This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the veterinary industry.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 3 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Computer literacy
- General chemistry
- Academic literacy
- Molecular and cell biology
- General physics
- Biometry
- Plant biology
- Information literacy
- Introduction to microbiology
- Introductory genetics
- Animal diversity
Second year subjects:
- Introduction to proteins and enzymes
- Carbohydrate metabolism
- Gene and chromosome organisation
- Growth diversity and control of bacteria
- Nutrition
- Animal science
- Lipid and nitrogen metabolism
- Biochemistry in perspective
- Genetic analysis and manipulation
- Growth activities and control of fungi
Third year subjects:
- Immunobiology
- Veterinary virology
- Productive animal behaviour
- Veterinary anatomy and physiology
- Principles of veld management
- Live stock breeding
- Animal science
- Animal ecology
Careers: veterinarian.
Source: www.up.ac.za