Graduate Certificate in Applied Science

Summary

Lincoln University’s Graduate Certificate in Applied Science expands your world by teaching how science is applied to the different parts of our world, solving problems and nourishing progress.

If you love solving problems and are fascinated by science, the Graduate Certificate in Applied Science is for you. Through this programme, you’ll cultivate an understanding of how science has played a vital part in the evolution of industry, agriculture, medicine, communications and transport. And coming from New Zealand’s only specialist land-based agribusiness and ecosystems university, you’ll see how science is guiding the management and conservation of our biosphere and its precious resources.

Programme Structure

The Graduate in Applied Science is a flexible programme that covers subjects from Environmental Management to Soil Science to Transport Studies, that can normally be completed in a single semester of full-time study.

You require 60 credits with a minimum of 45 credits at 300 level from courses listed in the Schedule of Courses from:

• Bachelor of Agricultural Science
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Viticulture and Oenology

The remaining 15 credits can be selected from the Schedule of Courses. A course advisor will help to ensure that your course choices form a coherent study programme.

Choose a minimum of three of the following courses:

Semester 1

• ANSC 327 - Animal Nutrition, Biochemistry and Metabolism
• BMGT 314 - Quality Systems
• ECOL 302 - Applied Ecology and Conservation
• ANSC 312 - Dairy Production Science
• MGMT 316 - Analysis and Planning in Agricultural Systems
• QMET 306 - Experimentation
• PLSC 320 - Crop Science
• SOSC 340 - Advanced Soil Management
• SCIE 393 - Advanced Field Research
• FOOD 301 - Food Product Innovation and Quality
• FOOD 304 - Microbial Biotechnology
• ENGN 361 - Winery Equipment and Structures
• PLPT 323 - Grape Pest and Disease Management
• LWST 302 - Resource Management Law
• ENTO 304 - Insect Ecology and Diversity
• HORT 330 - Fruit and Vegetable Science and Technology
• PLPT 305 - Plant Diseases
• WATR 301 - Water Resource Management

Semester 2

• ANSC 319 - Animal Physiology
• BICH 301 - Advanced Biochemistry
• ANSC 314 - Meat and Wool Production Science
• MGMT 317 - Development and Investment in Agricultural Systems
• PLSC 321 - Pasture Agronomy
• ECOL 309 - AgroEcology
• FOOD 302 - Advanced Food Processing
• FOOD 303 - Food Biochemistry and Biotechnology
• WINE 304 - Wine Chemistry and Technology
• MGMT 344 - Strategic Management in Wine and Horticultural Business Systems
• WINE 301 - Viticulture II
• WINE 302 - Wine Quality Assessment
• ERST 310 - GIS and Applications in Natural Resource Analysis
• ERST 313 - Catchment Management
• PLPT 306 - Sustainable Plant Protection
• PLSC 325 - Environmental Plant Biology
• PLSC 331 - Seed Technology
• SOSC 301 - Advanced Soil Science