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