Bachelor of Science Honours in Indigenous Medicinal Resources
This Programme
The Department of Indigenous Medicinal Resources offers Bachelor of Science Honours in Indigenous Medicinal Resources that is a specialized four-year full-time degree program.
Catering to a growing market in natural curatives, remedies and medicines as well as increasing global understanding of the positive health effects of natural foods, the program enables students to position themselves at that rare position of being skilled in the tri-factor of natural food production technology, natural medicinal herb technology and organic agrarian livestock development and management and allow them to compete for highly lucrative emerging employment opportunities
Catering to a growing market in natural curatives, remedies and medicines as well as increasing global understanding of the positive health effects of natural foods, the program enables students to position themselves at that rare position of being skilled in the tri-factor of natural food production technology, natural medicinal herb technology and organic agrarian livestock development and management and allow them to compete for highly lucrative emerging employment opportunities
Introduction
This is a four-year honours degree in Indigenous Medicinal Resources offered by the Department of Indigenous Medical Resources, Faculty of Indigenous Health Sciences and Technology, Gampaha Wickramarachchi University of Indigenous Medicine. The students qualified with a noted Z-score in the Biological Science and Agricultural Science streams of the G.C.E A/L examination will be eligible to apply for this program. Most of the countries including Sri Lanka have thousands of years of indigenous knowledge and inheritable technology, especially for the traditional agricultural practices. The knowledge and technology were concentrated on western notions after the social transformation led by the Renaissance and Westernization during the 15th century. This Bachelor of Science Honours in Indigenous Medicinal Resources Degree Program - BSc (Hons) in IMR is presented to fill the gap between Western and indigenous knowledge for the development of indigenous medicinal resources.
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