COURSE: BSC IN HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY

This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the human physiology 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

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


• Digestive, endocrine and reproductive systems

Third year subjects:

• Histology techniques


• Applied cellular physiology


• Developmental physiology


• Research methodology and literature study


• Immunology


• Industrial physiology


• Nutrition physiology


• Pathophysiology


• Integrated human physiology

Careers: physiologist, researcher.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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