This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the human genetics 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
- Introductory neurophysics
- Circulatory physiology
- Gene and chromosome organisation
- Growth diversity and control of bacteria
- Lipids and nitrogen metabolism
- Biochemistry in perspective
- Lung and renal physics, acid and temperature
- Genetic analysis and manipulation
Third year subjects:
- Biochemistry of proteins
- Biochemistry of nucleic acid
- Immunobiology
- Eukaryotic gene construction and development
- Genomes
- Advanced population genetics
- Human genetics
- Evolution and phylo-genetics
- Applied medical genetics
Careers: human genetic scientist, researcher.
Source: www.up.ac.za