COURSE: BSC IN HUMAN GENETICS

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

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