Speciality Requirements Student must complete 30 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
495501	Experimental Design and Data Analysis	3
This course looks at the principles and methods of experimental design and statistical analysis. It also introduces completely randomised design, factorial experiments, Latin square, split-plot design, correlation and regression.
495510	Advanced Ruminant Nutrition	3
This course looks at a variety of topics including the recent advances in ruminant nutrition, nutrient content of feed ingredients, formulating diet for optimum biological performance (milk and meat) and nutritional management of ruminant animals.
495511	Advanced non Ruminant Nutrition	3
This course looks at a variety of topics including nutrients, digestion, absorption, metabolism, food ingredients, feed evaluation and ration formulation for poultry.
495516	Advanced Agri-business Marketing	3
This course deals with economic analysis of current issues in agricultural marketing: market structure, risk, efficiency, commodity promotion, futures, and options markets, retained ownership options, management of agribusiness enterprises. It also covers consumption trends, products and services development, and evaluation of their feasibility, competitive advantages and profitability.
495517	Advanced Agri-business Enterprise Management	3
This course is designed to cover concepts of agri-business management and prepares the students to implement economic and management skills (organization, financing, management, marketing of agricultural products, and risk management etc.), farm management and agricultural businesses, apply computer models, participating in leadership activities and gaining skills to seek employment in agribusinesses. The course also deals with case studies from actual situations that are used extensively.
495518	Field Research Techniques	3
This course discusses means to support graduate students to develop their skills in applied research (proposal writing, data collection and analysis) and issues and considerations pertaining to scientific research. The course also covers methodologies, challenges and organization, research tools, and communicate research funding
495522	Advanced Biochemistry	3
This course consists of a study of the biochemical aspects of carbohydrate, lipid and protein utilisation by animals, with emphasis on their interrelations and uniqueness of individual organs and tissues in metabolism and uniqueness of individual organs and tissues in metabolism as well as their homeostatic regulation
495523	Advanced Animal Breeding	3
This course covers various topics including the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium changes of gene frequency resemblance between relatives genetic parameters selection for quantitative traits, prediction and results, correlated characters performance in different environments, genotype x environment interactions, correlated response to selection, selection index theory and practice evaluation of breeding values.
495599	Thesis	6
In this course, the graduate student must submit a thesis and pass an oral defence related to his/her thesis.

Speciality Optional Requirements Student must complete 6 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
495514	Advanced Topics in Animal Physiology	3
Topics covered in this course include a study of the physical and chemical principles governing the lives (development, growth and productivity) of farm animals. Students will develop an understanding the influence of the environmental elements on the animal physiological processes.
495515	Feeds Evaluation	3
This course covers many topics including the recent advances in forage analysis systems, effect of forage on ruminant productivity, forage utilisation by ruminant animals and animal production systems based on forages throughout the Middle East area.
495524	Poultry Breeding	3
Topics covered in this course include poultry breeds, commercial poultry lines and strains, breeding value measurements, influence of nutrition and environment on poultry, selection, mating systems and artificial insemination in poultry.
495525	Energy Metabolism	3
Topics covered in this course include energy constituents of feedstuff and energy needs of animals. There will also be a discussion of cellular biochemical and physiological concepts of energy metabolism.
495526	Protein Metabolism	3
This course covers nutritional regulation of amino acid metabolism and regulation of protein metabolism. It also integrates biochemical and physiological functions of amino acids and related topics in regulation of whole body protein turnover in mammalians and birds.
495527	Advanced Reproductive Physiology	3
Topics covered in this course include mechanisms of reproductive physiology including puberty, estrus, gamete production, fertilisation, gestation and parturition in mammals with emphasis on aspects endocrinology.
495530	Endocrinology & Enzymes	3
This course includes regulatory aspects of hormones and their biological effects on reproduction, growth and development in mammals.
495531	Computer Programs & Statistical Data Analysis	3
This course looks at experimental design for animals, analysis of variance , GLM, least square analysis and mixed model analysis.
495532	Advanced Topics in Livestock Management	3
This course cover all livestock farms, new approaches and techniques in farm management.
495533	Advanced Dairy Technology	3
Topics include the physical and chemical properties of milk, modern techniques in processing and manufacturing dairy products.
495534	Advanced Meat Science	3
Topics in this course include meat composition and components, factors affect it, changes associated with nutrition, age, management and new techniques in meat production and processing.