COURSE: BSC (AGRIC) IN SOIL SCIENCE

This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the soil 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


• General physics


• Mathematics


• Biometry


• Plant biology


• Information literacy


• Introductory genetics


• Introduction to microbiology


• Animal diversity

Second year subjects:

• Introduction to proteins and enzymes


• Physical chemistry


• Organic chemistry


• Introductory soil science


• Introduction to financial management in agriculture


• Introduction to agricultural production economics


• Introduction to crop protection


• Sustainable production systems


• Plant biochemistry evolution


• Analytical chemistry


• Inorganic chemistry


• Soil fertilisation and plant nutrition


• Crop propagation


• Agroclimatology

Third year subjects:

• Soil classification and surveying


• Soil physics


• Physical geology


• Soil water relations and irrigation


• Principles of veld management


• Industrial crops


• Soil chemistry


• Historical geology


• Fruit production

Fourth year subjects:

• Biometry


• Land use planning


• Environmental biophysics


• Weed science


• Crop physiology


• Environmental management


• Soil mineralogy and genesis

Careers: plant production manager, plant production analyst.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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