Characteristics of The Graduate School of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

The Graduate School of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries provides highly specialized education in the various fields which support the sound living of human communities. These include agriculture, forestry and fisheries, food science, environmental and life sciences. The School aims to develop specialists in the southern Kyushu area, which is a significant food supplier in Japan, as well as Southeast Asia extending to the South Pacific. The goal for students is to make a difference in the sustainable production of resources, their rational use and environmental conservation. In doing so, the School aims to contribute to solving the pressing issues which local communities and the world are facing, such as rapid changes in the globalization of industries, global climate change and the sharp drop in the productive human population, a problem which is particularly serious in rural communities.

To solve these problems, the former Graduate School of Agriculture and Graduate School of Fisheries were reorganised into the Graduate School of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries consisting of four Departments: Agriculture, Natural Resources and Forestry; Food Innovation Science; Field Environment Science; and Fisheries Resource Science. The aim is to integrate agriculture and fisheries to provide high-quality education.

Our Image of Human Resources

The Graduate School of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries provides professional education in the fields of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, food science, environmental and life sciences, which support the sound living of human communities. The school aims to train human resources who can contribute to high-level research in the sciences of agriculture and fisheries, improve the communities they live in and eventually play an active part in the improvement of the world.

Diploma Policies

The Graduate School of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries awards a master’s degree to those who have acquired the following capabilities, been awarded the credits required for graduation and passed a thesis examination.

• 1. Advanced specialized knowledge in plant production science, animal science, regional business, food distribution, aquaculture, production activities relating to food innovation, food and health, regional environmental characteristics supporting food and health, sub-tropicalisation, forest management, disaster reduction, fisheries resources and the regional biological environment and the practical capabilities for proposing solutions and implementing them.
  
  2. Capabilities to solve issues in agriculture, livestock, forestry, fisheries and food industries and take a leadership role in local communities to propose solutions.

Curriculum Policies of the Graduate School of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

• The School teaches advanced knowledge and skills in the science of agriculture, livestock science, forestry science and fisheries science and develops practical capability through advanced experiments, on-the-job and practical training, to enable students to recommend solutions from a leadership position in local communities.