; exotic animal practice; farm animal hospital and a visit to Langhill Dairy Farm; equine hospital, equine first aid, and large animal clinical skills; introduction to pathology; veterinary public health; and sustainability and food production.

This course examines the socio-economic, biological, and technical aspects of forestry within the international frame, in both the developed and developing world. It discusses the various regions of the world and the role of national and international agencies.

This course tackles the fundamentals of ethics as a practical philosophy, both in its principal historical-systematic expressions and in its applications to agriculture, the environment, the treatment of animals, and the use of technology. This course also focuses on the development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that permit students within the degree of agriculture and forest engineering a working knowledge of ethics for their professional career.

This course provides a general introduction to food chemistry (descriptive outlines of food proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates), an outline of dairy and meat chemistry, and a description of lipid oxidation, browning reactions, and use of ingredients in food functionality (i.e., solubility, emulsification, foaming, and gelling in food systems).

This course provides a study of fruit growing in Chile. It covers the morphology and anatomy of fruit plants, as well as the technical principles and management practices of cultivating fruit species of the greatest economic importance.

This course is a study of agroforestry, or land- use systems in which trees and shrubs are grown in association with crops, pastures, or livestock in a spatial arrangement or rotation, and in which there are both ecological and economic interactions between the trees and other components of the system. Agroforestry has been increasingly recognized as a means to contribute to sustainable land use. The primary objective of this course is to familiarize students with the concept of agroforestry, and to help them acquire knowledge about the underlying principles of these systems, such as their ecological processes and environmental interactions. Examples from agroforestry systems throughout the world are described and discussed. Upon successful completion of this course, students are able to explain the concept of agroforestry in the context of agriculture and forestry, and to classify the main systems of agroforestry using various bases for classification; evaluate the major ecological processes involved, and to assess their relative importance in the major agroforestry systems; distinguish the importance of nitrogen fixation and myccorhizal associations in agroforestry systems and to evaluate these in the major agroforestry systems; distinguish the possibilities and limitations of application of agroforestry in the context of local ecological conditions, taking into account local socio-economic conditions; and critically evaluate an important basic hypothesis in agroforestry in a well-written essay, and to discuss it interactively during an oral presentation.