This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the animal science industry.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 3 years full time
Compulsory Sujects
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
- Animal anatomy and physiology
- Gene and chromosome organization
- Growth diversity and control bacteria
- Nutrition
- Animal science
- Lipid and nitrogen metabolism
- Biochemistry in perspective
- Growth activities and control fungi
Third year subjects:
- Immunology
- Animal anatomy
- Animal physiology
- Genomes
- Reproduction science
- Nutrition science
- Principles of veld management
- Xeno-biochemistry
- Growth physiology
- Human genetics
- Animal breeding
- Animal ecology
- Animal science and biotechnology
Careers: animal specialist.
Source: www.up.ac.za