COURSE: BSC IN EARTH SCIENCE

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

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Sujects

First year subjects:

• Computer literacy


• General chemistry


• Academic literacy


• Introductory geology


• Physical geology


• Calculus


• Information literacy


• General chemistry


• Remote sensing


• SA and Global geomorphology


• Historical geology


• Environmental geology


• Climate and weather of SA

Second year subjects:

• Process geomorphology


• Introductory Geographic Information Science


• Introductory soil science


• Geographic data analysis

Third year subjects:

• Soil classification and surveying


• Environmental geomorphology


• Landscape analysis


• Spatial analysis

Careers: geographer, geologist, GIS specialist and researcher.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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