This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the plant pathology industry.
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
- Introduction to soil science
- Gene and chromosome organisation
- Introduction to financial management in agriculture
- Introduction to agricultural production economics
- Introduction to crop protection
- Plant biochemistry evolution
- Soil fertilisation and plant nutrition
- Gene analysis and manipulation
- Crop propagation
- Agricultural economics
- Growth activities and control of fungi
- Principles of plant pathology
Third year subjects:
- Plant ecophysiology
- Growth diversity and control of bacteria
- Structure and diversity of viruses
- General plant pathology
- Sustainable production
- Plant genetics and biotechnology
- Gene manipulation and microbes
- Plant disease control
- Host pathogen interactions
Fourth year subjects:
- Biometry
- Environmental microbiology
- Weed science
- Research project
- Agroclimatology
- Molecular biology of prokaryotes
- Experimental design and analysis
- Nursery and seed pathology
- Insect pest management
Careers: plant pathologist.
Source: www.up.ac.za