Master’s course
All the lectures, research work, and thesis work will be conducted in English. Students in the Master’s course are required to take some lectures from the course list. Total of at least 30 credits are required to complete a Master Course (At least 4 credits from the General Compulsory Elective Subjects, 12 credits from the Compulsory Subjects of his/her division and at least 2 credits from the Compulsory Elective Subjects of his/her division). Students are expected to write a thesis in English based on research conducted during the course. A student will be given 12 credits (Compulsory Subjects), if he/she passes the thesis examination. Students who meet the completion requirement will be awarded a Master (Agriculture). Students must finish their study within two years. Basically extension is not allowed without special circumstances.
Doctoral course
All the research work and thesis work will be conducted in English. Total of at least 12 credits from the Compulsory Subjects are required to complete a Doctoral Course. Students are expected to write a thesis in English based on research conducted during the course and submit this thesis to examiners in the special program for evaluation. A student will be given 12 credits (Compulsory Subjects) and awarded a Ph. D. (Agriculture), if he/she has completed the course with satisfactory academic performance. Students must finish their thesis within three years. Basically extension is not allowed without special circumstances.
Course list for Master’s course students
Semester
| 1st semester | 2nd semester | 3rd semester | 4th semester |
| April – June | June – August | September – November | November – February |
Grade values
| AA | Excellent | 100-90 |
| A | Very Good | 89-80 |
| B | Good | 79-70 |
| C | Satisfactory | 69-60 |
| － | Failure/ No credit | 59- |
Subjects listed below are offered in English.
General Compulsory Elective Subjects
| Subject | Credit | Semester | Syllabus ( Jp & En) |
| Economics and Ecology in Population and Food System | 2 | 3rd | Economics |
| Mitigation of Global Warming Effect | 2 | 2nd & 3rd | Mitigation |
Compulsory Subjects
| Division | Subject | Credit | Semester | Syllabus (Jp & En) |
| Bio-systems Sustainability | Seminar on Bio-systems Sustainability I | 4 | All | Seminer&study_Bio |
| Study on Bio-systems Sustainability I | 8 | All | ||
| Agrobiology | Seminar on Agrobiology I | 4 | All | Seminer&study_Agro |
| Study on Agrobiology I | 8 | All | ||
| Applied Bioscience | Seminar on Applied Bioscience I | 4 | All | Seminer&study_App |
| Study on Applied Bioscience I | 8 | All | ||
| Environmental Resources | Seminar on Environmental Resources I | 4 | All | Seminer&study_Env |
| Study on Environmental Resources I | 8 | All |
Compulsory Elective Subjects
| Division | Subject | Credit | Semester | Syllabus (Jp & En) |
| Bio-systems Sustainability | Safety and Function of Food | 1 | 1st | Safety |
| Seminar on Safety and Function of Food | 1 | 1st | ||
| Agrobiology | Biotechnology | 1 | 3rd | Biotech |
| Seminar on Biotechnology | 1 | 3rd | ||
| Botany and Agronomy | 1 | 2nd | Botany | |
| Seminar on Botany and Agronomy | 1 | 2nd | ||
| General Biology for Animal Production | 1 | 1st | Gen_Bio | |
| Seminar on General Biology for Animal Production | 1 | 1st | ||
| Applied Bioscience | Advanced Review of Food Science | 1 | 1st | Adv_food |
| Seminar on Advanced Food Science | 1 | 1st | ||
| Organic Chemistry for Life Science | 1 | 2nd | Org_chem | |
| Seminar on Organic Chemistry for Life Science | 1 | 2nd | ||
| Molecular Microbiology | 1 | 2nd | Molecular | |
| Seminar on Molecular Microbiology | 1 | 2nd | ||
| Environmental Resources | Regional Environment | 1 | 1st | Regional |
| Seminar on Regional Environment | 1 | 1st | ||
| Advanced Bioproduction Engineering Ⅰ | 1 | 1st | Adv_bio | |
| Advanced Bioproduction Engineering Ⅱ | 1 | 3rd |
General Elective Subjects
| Group | Subject | Credit | Semester | Syllabus (Jp & En) |
| Agrobiology | Plant Nutritional Ecology | 1 | 4th | Plant |
| Seminar on Plant Nutritional Ecology | 1 | 4th | ||
| Advanced Botany and Agronomy | 1 | 3rd | Adv_botany | |
| Seminar on Advanced Botany and Agronomy | 1 | 3rd | ||
| Animal Science | Advanced Animal Breeding and Reproduction | 1 | 2nd | Anim_breed |
| Seminar on Animal Breeding and Reproduction | 1 | 2nd | ||
| Advanced Animal Nutrition | 1 | 3rd | Anim_nut | |
| Seminar on Advanced Animal Nutrition | 1 | 3rd | ||
| Advanced Animal Production System | 1 | 4th | Anim_pro | |
| Seminar on Animal Production System | 1 | 4th | ||
| Bioproduction Engineering | Post-harvest Technology | 1 | 1st | Posthar |
| Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics | Agricultural and rural development | 1 | 2nd | Develop |
| Special Seminar on Development Economics | 1 | 2nd | ||
| Regional Environment | Environmental Informatics for Field Sciences | 1 | 2nd | Env_info |
| Data analysis for Field Science | 1 | 2nd | ||
| Advanced Lectures on Wetland | 1 | 3rd | Wetland | |
| Advanced Regional Environment | 1 | 4th | Regio_env | |
| Advanced Seminar on Regional Environment | 1 | 4th | ||
| Integrated Forest-Landscape Management | Ecology of Forest Resources | 1 | 1st | Forest |
| Seminar for Forest Resources Ecology | 1 | 2nd | ||
| Regional Landscape Management and Design | 1 | 2nd & 3rd | Landscape | |
| Seminar on Regional Landscape Management and Design | 1 | 2nd & 3rd | ||
| Applied Bioscience | Advanced Lecture on Applied Molecular Biology | 1 | 1st | App_mole |
| Advanced Seminar on Applied Molecular Biology | 1 | 1st | ||
| Biomolecular Chemistry | Chemical Biology | 1 | 2nd | Chem_bio |
| Seminar on Chemical Biology | 1 | 2nd | ||
| Advanced Bio-signal Chemistry | 1 | 1st | Biosignal | |
| Advanced Analytical Biochemistry | 1 | 1st | Analybiochem | |
| Gastrointestinal Microbiology | 1 | 2nd | Gastro | |
| Seminar on Gastrointestinal Microbiology | 1 | 2nd | ||
| Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions | 1 | 3rd | Mol_plant | |
| Seminar on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions | 1 | 3rd | ||
| Molecular Environmental Microbiology | 1 | 3rd | Mol_env | |
| Seminar on Molecular Environmental Microbiology | 1 | 3rd | ||
| Advanced Applied Microbiology | 1 | 3rd | Microbio | |
| Seminar on Applied Microbiology | 1 | 3rd | ||
| Nutritional Biochemistry | 1 | 4th | Nutbiochem | |
| Seminar on Nutritional Biochemistry | 1 | 4th | ||
| Advanced Food Biochemistry | 1 | 3rd | Foodbio | |
| Seminar on Advanced Food Biochemistry | 1 | 3rd |
