Course director: Mr Christopher Kimberley
The course
Agribusiness includes all private firms, public agencies and statutory marketing authorities that bring food and fibre products to consumers or industrial customers.
This course provides applied and practical marketing and management training, including analytical and decision-making skills, for people working within agribusiness.
Objectives
On completion of the course students should:
* have a thorough appreciation and understanding of how the agricultural sector works, and in particular, the inter and intra-relationships which exist between the various subsectors, marketing channels, and firms which comprise international agribusiness;
* have an understanding and appreciation of the role of public policy, and governmental and quasi-governmental institutions in agribusiness; and the interrelationships which exist between the public and private sectors;
* be in a position to develop conceptual and managerial decision-making skills in strategic, functional, and operational areas of agribusiness.
Venues
The course will be offered on a part-time basis as a series of eight intensive five-day residential sessions presented over a two-year period at the Peninsula campus.
Students wishing to complete the course in twelve months can do so on a full-time basis.
Credit for work done elsewhere
Please refer to the course director for details relating to credit transfers.
Note that the masters course has the Graduate Diploma in Agribusiness as the first eight five-day sessions. The Graduate Diploma in Agribusiness articulates into the Master of Business (Agribusiness).
Course structure
Year one
First semester
* MKT6720 Agribusiness I
* MKT6710 Agribusiness marketing
Second semester
* MKT6760 Agribusiness channels
* ACC6830 Agribusiness financial control
Year two
First semester
* MGM6420 Agribusiness management
* MKT6740 Agribusiness trade and policy
Second semester
* MKT6730 Agribusiness II
* MKT6770 Strategic agribusiness