Sustainable Future Foods (BIO600)

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Module Specific Skills and Knowledge:

1. Evaluate critically major factors influencing modern agriculture.

2. Describe in detail novel approaches to the implementation of sustainable agriculture including procedures to mitigate environmental pollution both to air and waters and an understanding of how pathogens may be transmitted in the environment.

3. Identify and analyse the challenges affecting agriculture including disease.

4. Interpret independently factors affecting sustainability in agriculture.

Discipline Specific Skills and Knowledge:

5. Demonstrate a systematic understanding of knowledge, and a critical awareness of, current problems and/or new insights in sustainable agriculture much of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of the field of study.

6. Analyse and evaluate critically essential facts and theories in agriculture.

7. Evaluate critically aspects of current research in agriculture with reference to primary literature and review articles.

Personal and Key Transferable/ Employment Skills and Knowledge:

8. Communicate ideas effectively and professionally by written and oral means.

9.Study autonomously and summarise research results with minimal guidance.

10. Select and effectively manage information drawn from books, scientific journals and the internet.

11. Deal with complex issues both systematically and creatively, make sound judgements in the absence

of complete data, and communicate your conclusions clearly to specialist and non-specialist audiences.

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