This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the environmental and geography industries.

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


• Historical geology


• Environmental geology


• Mechanics

Second year subjects:

• Crystal optics and crystal chemistry


• Mineralogy


• Sedimentology


• Structural geology


• Strength of materials


• Igneous petrology


• Metamorphic petrology


• Introduction to geophysics\


• Groundwater

Third year subjects:

• Ore formation


• Engineering geology


• Soil mechanics


• Ore deposits


• Geo statistics and ore reservation calculation


• Rock mechanics

Careers: environmentalist, geological engineer, geologist.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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