COURSE: BSC IN ENTOMOLOGY

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

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Sujects

First year subjects:

• Computer literacy


• General chemistry


• Academic literacy


• General physics


• Molecular and cell biology


• Mathematics


• Biometry


• Plant biology


• Information literacy


• Introductory genetics


• Introductory microbiology


• Animal diversity

Second year subjects:

• Introduction to proteins and enzymes


• Carbohydrate metabolism


• SA flora and vegetation


• Gene and chromosome organisation


• Growth diversity and control of bacteria


• Invertebrate biology


• Plant biochemical evolution


• Historical geology


• Environmental geology


• Genetic analysis and manipulation


• Growth activities and control of fungi


• African invertebrates

Third year subjects:

• Population ecology


• Community ecology


• Physiology


• Insect diversity


• Ecophysiology


• Evolution and phylogeny


• Insect pest management


• Conservation ecology

Careers: entomologist.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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