The
Master of Professional Studies (MPS) degree program in the
field of International Agriculture and Rural Development (IARD)
at Cornell University is designed for individuals with professional
experience in the developing world.
This interdisciplinary
program, based in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
(CALS), has the flexible design that is needed by development
professionals from diverse disciplinary backgrounds.
The IARD program
is suited for students who want advanced training but without
disciplinary restrictions or emphasis on research methodologies.
This is a program for those who want to undertake studies
in a broad range of interrelated subjects that is aligned
with the interdisciplinary challenges needing to be confronted
in developing countries.
Agriculture in the Developing
Nations II - INTAG 602
To give students an opportunity to experience agriculture
in developing countries first hand, the IARD MPS program offers
participation in an annual trip with the INTAG
602 course. This a two-week trip to the tropics between
fall and winter semesters. Host countries have included Puerto
Rico, Dominican Republic. Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras and
Ecuador. The January 2007 trip will be to India or Mexico. During the
field trip, students visit agricultural institutions, both
large and small, public and private, and natural resource
management programs. They study soils, crops, and animals
under a wide range of ecological, social, and economic conditions.
The trip gives students an opportunity to see agriculture,
touch it, and smell it. Such experience cannot be equaled
in any classroom. A reunion
of INTAG 602 alumni from the last 30 years was held March
19-22, 2000 in Costa Rica.
For more information about this field of study, click on the links listed below or feel free to contact Professor Steven Kyle.
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