Sustainable Crop Production: Agronomy for the 21st Century MSc provides the knowledge and practical skills in crop management and crop improvement. Warwick will provide you with practical skills and academic understanding to develop a critical and creative mindset.

Course Overview

Crop agriculture provides mankind’s increasing population with foods fibres and fuel and this course provides you with knowledge and practical skills in crop management and crop improvement. You will gain a combination of practical expertise and academic understanding to develop key skills. You will learn the principles of crop production including the latest advances in plant pathology integrated pest management and soil health.

Teaching

You will be taught by a multidisciplinary teaching faculty including staff from Life Sciences and Warwick Business School joined by lecturers with internationally acknowledged academic industrial and government expertise.

Teaching is typically via facilitated session including interactive lectures short question and answer sessions field trips and interactive workshops/tutorials. Individual and team learning will be used for case study analysis.

Skills from this degree

You will gain:

• An understanding of how crops are grown and the factors affecting crop production
• The knowledge to identify and understand the causes of crop disorders and make decisions on appropriate management/control measures
• The skills to critically evaluate how constraints on crop production can change due to biotic and societal pressures
• Transferable skills including team working communicating with peers and sector specialists organising planning and oral presentation
• Research skills including scientific report writing conducting surveys problem solving data analysis and project work

Careers

Graduates from the School of Life Sciences taught Masters courses have gone on to work for employers including: Pfizer; Severn Trent Water; Eurofins Agroscience Services; Novartis; Philips Healthcare; Rothamstead Research; NGO Client Earth and Public Health England. They have pursued roles such as: bacteriologists microbiologists; biochemists medical scientists; business and financial project management professionals; environmental health professionals management consultants and business analysts.

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant offering impartial advice and guidance together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

• Careers in Life Sciences Networking Event
• Careers in Science
• Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
• Mock Interviews for Life Sciences students
• Interested in Careers in Scientific Publishing