The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) had its genesis from establishment of an Agricultural School at Saidapet, Madras, Tamil Nadu, as early as 1868 and it was later relocated at Coimbatore.
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M.Sc. (Ag.) in Agricultural Extension Education
Prelude
- In the whims and wheels of changing rural scenario the complex environment the reach out to the downtrodden ,have nots and deprived tribals are to be addressed not only to solve issues ,but to promote their standard of living by creating avenues of employment ,studying their anthropology, epistemological cognition to adopt proper technologies ,sociological perspective ,cultural ethos ,religious dogmas to penetrate for success .
- The use of media and ICT tools are effectively used for accessibility and adoptability with the existential evidence on the performance of the technologies generated by the university
- The degree imparts the leadership skills to become social entrepreneurs ,media education ,video production ,video editing to make the students become freelancers
- The students excellence is furthered with robust communication skills to work in the fields such as bank ,non- governmental organisation
- The students study the impact and outcome of the researches to offer policy suggestions to the government for strategic and system planning
- The degree focusses to analyse the potential an actual yield gap to give a concrete road map for future research
- Extension propels all sectors to lead an elevated standard by sensitising on the schemes ,projects ,developments made by the government,marching towards inclusive growth
Why this programme?
- Interpersonal skills for socializing with multi stakeholders in agricultural production.
- Impart Communication skills for better field expert and to deliver goods and a fitting corporate employee
- Nurture people skills for enhanced conviction on the significance of Conservation, development and use of natural resources.
- Teaches better Managerial skills for state of the art farm management
- Triggers confidence building exercises among the youth to retain in farming
- Develop Youth in media research and ICT Research perspectives
- Leadership development to occupy administrative cadres
- Community development and rural area development.
- Public affairs for policy planning
Study Programme
The Masters programme in Agricultural Extension Education has been designed following the UGC guidelines. The course imparts:
- To create an enabling ambience for the students for better learning
- To develop globally competitive human capacity in extension education
- To promote research on frontier areas of agriculture and its allied activities.
- To foster international alliances and collaborative initiatives to reach global excellence.
- To inculcate entrepreneurial skills of the students
- To impart all sorts of comprehensive soft skills
- To nuture creative intelligence for media field to develop disruptive innovations
- To teach sociological algorithms to work with good psyche to address farmers crestfallen attitude to rebuild for the strikingly positive attitude
- To teach sociological algorithms to work with good psyche to address farmers crestfallen attitude to rebuild for the strikingly positive attitude
Colleges offering M.Sc. (Ag.) in Agricultural Extension Education
The master programme in M.Sc. (Ag.) in Agricultural Extension Education is offered by the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology, CARDS in Coimbatore campus and in two other campuses with the same name such as AC&RI, Madurai and AC&RI, Killikulam.
Application and Admission
- Applications are invited from the eligible candidates with the eligible OGPA.
- An open advertisement will be given for admission.
- Entrance examination will be conducted for screening and selection.
- Allocation and adoption of quota is followed EWS, Community and ICAR.
- Seats are allotted based on the approval of the Dean (SPGS) and subjected for variation based on the seats allotment
Future Career
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Master’s in Agricultural Extension course
Master Courses
♦ Upon admission, the students undergo a sequence of courses that support them to understand and comprehend the basics of Agricultural Extension as per the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) with a total credit load of 70 credits, of which 30 credits are exclusively earmarked for their Thesis Research.
Master’s thesis research
♦ On completion of the prescribed courses in the first year, the students initiate their thesis research.
♦ Each student is assigned to an experienced faculty, approved by the Dean of School of Post-Graduate Studies, who would guide the student on his/ her choice of research topic
Research internship
♦ The students are exposed to several scientific events like symposia and conferences.
♦ A sizeable proportion are encouraged to have internship training at other institutes for a couple of months, either in India or abroad.
Student Experiences
My name is V.Iniya. I am currently pursuing I M.Sc in this department. I am very proud to say that I had chosen this department after my completion of Under Graduate programme when I had no idea of which discipline to choose after UG. At first I was very nervous to enter the department. But it became like a family to me after some months since the faculty of the department are very student friendly and the students of the department are very helpful. The facilities of the department are the need of the hour for any extension functionary, especially the DEIL Lab facility.
This is Riyas Babu from the Dept. of AE&RS, TNAU, Coimbatore. Due to the compulsion of my family only I planned to join PG. That too during the UG days, students used to say that extension is abstract . But when I came to experience the real time aspect, it is entirely different. It checks our own personality and teaches much to us, that too with the recent BSMA syllabus, it is very useful to know many aspects in extension education. The entrepreneurial skills taught during the course might help me to become a future entrepreneur.
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