Farm and Food Systems

Course Description

Content

The course is centered around a close collaboration with a partner company in agriculture. During the course the students spend time doing field work in the company, engaging in real-life cases. The work process is facilitated and structured, from identification of areas of improvement through interactions with the partner, through problem analysis, solution creation and prioritizing to delivering a partner document with proposals for action to the partner. The teaching and learning environment is characterized by being experiental (learning by doing) and interactive (involving stakeholders) and the specific knowledge and skills are determined by the concrete cases worked with.

Recommended academic qualifications

If you have completed the Forestry and Landscape Engineering programme, you are qualified for this course.

The course requires knowledge of agriculture and environment corresponding to a BSc in one of these fields.

Academic qualifications equivalent to a BSc degree is recommended.