This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the biological 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 protein and enzymes
- Carbohydrate metabolism
- Physical chemistry
- Organic chemistry
- Lipid and nitrogen metabolism
- Biochemistry in perspective
- Analytical chemistry
- Inorganic chemistry
Third year subjects:
- Biochemistry of proteins
- Proteome analysis
- Immunobiology
- Nutritional biochemistry
- Xeno biochemistry
- Enzymology
Careers: biologist, researcher.
Source: www.up.ac.za