COURSE: BSC IN VETERINARY BIOLOGY

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


• Biometry


• Plant biology


• Information literacy


• Introduction to microbiology


• Introductory genetics


• Animal diversity

Second year subjects:

• Introduction to proteins and enzymes


• Carbohydrate metabolism


• Gene and chromosome organisation


• Growth diversity and control of bacteria


• Nutrition


• Animal science


• Lipid and nitrogen metabolism


• Biochemistry in perspective


• Genetic analysis and manipulation


• Growth activities and control of fungi

Third year subjects:

• Immunobiology


• Veterinary virology


• Productive animal behaviour


• Veterinary anatomy and physiology


• Principles of veld management


• Live stock breeding


• Animal science


• Animal ecology

Careers: veterinarian.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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