Bachelor of Agriculture/Bachelor of Business combined program offers graduates the opportunity to pursue careers in agriculture and business related areas. Students can achieve disciplinary depth as well as the breadth of learning expected in agriculture and business degrees.
This combined program provides the opportunity to study in areas such as animal production systems and products, crop and pasture management, animal health and welfare, feedlot management, cotton crop protection, grains crop protection, poultry and sheep production, business information technology, micro and macroeconomics, economic perspectives of environment and food, farm and resource management, agribusiness marketing, commodity markets and banking and finance.
Students choosing a business major in Agribusiness; Marketing; and International Business, can also choose from five agricultural minors: plant production, livestock production, cotton production, genetics and sheep and wool.
Course Aims
The Bachelor of Agriculture/Bachelor of Business combined degree aims to produce professional graduates with skills in practical agriculture, accounting, agribusiness, marketing, management and international business. These students should have the ability to apply their knowledge to a diverse range of agricultural and business endeavours and to 'problem solve' business and technical aspects of farm and resource management. This degree provides a specialist/generalist agricultural and business training that equips students with the background to solve agricultural resource problems from a business and economic perspective.
Learning Outcomes
demonstrate a coherent understanding of agriculture by articulating the methods of agriculture and explaining why current agricultural knowledge is both contestable and testable by further inquiry and by explaining the role and relevance of agriculture in society;
exhibit depth and breadth of agricultural knowledge by demonstrating well-developed knowledge in at least one disciplinary area and by demonstrating knowledge in at least one other disciplinary area;
critically analyse and solve agricultural problems by gathering, synthesising and critically evaluating information from a range of sources, designing and planning an investigation, selecting and applying practical and/or theoretical techniques or tools in order to conduct an investigation and collecting, accurately recording, interpreting and drawing conclusions from data;
be effective communicators of agriculture by communicating agricultural results, information or arguments, to a range of audiences, for a range of purposes and using a variety of modes;
Bachelor of Business component: Accounting, Agribusiness, Business Analytics, Economics, Finance, Human Resource Management, International Business, Management, Marketing.