Agriculture & Environmental Studies

Agriculture is the science or art concerned with cultivating land, raising plants, breeding and feeding livestock to meet human needs. In a broad sense agriculture means using natural resources to produce life-sustaining goods that include food, fiber, forest products, gardening crops and other related services and products. Agriculture curriculum is a combination of biology, environmental science, economics, chemistry, business and management. Through agriculture studies students will learn to plan, design and implement projects and productive agricultural methods, as well as agricultural engineering projects related to the growth of animals and vegetation and also develop new trends and technologies to develop agriculture methods. Job options for agriculture graduates are: agricultural economist, agricultural engineer, agronomy sales manager, field trial officer/surveyor, agricultural consultant and many more. Environmental studies is a multidisciplinary field that deals with the interaction between human and environment. It includes both the natural and artificial environment along with their connection and interaction. Environmental studies students use what they learn from science, social sciences and humanities to better understand the environmental issues and offer potential solutions for those issues. Students look at human communication with the natural world and come up with ideas to keep it from being destroyed. The skills acquired from this course are: written and oral communication skills, complexity of interaction between natural and artificial environment, research methods, policy analysis and many more. The career options for environmental studies graduates is very wide which include: environmental activist, community developer, health promoter, hazardous waste manager, professor, researcher, teacher, and many more.