This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the human physiology industry.
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
- Mathematics
- Biometry
- Plant biology
- Information literacy
- Introductory genetics
Second year subjects:
- Introduction to proteins and enzymes
- Carbohydrate metabolism
- Introductory neurophysics
- Circulatory physiology
- Gene and chromosome organisation
- Growth diversity and control of bacteria
- Lipids and nitrogen metabolism
- Biochemistry in perspective
- Lung and renal physics, acid and temperature
- Digestive, endocrine and reproductive systems
Third year subjects:
- Histology techniques
- Applied cellular physiology
- Developmental physiology
- Research methodology and literature study
- Immunology
- Industrial physiology
- Nutrition physiology
- Pathophysiology
- Integrated human physiology
Careers: physiologist, researcher.
Source: www.up.ac.za