COURSE: BSC IN HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, GENETICS AND ...

This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the human physiology, physchology and genetics industries.

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


• Psychological perspectives


• Mathematics


• Biometry


• Biological basis of behaviour


• Information literacy


• Introductory genetics

Second year subjects:

• Introduction to proteins and enzymes


• Carbohydrate metabolism


• Introductory neurophysics


• Circulatory physiology


• Gene and chromosome organisation


• Psychology


• Lipids and nitrogen metabolism


• Biochemistry in perspective


• Lung and renal physics, acid and temperature


• Digestive, endocrine and reproductive systems


• General analysis and manipulation


• Psychology

Third year subjects:

• Immunology


• Eukaryotic gene construction and development


• Genomes


• Psychology


• Nutrition physiology


• Higher neurological functions


• Pathophysiology


• Human genetics

Careers: physiologist, researcher, psychologist.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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