Agricultural Sciences and Technologies
What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?
What does it train you for?
The Bachelor's Degree in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies is divided into two curricula: Agricultural Sciences and Sciences for Organic Agriculture.
Both courses prepare for the profession of agronomist, paying attention to providing future professionals with the skills required for the management of plant and animal production, for the transformation and marketing of agricultural products, for the technical-economic management of the agricultural and agri-food business, for the adoption of agricultural policies and rural development, for the economic and appraisal evaluations of agricultural land assets and capital.
Full professional competence is achieved by continuing studies in the Master's Degrees.
The specific skills also take into account the quantitative-qualitative and hygienic-sanitary aspects of food, environmental and landscape issues, biotic and climatic adversities, the potential of local agricultural products and non-agricultural activities: agritourism, enjoyment of the natural environment, protection of traditions and promotion of quality and the Mediterranean Diet.
The curriculum dedicated to organic agriculture develops a more specific competence in the organic production system which is a consolidated component of food consumption and an expression of agro-environmental policies, widely spread in Sicily.
What do you learn?
The graduate in the Bachelor's Degree in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies consolidates basic scientific knowledge: Mathematics, Chemistry, Plant and Animal Biology and Agricultural Genetics; this knowledge is essential to develop professional skills.
The doctor in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, in fact, is the competent professional for the agronomic aspects, cultivation techniques and defense of agricultural production, and aspects relating to livestock farming, as well as the principles of agricultural economics, knowledge of rural development policies, tools for the evaluation of land assets, for the design of cultivation systems and the technical-economic management of agricultural companies.
Furthermore, the graduate acquires the skills relating to the transformation and marketing processes of the final products of the agri-food chain, also obtained by applying the organic method.
What can you do with it?
To complete their education, graduates can continue their studies in the wide range of Master's Degrees offered by the University of Palermo in the field of agricultural sciences, identifying their preferred professional branch and directing their professionalism in the areas they consider most interesting.
With the achievement of the professional qualification, they can practice the profession as a Junior Agronomist, registered in the Professional Register of the Order of Doctors of Agronomy and Doctors of Forestry (Section B), and can operate in the following areas: Design and consultancy of agricultural, zootechnical, forestry and environmental systems, food transformation and product marketing.
They can work in the defense and recovery of agricultural and forestry ecosystems, in the fight against desertification and in the conservation of biodiversity.
They can carry out appraisal, cadastral, topographic and cartographic activities.
They can provide technical, accounting and fiscal assistance for the production of goods and technical means.
They can be involved in quality certification and analysis of plant, animal and forestry production, both primary and transformed.
Further areas of application of the skills are identified in the entrepreneurial function, in the performance of tasks within public bodies, public administration and research, in international institutions, in private companies that offer services to agriculture.