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Faculty
of Agriculture
(Facoltà
di Agraria)
Dean:
prof. Domenico Regazzi
via Filippo Re 4 40126 Bologna - tel. (051) 2091471 /
2091473 fax (051) 2091470
e-mail:presagr@agrsci.unibo.it
- internet: http://www.agrsci.unibo.it
The
School of Agriculture was established in Bologna in 1930
and in 1935 it became the Faculty of Agriculture.
A description of the four different degree courses offered
by the Faculty is given below, as well as information
on postgraduate options.
The various Faculty of Agriculture courses provide a sound
technical and scientific grounding for general and specialized
training in plant and animal production, food technology
and crop biotechnology.
Each course addresses aspects of a constantly evolving
living world and also environmental issues, always placing
human beings and their needs and well-being above everything
else.
Undergraduate
courses
The
degree in Biotechnology (Plant biotechnologies), held
in Bologna, is a five-year course. It lasts a total of
3200 hours, 2/5 of which are common to the various courses
in the Faculties of Agriculture, Medicine, Pharmacology,
Mathematics, Physics and Natural Science, and Veterinary
Medicine. The remaining hours are dedicated to compulsory
courses in the chosen area of specialization and informal
teaching activities. Undergraduates are required to attend
all their courses and to take a total of 30 exams.
Career
opportunities include the development of biotechniques
that can modify plant production, in qualitative and quantitative
terms, in relation to the environment, and the use of
products for food and industrial purposes, providing new
skills to be used in basic and applied research laboratories.
The
Agricultural Science and Technology course is a five-year
course held in Bologna, with three majors: Planning and
Management of Agricultural Land Resources; Crop Production
and Agricultural Ecosystems; Plant and Crop Protection.
Career
opportunities include management position in government
ministries, regional or provincial agencies, agricultural
development organizations and rural reclamation consortia;
teaching in middle and high schools (technical subjects
at agricultural and professional Institutes); positions
with agricultural companies as experts in poultry farming,
aquaculture, fruit production, agricultural cooperation,
field crops and fruit production, crop and fruit protection,
agricultural planning, agricultural market economics and
rural planning.
Graduates
in Agricultural Science and Technology can take an examination
to qualify as professional agronomists.
The
five-year course in animal production science, held in
Bologna for the first two years and then in Reggio Emilia,
includes four majors: Biotechnology; Planning Economics;
Hygiene and the Environment; Animal and Feed Production.
The degree course consists of 31 annual courses (two six-month
courses are equivalent to one annual course), 26 of which
are common to all the majors and five of which can be
chosen from among the special subjects available.
Career
opportunities include the management of arge animal breeding
centres; positions as nutrition experts in feed companies;
experts in animal breeding; experts in the animal products
sector of the food industry; marketing experts for the
animal products sector of the food industry.
Graduates
in Animal Production Science can take an examination to
qualify as professional agronomists.
The
Food Science and Technology course is a five-year course
held in Cesena, with two majors: Food Technology and Food
Quality. The course lasts a total of 3300 hours: 2750
hours (40% dedicated to practicals) on the basic compulsory
subjects; 150 hours (40% of which practicals) on optional
complementary subjects for the majors; and 400 hours for
preparation of a thesis. There are 24 exams for the basic
subjects, plus those for the optional subjects, a foreign
language test (English, French or German), to be passed
before the fourth year, and the discussion of the thesis,
during which an individual experimental research or planning
project is presented.
Career
opportunities include the management, administration and
organization of technical firms involved in the production,
processing, storage and marketing of food products; experts
in food processing techniques and protection against parasites;
experts in food production systems.
Graduates
in Food Science and Technology can take an examination
to qualify as professional food scientists.
Postgraduate
courses
Research
programmes available:
agricultural
economics and policy, agricultural entomology, agricultural
mechanics, animal production, cell and molecular biotechnology,
field crop science, food biotechnology, livestock economics,
microbial ecology, plant pathology, fruit production,
hygiene, health and quality improvement of animal production.
The
Phytopathology specialization course lasts two years,
with at least 200 hours of lectures each year and 150
hours of practical activity. Students complete the course
with the discussion of a written dissertation on one or
more subjects covered during the course. Attendance at
lectures and practical work is compulsory. There is limited
number of places available on the courses; an entrance
examination must be taken.
Career
opportunities include the management of work with the
national and local plant pathology service; management
activity and/or experimental work in regional plant disease
units and provincial and area plant protection consortia.
Departments
- Agricultural
Economics and Engineering
- Agronomy
- Arboriculture,
Viticulture, Forestry and Landscape
- Protection
and Improvement of Agricultural Food Production
- Agricultural,
Environmental and Food Science and Technology
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