Course description
A two year course-based program in agricultural, environmental and food engineering designed for agricultural professionals in government, industry, or private practice. Students must hold a Bachelor of Engineering degree to be eligible for admission to this program. Students are required to complete 8 graduate level courses, a project course, plus present one seminar in AFNS 601 and attend 75% or more of seminar presentations. The project course consists of a seminar presentation, oral exam and submission of a final report. Courses are dependent on the student's background and career goals and are chosen by the student and supervisor. No funding is available from faculty members or the department for this program.
Course Title
AFNS 500 Individual Study
AFNS 501 Advanced Human Metabolism
AFNS 502 Advanced Study of Food Fermentations
AFNS 503 Processing of Milk and Dairy Products
AFNS 504 Muscle Food Science and Technology
AFNS 506 Rangeland Plant Communities of Western Canada
AFNS 507 Science and Technology of Cereal and Oilseed Processing
AFNS 509 Management of Animal Environments
AFNS 511 Veterinary Immunology
AFNS 512 Protein and Amino Acid Metabolism
AFNS 514 Lipid Science
AFNS 518 Biometrics for Nutrition and Food Science
AFNS 520 Ruminant Physiology and Metabolic Diseases
AFNS 521 Carcass and Meat Quality
AFNS 526 Biology, Phytochemistry and Processing of Edible Plants
AFNS 527 Nutritional Toxicology and Food Safety
AFNS 528 Advances in Functional Foods and Natural Health Products
AFNS 532 Advanced Food Protein Chemistry and Technology
AFNS 550 Compost Science and Technology
AFNS 552 Nutrition in the Prevention of Chronic Human Diseases
AFNS 554 Unit Operations in Food Preservation
AFNS 560 Advanced Feed Science and Technology
AFNS 561 Ruminant Digestion, Metabolism, and Nutrition
AFNS 562 Swine Nutrition
AFNS 563 Poultry Nutrition
AFNS 565 Principles of Plant Breeding
AFNS 566 Advanced Food Microbiology
AFNS 568 Clinical Nutrition
AFNS 569 Advanced Animal Metabolism
AFNS 570 Experimental Procedures in Nutrition and Metabolism
AFNS 571 Applied Poultry Science
AFNS 572 Practical Case Studies in Rangeland Management and Conservation
AFNS 574 Applied Beef Cattle Science
AFNS 575 Laboratory Techniques in Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
AFNS 576 Applied Swine Science
AFNS 577 Advanced Community Nutrition
AFNS 578 Advanced Clinical Nutrition
AFNS 579 Advanced Nutrition: Vitamins and Inorganic Elements
AFNS 580 Advanced Study of Foodborne Pathogens
AFNS 581 Advanced Foods
AFNS 582 Diseases of Field and Horticultural Crops
AFNS 585 Advanced Quantitative Genomics
AFNS 595 Integrated Crop Protection
AFNS 599 Advanced Agri-Chemical Analysis
