COURSE: BSC IN ANIMAL SCIENCE

This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the animal science industry.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Sujects

First year subjects:

• Computer literacy


• General chemistry


• Academic literacy


• Molecular and cell biology


• General physics


• Mathematics


• Biometry


• Plant biology


• Information literacy


• Introductory genetics


• Introduction to microbiology


• Animal diversity

Second year subjects:

• Introduction to proteins and enzymes


• Carbohydrate metabolism


• Animal anatomy and physiology


• Gene and chromosome organization


• Growth diversity and control bacteria


• Nutrition


• Animal science


• Lipid and nitrogen metabolism


• Biochemistry in perspective


• Growth activities and control fungi

Third year subjects:

• Immunology


• Animal anatomy


• Animal physiology


• Genomes


• Reproduction science


• Nutrition science


• Principles of veld management


• Xeno-biochemistry


• Growth physiology


• Human genetics


• Animal breeding


• Animal ecology


• Animal science and biotechnology

Careers: animal specialist.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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