HORTICULTURE

    
1. Brief presentation (of the importance) of the discipline

linking various knowledge from the areas of the natural sciences and technology, to train students for the cultivation of horticultural plants, while simultaneously respecting the co-natural development of the agricultural space. The obtained knowledge enables interdisciplinary understanding of the cultivation and use of quality horticultural plants, both for the needs of safe food and preserving the cultural landscape or the human living environment.

Masters understand the specifics of horticultural plants in terms of growth and development, their composition and functional value and methods of cultivation, which enable a nature conservation approach and responsible exploitation of renewable resources.

2. Basic aims of the study program

The basic aim of the program is, by asts two years and amounts to 120 credit points. The program does not have individual fields of study.

 

3. Method of study

Regular and part-time.
In the 2011/12 academic year, the study program will be taught in the form of regular study.
Fifty places will be available in the 2011/12 academic year, of which 10% (5 places) will be for foreign candidates. Studies will take place if at least 15 candidates enrol.

 

4. Duration of study

The level two master study program Horticulture l

Because of a change in dietary habits, which is increasing the use of fruit and vegetables and, at the same time, the greater awareness of the importance of the quality of the living environment, horticulture has become an ever more important discipline in recent decades.

In Slovenia, because of natural and other limitations, horticulture is a very promising branch of agriculture, which is also extremely important for the development of the Slovene rural areas.

5. Professional title obtained

After completion of studies, the student obtains the title master of horticulture (MSc.), written after their name.

6. Employment opportunities for graduates

Masters of Horticulture can be employed in the area of research and development, in the area of marketing and service activities (marketing of fresh fruit and vegetables, organisation of production, commodities market, economic interest associations, insurance companies etc.), in the public sector (EU administration, ministries, agencies, funds, chambers, control and certification organisations, consumer protection organisations, etc.). in orchard-vineyard-nursery production (head of productiom, technologist), and the obtained knowledge will also qualify them for self-employment (freelance businessperson, advisor, independent assessor).

  

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