This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the plant pathology 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
- Introduction to 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
- Lipid and nitrogen metabolism
- Biochemistry in perspective
- Plant biochemical evolution
- Genetic analysis and manipulation
- Plant genetic and biotechnology
- Growth activities and control of fungi
Third year subjects:
- Plant ecophysiology
- Structure and diversity of viruses
- Environmental microbiology
- General plant pathology
- Molecular biology of prokaryotes
- Gene manipulation and microbes
- Plant disease control
- Host pathogen interactions
Careers: plant pathologist, researcher.
Source: www.up.ac.za