Students who wish to register in the Faculty of Science
and Agriculture but who are unable to gain places for mainstream
courses on competitive grounds, may obtain access if they
are invited to enter the Science Foundation Programme. Students
who are invited will be selected on the basis of their SATAP
and matric results.
This is a programme in which the first year science course
of 16 modules is integrated with the equivalent of 16 academic
support modules. The implication is that first year is extended
by a year and is completed in two years instead of one year.
The intention is that Foundation students should take a
maximum of one extra year to complete a first degree.
Aim
The purpose of the Science Foundation Programme is to enable
under-prepared learners to graduate in science by providing
them with academic support for the first year curriculum.
Foundation support modules are linked to mainstream first
year modules so that the first year course is extended by
one year and is completed in two years. It is intended that
Foundation students should complete a three-year first degree
in a maximum of four years and a four-year first degree
in a maximum of five years.
(1) Students who enter the Science Foundation Programme
are committed for the full two-year duration of the programme.
Students will not be able to substitute foundation modules
with mainstream modules during this period.
(2) In order to remain in the Faculty of Science and Agriculture
and be promoted from year one to year two of the Science
Foundation Programme, students will be required to pass
7 out of 9 mainstream modules and 2 out of 3 literacy modules
offered in Foundation year one.
(3) In order to remain in the Faculty of Science and Agriculture
and be promoted from year two of the Science Foundation
Programme into mainstream second year, students will be
required to pass 5 out of 7 mainstream modules and 3 out
of 4 literacy modules offered in Foundation year two.
(4) Students who fail all four (4) modules in any one term
will be required to leave the Foundation Programme.
(5) No student who has left the Foundation Programme will
be re-admitted to it.
(6) No student shall be permitted to repeat a Foundation
module.
Science Foundation Courses
Foundation students will be registered for a foundation
outcome code as indicated below under each Department, while
they are in the Foundation Programme. This will change to
a conventional outcome code once they graduate from the
programme. The mainstream and foundation module codes for
the different outcomes are reflected in the grids below.
Module Description
Click
here and refer to the main course codes in relevant
department for module descriptions (Page 267).
Staff
Acting Co-ordinator
N Morojele-Mathibeli,
BSc (NUL), MSc Ed C Southampton Univ
Lecturers
KM Swanepoel, BSc(Hons),(PUforCHE), HDE, FDE, (RAU)
TE Lakaje, BSc (Hons), MSc (UZ)
T Pillay, BA (UDW), HDE (UDW), MPhil(Stellenbosch)
A Krishnannair, BSc(Hons),(PUforCHE), HDE, FDE, (RAU
S Naras, BSc (Hons) (UKZN)
S Ntenteni, BSc (Wits), BSc (Hons) UJ
S Khanyile, BSc (Hons) UZ
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