This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the animal science industry.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 4 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Computer literacy
- General chemistry
- Academic literacy
- Molecular and cell biology
- Mathematics
- Biometry
- Plant biology
- Information literacy
- Introductory genetics
- Introduction to microbiology
- Animal diversity
Second year subjects:
- Introduction to proteins and enzymes
- Carbohydrate metabolism
- Animal anatomy and physiology
- Introduction to soil science
- Gene and chromosome organisation
- Introduction to financial management in agriculture
- Sustainable production systems
- Nutrition
- Animal science
- Lipid and nitrogen metabolism
- Biochemistry in perspective
- Genetic analysis and manipulation
- Agroclimatology
Third year subjects:
- Biometry
- Animal anatomy
- Animal physiology
- Reproduction science
- Nutrition science
- Principles of veld management
- Growth physiology
- Animal breeding
- Animal ecology
- Animal science biotechnology
- Planted past and fodder crops
Fourth year subjects:
- Large stock science
- Poultry science
- Animal breeding
- Nutrition science
- Animal science pharmacology
- Research methodology
- Wool science
- Small stock science
- Pig science
- Meat and diary science
- Wildlife science
Careers: animal scientist, researcher.
Source: www.up.ac.za