This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the zoology 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
- Mathematics
- Biometry
- Plant biology
- Information literacy
- Introduction to microbiology
- Introductory genetics
- Animal diversity
Second year subjects:
- Introduction to proteins and enzymes
- Carbohydrate metabolism
- SA flora and vegetation
- Gene and chromosome organisation
- Growth diversity and control of bacteria
- Invertebrate biology
- Plant biochemistry evolution
- Historical geology
- Environmental geology
- Genetic analysis and manipulation
- Growth activities and control of fungi
- African invertebrate
Third year subjects:
- Population ecology
- Mammalogy
- Community ecology
- Physiology
- Ecophysiology
- Evolution and phylogeny
- Behavioural ecology
- Conservation ecology
Careers: zoologist
Source: www.up.ac.za