This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the ecology 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:
- Plant ecophysionolgy
- Plant ecology
- Population ecology
- Community ecology
- Plant diversity
- Ecophysiology
- Evolution and phylogeny
- Conservation ecology
Careers: ecologist and researcher.
Source: www.up.ac.za