This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the geology industry.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 3 years full time
Compulsory Sujects
First year subjects:
- Computer literacy
- General chemistry
- Academic literacy
- Introduction to geology
- Physical geology
- Calculus
- Information literacy
- Historical geology
- Environmental geology
Second year subjects:
- Crystal optics and crystal chemistry
- Mineralogy
- Sedimentology
- Structural geography
- Igneous petrology
- Metamorphic petrology
- Introduction to geophysics
- Groundwater
Third year subjects:
- Ore formation
- Engineering geology
- Ore deposits and ore reservation
Careers: geologist.
Source: www.up.ac.za