This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the soil science industry.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 3 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Computer literacy
- General chemistry
- Academic literacy
- Molecular and cell biology
- General physics
- Calculus
- Plant biology
- Information literacy
- Introduction to microbiology
- Linear algebra
Second year subjects:
- Physical chemistry
- Organic chemistry
- Introductory soil science
- Introductory geology
- Physical geology
- Biometry
- Analytical chemistry
- Inorganic chemistry
- Soil fertility and plant nutrition
- Historical geology
- Environmental geology
Third year subjects:
- Soil classification and surveying
- Soil physics
- Soil chemistry
- Soil mineralogy and soil genesis
Careers: researcher, soil scientist.
Source: www.up.ac.za