COURSE: BSC IN GEOINFORMATICS

This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the geoinformatics industry.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Sujects

First year subjects:

• Computer literacy


• Academic literacy


• Cartographic skills


• Introduction to human geography


• Introduction to environmental sciences


• Informatics


• Calculus


• Information literacy


• Remote sensing


• SA and global geomorphology


• Climate and weather of South Africa


• Linear Algebra

Second year subjects:

• Geographic data analysis


• Remote sensing


• Informatics


• Statistics


• Surveying

Third year subjects:

• Special analysis


• Remote sensing


• Geomatics


• Geographic information systems


• Cartography

Careers: Geoinformatics specialist.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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