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