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