Course DescriptionARAG 200: Principles of Soil and Water 3 Credit Hours (2+3) The course introduces basic principles of soil and water as they relate to crop production. Physical and chemical interactions affecting the soil. Basics of soil and its relation to agriculture. Soil and water origin and sources in the UAE. Hydrological cycle. Basics of soil and water conservation. ARAG 205: Introduction to Marine Fisheries and Animal Science 3 Credit Hours The course aims to define animal agriculture and its characteristics in aridland agriculture. It describes growth, biology of chicken, technology of reducing the effects of heat stress on egg and meat production, production practices, and genetic improvement of ruminant animals in a desert climate. Overview of marine environment, fish biology, fishing, and aquaculture in the Arabian Gulf. Prerequisite: ARAG 240 ARAG 220: Natural Resources 3 Credit Hours The course is meant to introduce students to the unique geographic region, its characteristics, its ecology, and its environmental systems. The course will emphasize the importance of water and soil management techniques for the balance of environment, sustainability, production and processing of agriculture and foods in UAE and the Gulf region. ARAG 230: Principles of Fisheries Management 3 Credit Hours (2+3) Course description includes relating knowledge from ichthyology and limnology to applied aspects of fishery science. Fisheries techniques applicable to a variety of aquatic habitats. Collection of laboratory and field data and statistical methods used to evaluate field and laboratory data. Topics include distribution, ecology, and life history of fishes common to the UAE region. Fishes impact on ecosystems, management of undesirable fishes. Prerequisite: ARAG 205 ARAG 240: Principles of Food Systems I 3 Credit Hours The course is designed to introduce students to the basic knowledge and practices of food production systems under arid conditions including field crops, fruits, vegetables, livestock, and fisheries, in addition to over viewing agribusiness management and the role of marketing and consumer demand. The course is taught to promote sustainable food systems in order to enhance environmental, economic, and social health of the society. ARAG 304: Range and Pasture Management 3 Credit Hours (2+3) The course aims at studying the principles of utilizing and improving range and pasture crops. It includes range management, grazing systems, forage production, and utilization, and improvement of range, pastures lands in the Gulf, and neighboring countries. Integration of range with other forage plants is also highlighted. Prerequisite: ARAG 205 ARAG 306: Principles of Plant Protection 2 Credit Hours (1+3) This course aims at studying the major pest groups of economic crops and the principle measures for their control. It includes the classification and life - history of selected species of pest groups; the damage induced; the crop loss assessment; principle measures of pest control with examples from pest problems occurring in the UAE. Prerequisite: BIOL 1052 ARAG 307: Introduction to Horticulture 2 Credit Hours (1+3) Course provides a basic understanding of the types of plants used for food production and beautifying the environment. Classification of horticultural plants, structure of horticultural plants, physiological and environmental factors in plant growth, soils and soil management, plant development, seed propagation, asexual propagation, chemical control of plant growth, and landscaping with ornamentals ARAG 308: Soil Fertility and Fertilizers 3 Credit Hours (2+3) The course aims at introducing the basic principles of soil fertility and plant nutrition. It includes essential nutrients, their sources, and interaction in the soil, methods of fertilizer application, soil testing and analysis and its applications in determining plant nutrient deficiencies and needs. Prerequisite: ARAG 200 ARAG 310: Agricultural Technology Transfer 3 Credit Hours (2+3) This course aims at identifying the systems of agricultural technology transfer in the arid areas. It handles the appropriate educational programs and communication methods for technology transfer, organizations of the agricultural technology system, system analysis in technology transfer, diffusion and adoption of technology and staff development for technology transfer in the arid areas ARAG 311: Plant Propagation 2 Credit Hours (1+3) Course description includes the principles and practices associated with sexual and asexual propagation of plants. Biology in plant propagation, anatomical aspects of cutting propagation, types of cuttings and use of growth regulators, stock plant manipulation, different types of propagation, treatments to enhance germination, development of seed-propagated cultivars, seed production processing and storage, biotechnology and seed propagation. Prerequisite: ARAG 307 ARAG 312: Animal Breeding 3 Credit Hours The objective of this course is to provide students with principles and applied methods for genetic improvement of farm animals. It includes: population and quantitative genetics - genetic parameters and estimation - breeding values, new genetic biotechnology – genetic and environmental interaction. Prerequisite: BIOL 1052 ARAG 315: Internship I 1 Credit Hours This course aims at providing professional skills needed for their future work. The training will be for one semester at the college farm and laboratories. It includes training the students on the different technical practices and applications in the field of specialization (animal production and fisheries or horticulture). Prerequisite: Completing 75 Credit Hours ARAG 316: Animal Nutrition 3 Credit Hours (2 + 3) The objective of this course is to provide the students with the basics of animal and poultry nutrition. Digestion, absorption, and metabolism of nutrients (water, protein, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and vitamins). Interrelationships between nutrients, types of feedstuff, biotechnology in animal nutrition are discussed. In addition, it will focus on the role of nutrition in reducing heat stress and animal feeding in aridland. Prerequisite: CHEM 3002 ARAG 317: Anatomy and Physiology of Livestock 3 Credit Hours (2 + 3) Course includes a comprehensive overview of the anatomical terminology, gross and microscopic anatomy of the principal systems of farm animals and learning the homeostasis of mammalian organism. It includes introductory anatomy and physiology of the reproductive systems, and overview of the endocrine system. Prerequisite: BIOL 1052 ARAG 318: Camel Management 3 Credit Hours (2 + 3) The objective of this course is to provide the student with background on the potential merits of the camel and its contribution to milk and meat production. It includes numbers, distribution, types and breeds, husbandry and nutrition, reproductive performance, potentialities of camels and their relation to a desert ecosystem. Feeding and management of racing camels are discussed in detail. Prerequisite: ARAG 316 ARAG 322: Introductory Poultry Production 3 Credit Hours (2 + 3) The course includes egg and meat production in hot climates, incubation, hatchery management, brooding, rearing, housing, equipment, feeding, disease control, and introduction to modern techniques in poultry production, processing, marketing, and price discovery. It covers also consumption trends, breeds, and consumer grades. Prerequisite: ARAG 205 ARAG 323: Post-harvest Physiology of Plant and Animal Systems 3 Credit Hours (2 + 3) Course includes post-harvest physical and chemical changes in plant and animal products affecting sensory properties and nutritional value. Animal products include effects of pre and post-slaughter stress on muscle pH, muscle color, and sensory properties of cooked product, and muscle components. Plant products include effects of dehydration on texture, color changes post-harvest, and modified atmosphere storage and modified ARAG 325: Fisheries Management and Conservation 3 Credit Hours (2+3) Importance of aquatic living resources, current world fisheries and their future, biological principles of fisheries conservation and management, development and implementation of fisheries policy, case histories of successful and unsuccessful fishery management systems. Prerequisite: ARAG 230 ARAG 326: Mariculture 3 Credit Hours (2+3) Controlled spawning, cultivation, harvesting, processing, and marketing of marine and estuarine invertebrates and fishes. How laws and regulations, engineering, and economics affect culture on a worldwide basis. Culture of food items used in rearing marine and estuarine species. Prerequisite: BIOL 434 ARAG 327: Plant Physiology and Environmental Stress 3 Credit Hours (2+3) Course includes the physiological and biochemical processes of plants with emphasis on the effects of environmental stresses on plant growth. It will cover plant cell organization, mineral nutrition, flow of energy, respiration, photosynthesis, mitosis and meiosis, development of vegetative and reproductive structures, phyto hormones, stress physiology, water deficit, drought resistance and salt stress, heat stress, and others. Prerequisite: BIOL 215 ARAG 335: Production Medicine 3 Credit Hours (2 + 3) Course description includes basic disease concepts, fundamentals of immunology and therapeutics, infectious and non-infectious disease prevention principles, pre-harvest food safety and meat and milk product quality assurance, herd health management programs for production efficiency and product quality. Prerequisite: ARAG 317 ARAG 339: Management of Sport Animals 3 Credit Hours (2 + 3) Course covers main breeds and strains of falcons, racing camels and horses. Selection, management, feeding, and health of these types of animals are discussed. Methods of hunting by falcons, rules and regulations of racing camels and horses are described. In addition to topics such as thoroughbred horse racing industry, bloodlines, import/export regulations, management guidelines, and business structure. Prerequisite: ARAG 205 ARAG 344: Soil Chemistry 3 Credit Hours (2+3) The course aims to studying the different aspects of soil chemistry. It includes chemical structure of soils, absorption, ion exchange, alkalinity, acidity, mineral content, chemistry of saline and alkaline soils and methods of soil chemical analysis. Prerequisite: ARAG 308 ARAG 400: Internship II 1 Credit Hour This course aims at providing students with the professional and behavioral skills needed for their future work. The student will get training for 3 weeks in different work sites (Local Municipalities, Agricultural Departments, Ministry of Agriculture and Fishery, farms and research centers) under joint supervision of the college and respective authorities. Prerequisite: Completing 75 Credit Hours ARAG 401: Sustainable Agriculture in Aridlands 3 Credit Hours (2+3) The course aims at studying the principles of sustainable agriculture under different farming systems. This includes conservation of natural resources, farming systems, farm management, low input agriculture, and greater use of biological and genetic potential of plant species and studying case studies from arid environments. Prerequisite: ARAG 220 ARAG 404: Vegetable Production in Aridlands 3 Credit Hours (2+3) This course aims at providing students with commercial production methods of vegetable crops under arid conditions. The course also covers agricultural practices, physiology, and physiological disorders, in addition to vegetable production in greenhouses. Overview of greenhouse construction and management. Prerequisite: ARAG 307 ARAG 406: Plant Breeding and Tissue Culture 3 Credit Hours (2+3) The course aims at introducing the use of breeding methods and tissue culture in modification of plant characteristics. It includes topics in methods of breeding self and cross-pollinated plants, besides tissue cultural techniques, and genetic engineering. Prerequisite: BIOL 371 ARAG 410: Fruit Production in Aridlands 3 Credit Hours (2+3) This course aims at studying the physiological and ecological factors affecting fruit tree production under arid land condition. It includes fruit species cultivars and cultural practices, with emphasis on fruit trees adapted to high temperature, drought, water, and soil salinity. Prerequisite: ARAG 307 ARAG 413: Seminar in Animal Science 1 Credit Hour This course presents topics of interest related to the various disciplines of animal science including nutrition, reproduction, and genetics and breeding. Students will be assigned topics for oral presentations under supervision of course advisors. Improvement strategies, as well as challenges presented by new developments in animal production industries are addressed in a seminar-discussion type during the course ARAG 415: Salt Tolerant Plant Materials 2 Credit Hours (1+3) This course introduces the student to the important horticultural plant species that are used for food production and for ornamental purposes in the landscape in an arid environment with high salt content irrigation water. Plant identification, adaptation, and utilization will be covered. Course includes plant classification, fruits, vegetables, woody ornamentals, herbaceous ornamentals, grasses and native plants. Prerequisite: ARAG 307 ARAG 416: Agricultural Biotechnology 3 Credit Hours (2+3) The objective of this course is to describe the basic principles of molecular biology, and to discuss the current knowledge in biotechnology and its application in agriculture. The course will include; gene cloning techniques, regulation of gene transcription, application of biotechnology in agriculture, genetic engineering. Prerequisite: BIOL 1052 ARAG 420: Seminar in Marine Fisheries 1 credit Hour This course presents topics of interest related to the various disciplines in marine fisheries. Students will be assigned topics in fisheries sciences for oral presentations under supervision of course advisors. Improvement strategies, as well as challenges presented by new developments in marine fisheries industries are addressed in a seminar-discussion type during the course ARAG 423: Dairy Cattle Management 3 Credit Hours (2+3) This course emphasizes on science, technology, management, and business associated with dairy cattle production. Biology of dairy cattle with emphasis on genetics, reproduction, lactation, and nutrition are discussed. Management and adaptation of dairy cattle in arid zone are given special consideration. Prerequisite: ARAG 205 ARAG 424: Fish Breeding and Propagation 3 Credit Hours (2+3) This course provides the students with the basic knowledge about fish breeding, including reproductive systems, endocrine glands and their relation to gonads maturation, reproduction, broodstock selection, natural spawning and induced breeding, sex reversal, larval rearing and hatchery management. Prerequisite: ARAG 326 ARAG 430: Fisheries Stock Assessment 3 Credit Hours (2+3) Emphasizes quantitative analysis of fisheries data to determine how the fishery would respond to alternative management actions. Major topics include production models, stock, and recruitment, catch at age analysis, and formulation of harvest strategies. Prerequisite: ARAG 325 ARAG 432: Sheep and Goat Production 3 Credit Hours (2 + 3) This course aims to provide student with the principal and applied knowledge in sheep and goat production. The course includes: the importance of sheep and goat production in arid region – field and management practices applied in sheep and goat farms such as reproduction, nutrition, selection, intensive lamb and goat production and dairy goats. Prerequisite: ARAG 205 ARAG 433: Fish Nutrition 3 Credit Hours (2+3) This course provides the students with the basic knowledge on fish nutrition. It will generally cover feeding habits, digestive systems, food digestion, absorption and metabolism, natural food, nutritional requirements of farmed fish (protein, lipids, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals), feed formulation, feeding regimes and recent approaches in fish nutrition. Prerequisite: ARAG 326 ARAG 434: Reproductive Physiology 3 Credit Hours (2 + 3) The course provides students with basic information on reproductive functions and their characteristics in farm animals and evaluation of reproduction of herds and solving problems facing the breeder. It includes the study of reproductive organs of farm animals; hormones and their relationships with reproductive functions, gamete production, conception, pregnancy, and parturition. Seasonality, semen production, artificial insemination, multiple ovulation, and embryo transfer are also included. Prerequisite: ARAG 335 ARAG 435: Egg Production 3 Credit Hours (2+3) Course description includes all phases of commercial egg production such as strain selection in adaptation to environment, egg gathering and handling, environmental controls as in lighting management, temperature management nutrition, housing, breeding, disease control, harvesting, and marketing concerns. Laboratory sessions will emphasize practical application of skills. Prerequisite: ARAG 205 ARAG 436: Poultry Meat Production 3 Credit Hours (2+3) Course description includes all phases of poultry, meat production from chickens and turkeys such as selection of strains-preferred size and adaptation to temperature, breeding and genetic problems caused by intense selection for high meat production, reproductive performance, lighting system, health and vaccination program, nutrition, environmental control, computer record keeping, harvesting and transportation. Prerequisite: ARAG 205 ARAG 437: Disease and Insect Pests 3 Credit Hours (2+3) This course covers important diseases and insect pests of horticultural plants. It will include the principles of economic entomology, the economic importance of insect and non-insect pests of plants used in an arid environment. Plant diseases, their causal organisms, the symptoms that they induce, the damage that they cause and the common measures for their control will also be covered. Prerequisite: ARAG 306 ARAG 439: Pesticides 3 Credit Hours (2+3) This course aims at studying the importance of using pesticides in agriculture and the problems associated with it. It includes studying the different methods of chemical control, pesticide classes, toxicity of insecticides and their modes of action, different methods of pesticide analysis, the effect of pesticides on the environment and natural enemies, and recent advances in pest control. Prerequisite: ARAG 306 ARAG 443: Irrigation, Drainage, and Water Management 3 Credit Hours (2+3) This course provides students an introduction to irrigation through discussion of water resources, soil-water characteristics, and crop water requirements. Students study the design of irrigation and drainage systems. Surface and pressurized irrigation systems and drainage systems for salinity control are evaluated. The course also covers concepts and issues involved in water management and conservation. Prerequisite: ARAG 200 ARAG 450: Advanced Animal Nutrition 3 Credit Hours (2+3) Course description includes the metabolism of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, minerals, and water, and the relationship of nutrient utilization to animal growth and production. Topics will include digestion, absorption, and metabolism of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, minerals, and water. Functions of minerals and vitamins in animal nutrition. Interrelationship of minerals, vitamins, and resultant symptoms of deficiency or toxicity. Prerequisite: ARAG 316 ARAG 451: Landscape Management for Aridland Agriculture 3 Credit Hours (2+3) Course covers plant growth, soil and its effect on plant growth, planting site evaluation, species selection, obtaining quality plants, plant installation, preventing construction damage, care after planting, weed management, pruning trees and shrubs, fertilizing landscape plants, plant health care, diagnosing landscape plant health problems. Prerequisite: ARAG 307 ARAG 452: Palms and Dates 3 Credit Hours (2+3) This course aims at improving date palm productivity especially under arid conditions. It includes studying the morphology, physiology environmental conditions and cultural practices that affect productivity such as punition, pruning, and thinning. Methods to improve fruit quality, varieties, and diseases are studied. Prerequisite: ARAG 307 ARAG 453: Indoor Plants and Flower Arrangements 3 Credit Hours (2+3) This course aims at introducing indoor plants and flower arrangement. It includes identification of indoor plants and their propagation, planting, the environmental requirements for growing, maintenance and their use interior landscaping. It also includes production of cut flowers and flower arrangement. Prerequisite: ARAG 307 ARAG 454: Landscape Design 3 Credit Hours (2+3) This course aims at introducing the principles of landscaping and different landscape styles. It includes landscape design and maintenance of different public and private gardens with emphasis on arid landscaping. Prerequisite: ARAG 307 ARAG 456: Turfgrass Management 3 Credit Hours (2+3) This course introduces students to the principles and culture of turf. Adaptation of turf species to arid environments, growth and establishments, growth and establishments, growth and establishment, maintenance, fertility, pest management, irrigation, mowing, seed production, equipment and management will all be emphasized. Uses of turf for different landscaping and identification of vegetative turf grasses. Prerequisite: ARAG 307 ARAG 457: Issues in Animal Protein Production 2 Credit Hours Course aims to explore the social, political, and environmental forces, which will affect food animal production in the future. Topics will include presentations by invited speakers, university faculty, as well as the student class members. Topics will include water quality, water quantity and distribution, biodiversity loss, desertification, terrestrial as well as marine, food safety, international trade-GATT, animal rights, animal welfare, genetic engineering, biotechnology, and air quality. Prerequisite: ARAG 205 ARAG 480: Senior Project (Capstone Course) 4 Credit Hours (2+4) The course is a capstone course to be individually designed by the faculty advisor for each senior student to integrate all courses and training of the student, from all activities involved by the student, during his/her entire stay at UAEU. Research methods, analysis of data collected, interpretation, and hypothesis must be developed by the students on a specific topic. A written thesis is to be produced by the student at the end of the course. Prerequisite: Completing 90 Credit Hours Courses offered to other collegesARAG 110: Biotechnology in Our Contemporary Life 3 Credit Hours The objective of this course is to provide the student with the basic information of the biotechnology and to get acquainted with its historical development, present and future status. The course describes the scientific basis of genetic engineering, the application of biotechnology in our contemporary life in the fields of agriculture, medicine, and industry ARAG 120: Ornamental Horticulture 3 Credit Hours The course aims at studying cultural practices, maintenance, and landscaping of ornamental plants specially those plants that grow well under UAE conditions. It also includes the environmental requirements and landscaping of the indoor plants, and cut flower & flower arrangement ARAG 210: Principles of Soil and Water 3 Credit Hours (Geography Department) The course introduces basic principles of soil and water as they relate to crop production. Physical and chemical interactions affecting the soil. Basics of soil and its relation to agriculture. Soil and water origin and sources in the UAE. Hydrological cycle. Basics of soil and water conservation ARAG 463: Water Management for Agriculture 3 Credit Hours (2+3) (Geology Program) This course is designed to provide students with basic concepts and issues involved in water management and conservation. Water resources and development. Water resources and development. Influence of irrigation on hydrological processes. Reducing evaporation and deep percolation losses, effective use of water in irrigated agriculture and modification of soil-water region
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