COURSE: BSC IN GEOLOGY

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

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Sujects

First year subjects:

• Computer literacy


• General chemistry


• Academic literacy


• Introduction to geology


• Physical geology


• Calculus


• Information literacy


• Historical geology


• Environmental geology

Second year subjects:

• Crystal optics and crystal chemistry


• Mineralogy


• Sedimentology


• Structural geography


• Igneous petrology


• Metamorphic petrology


• Introduction to geophysics


• Groundwater

Third year subjects:

• Ore formation


• Engineering geology


• Ore deposits and ore reservation

Careers: geologist.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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