This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the animal science and pasture science industries.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 4 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
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
- Animal anatomy and physiology
- Gene and chromosome organisation
- Sustainable production systems
- Nutrition
- Animal science
- Lipid and nitrogen metabolism
- Biochemistry in perspective
- Genetic analysis and manipulation
- Agroclimatology
Third year subjects:
- Animal anatomy
- Animal physiology
- Introduction to soil science
- Introduction to financial management in agriculture
- Introduction to agricultural production economics
- Reproduction science
- Nutrition science
- Principles of veld management
- Growth physiology
- Soil fertility and plant nutrition
- Animal breeding
- Planted past and fodder crops
Fourth year subjects:
- Biometry
- Soil classification and surveying
- Large stock science
- Land use planning
- Nutrition science
- Research methodology
- Crop physiology
- Small stock science
- Meat and diary science
- Wildlife science
Careers: animal scientist, researcher.
Source: www.up.ac.za