COURSE: NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN SURVEYING

The course equips students with theoretical and practical geomatics knowledge and skills, relevant to the needs of industry and society at large. Graduates of this programme will have the competence to apply basic surveying skills and to register as surveying technicians.

Type: Undergraduate Diploma

Duration: Full time 3 years

Compulsory Subjects

First Year Subjects:

• Surveying


• Mathematics


• Drawing


• Communication skills


• Geography


• Civil engineering


• Survey drawing


• Computer skills


• Photogrammetry


• Physics

Second Year Subjects:

• Mapping

Third Year Subjects:

• Control Surveying


• Mathematics


• Photogrammetry


• Map projections


• Legal principles


• Statistics


• Computer applications


• Geographic information systems


• Cadastral surveying


• Adjustment of errors


• Hydrography

Careers: Surveyor.

Source: www.cput.ac.za

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