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Department of Bioproductive Science |
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Department of Environmental Engineering |
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Department of Agricultural Economics |
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Department of Forest Science |
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University Farm |
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University Forests |
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| Department of Bioproductive Science |
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This Department provides education in the development and application of biological resources using production technology as well as advanced science and technology, which are in harmony with a given ecosystem. In the second year, students choose one of the courses listed below, and the Department continues to train them in the chosen area of study. |
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Plant Science Course |
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This Course aims to develop capable persons who play an active role in a wide range of fields related to plant production. |
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Animal Science Course |
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The aim of this Course is to develop capable persons who contribute to fields that require knowledge and skills related to food production and animals. |
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Applied Biology Course |
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This Course aims to develop capable persons who contribute to society through the functional analysis of plants, insects, and microorganisms, the use of genes, breed improvement, and the management and control of harmful organisms. |
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Applied Biochemistry Course |
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The objective of this Course is to develop capable persons who contribute to the food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries by developing advanced technology for using biological resources through life sciences. |
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Plant Science Course |
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This Course is designed to allow students to acquire technical knowledge in the field of crops and their production environments, particularly the development of plants' genetic abilities and the establishment of low-input, environmentally conscious plant production technology. Education and research in this Course takes into account the need to study from an international perspective. |
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Animal Science Course |
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Based on studies of basic life phenomena in the animal kingdom such as the morphology, functions, and genetics of animals, education and research in this Course focuses on theories of breed improvement, reproduction, nutrition, management, and protection and their applications. |
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Applied Biology Course |
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Education and research in this Course cover all fields of life sciences related to plants, insects, and microorganisms from the population to genetic level, particularly the genetics of plants and breed improvement, plant diseases and their pathogens, the ecology of noxious insects and other harmful organisms, and the various functions of insects. |
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Applied Biochemistry Course |
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Education and research in this Course look at life phenomena from a chemical point of view, covering a wide range of areas from the basics of life sciences and their application to the processing and use of biological products. |
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- Plant Science Course:
Outline of Horticultural Science, Comparative Agriculture, Principles of Crop Production, Plant Nutrition, and Pedology
- Animal Science Course:
Animal morphology, Animal physiology, Animal genetics
- Applied Biology Course:
Plant pathology I, Applied entomology, Studies on the functions of insects
- Applied Biochemistry Course:
Biochemistry, Food chemistry, Applied microbiology
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- First-class senior high school teacher's license (agriculture and science)
- Livestock artificial inseminator's license
- Food sanitation supervisor's license
- Food sanitation inspector's license
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| < Graduates' career choices > |
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Graduates' career choices include research organizations and administrative agencies such as the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, prefectural governments, municipalities, and other public entities; teaching at educational institutions; agricultural cooperatives and other associations; and food, nursery, and pharmaceutical companies. |
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| Department of Environmental Engineering |
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This Department's sphere of research lies in rural districts. The goal of students in this Department is to create an environmentally friendly, sustainable society in which advanced agricultural production, comfortable rural life, and a varied local ecosystem coexist in harmony. This Department provides various educational programs incorporating social sciences, biology, and other scientific methods while focusing on approaches based on engineering. Students choose one of the courses listed below. |
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Water and Soil Environmental Engineering Course A
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This Course aims to develop engineers engaged in planning the creation of beautiful rural districts and environmental impact assessments. |
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Water and Soil Environmental Engineering Course B
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This Course aims to develop engineers engaged in creating the foundation for sustainable food production in harmony with the local environment. |
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Food Production System Engineering Course |
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This Course aims to develop engineers engaged in developing IT-based production environment systems, preserving foods, and recycling regional resources. |
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Course on Environmental Coexistence Studies |
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This Course aims to develop engineers engaged in regional planning and resource recycling to ensure coexistence between human beings and the environment. |
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The Department of Environmental Engineering covers a wide range of areas, including developing the foundation for food production, achieving greater efficiency in production and food supply, preserving and improving the rural environment, managing the natural ecosystem and creating new natural ecosystems, and recycling and reusing regional resources. This Department, emphasizing the need for all its students to learn engineering technology related to mathematics and physics and the curriculum for technical education in each course, requires common compulsory subjects related to mathematics, physics, and information processing for all its students, and most must be studied in the first year. In the second year, students choose one of the courses listed above and later they study compulsory subjects in the specialized field covered by the course they take. |
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Agriculture and environmental science, Biological resource sciences, Computer data processing, Studies on rural planning, Studies on water resource planning, Soil physics, Agricultural land engineering, Studies on environmental assessments |
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- Associate professional engineer's license and a first-class senior high school teacher's license (agriculture)
- Registered assistant surveyor's license and biotope planner/builder's license (students completing one of the courses are exempted from taking some of the examinations for these licenses)
- Qualification for a JABEE-certified engineer-in-training
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Graduates' career choices include administrative agencies such as the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and prefectural⁄municipal governments, as well as business firms such as construction and environmental consultants, agricultural machinery manufacturers, and food industries. |
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| Department of Agricultural Economics |
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The Department of Agricultural Economics, the only department of nonnatural science in the Faculty of Agriculture, pursues education and research in food production, agriculture, and farming villages in Japan from the viewpoint of social science. Students acquire a wide range of knowledge, including the flow of agricultural products such as domestic production and trade, distribution, and processing, consumer needs, agricultural policy, environmental problems, the functions of rural society, the roles of related industries, and historical perspectives, while studying social science theories centered on economics and business administration and learning about quantitative analysis, financial analysis, fact-finding surveys, and other methods. By obtaining a full understanding of these topics, students aim to solve socioeconomic issues that arise in relation to agriculture. |
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Classes consist mostly of lectures, but the lectures incorporate training formats and place an emphasis on seminars. In addition, in order to deepen students' understanding of agricultural production sites and related industries, practical training at farms, visits to agriculture-related facilities, surveys of farming villages, and agricultural management internships are offered. In this environment, this Department aims to develop capable persons who improve their ability to learn and think for themselves, refine the acquired skills such as problem identification, information processing, data analysis, theory construction, and expression techniques when writing a graduation thesis in the fourth year, and contribute to the real world after graduation. |
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Agricultural economics, Introductory economics, Business administration, Public finance, Regional sociology, Agricultural history, Agricultural policy |
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First-class senior high school teacher's license (agriculture and civics) |
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Graduates' career choices include the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, prefectural and municipal governments, JA and other agricultural organizations, as well as business firms in the financial services and manufacturing industries. |
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| Department of Forest Science |
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Education and research in this Department cover forest management planning, forestry policy, forest ecology, forest nurturing, timber collection and transport, erosion control and forestry conservation, forestry products, and tissue culture for trees, among other subjects. Forests provide sustenance for the lives of people and protect their living environment, and they are also highly valuable cultural resources. If forests are destroyed, it is extremely difficult to restore them, and society is seriously affected. |
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Based on studies on forestry processes from the nurture and management of forests to the processing and use of wood products, students learn about the wood-production and environmental-conservation functions of forests in a comprehensive manner. Major subjects cover a wide range of disciplines from natural sciences to social sciences, but particular emphasis is placed on practical outdoor training mainly using University forests. The curriculum consists of an organic combination of subjects from the basics of forestry to their application and subjects based on practical training.
This Department aims to develop practical experts involved in forestry by pursuing the use and application of forest resources to ensure the sustainable development of human society. |
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Forest sciences I and II, International forest sciences, Exercise for dendrology, Forest policy, Wildlife management, Wood processing, Erosion control and forestry conservation planning |
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- First-class senior high school teacher's license (agriculture)
- Registered assistant surveyor's license
- Associate tree doctor's license
- Chief forest lineman's license
- First- and second-grade landscape architecture and management engineer's licenses
- Qualification for a JABEE-certified engineer-in-training (associate professional engineer)
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Graduates' career choices include administrative agencies such as the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Forestry Agency), the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the forest affairs divisions of prefectural governments, as well as business firms involved in such fields as paper and pulp, plywood boards and construction materials, afforestation and landscaping, and environmental assessments. |
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| University Farm |
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The University Farm, a field for the Faculty of Agriculture's practical education and research, is located in a truly rural district at the northern tip of Moka City, which is adjacent to the City of Utsunomiya. In this spacious 101 hectares, approximately 60 hectares of land are cultivated for rice paddies, ordinary fields, vegetable fields, orchards, forage fields, and stock farms, and some 50 milk and beef cows are raised to practice recycling-oriented agriculture based on cooperation between farming and livestock farming. Making effective use of these large-scale educational and research resources, the University Farm provides education and practical training programs from a wide range of perspectives from production to consumption, including practical training in agriculture (including summer residential training) and practice in processing using products produced on the farm. Furthermore, it actively receives undergraduate and graduate students to offer opportunities and to support education and research closely tied to the agricultural production site. |
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| University Forests |
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In Tochigi Prefecture, there are two University Forests used as educational and practical training facilities aimed at conducting basic and applied forestry studies and allowing students to acquire practical skills in forestry and deepen their overall understanding of forests. The Funyu Forest, which occupies an area of 530 hectares, has lodging as well as educational and research facilities. Located in the central part of Nikko National Park, the Nikko Forest consists of a 210-hectare natural forest in the sub-alpine zone. It offers comfortable lodging for those carrying out experiments and practical training, allowing students to come into contact with beautiful natural settings all year round. |
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