UNISA College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences, Qualifications

UNISA College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences, Qualifications to Join And Contacts;- The college is situated strategically at the Unisa Science Campus in Johannesburg. Unisa has made science a priority and aims to grow research capacity and support research activities in the fields of agriculture and environmental sciences through the activities of the College.

With its leading edge laboratories facilities not generally associated with open and distance e-learning institutions our students will have a place to grow their minds and do what every scientist lives to do – put theory into practice.

Through the Science campus the College strives to be the number one world-class science centre of excellence in teaching, research, innovation and community engagement for sustainable development.

UNISA College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences, Qualifications

The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences consists of two schools (with two departments each) a centre and a unit.

School Of Agriculture and Life Sciences

The School of Agriculture and Life Sciences is constituted out of two composite departments namely the Department of Agriculture and Animal Health and the Department of Life and Consumer Sciences.

The primary goal in the school is to provide solutions to African based challenges through engaged scholarship that spawns from the interaction between a trilogy of Teaching and Learning, Research and Innovation and Community Engagement in areas of agriculture, animal health, life and consumer sciences.

  • Department of Agriculture and Animal Health
  • Department of Life and Consumer Sciences

School of Ecological and Human Sustainability

The primary focus of the School is to use its scholarship to achieve higher levels of environmental responsibility and awareness for a sustainable future.  In order to achieve this, the School addresses social, economic and environmental sustainability challenges by integrating the human, ecological and environmental resources to create sustainable livelihoods and sustainable environments.

  • Department of Geography
  • Department of Environmental Sciences
  • Centre for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
  • Applied Behavioural Ecology & Ecosystem Research Unit (ABEERU)

General enquiries

Mrs Dianne Metzer
Information Co-ordinator
Tel: 011 670 9351

Mrs Kelly Steyn
Administrative Officer: Student Enquiries
Tel: 011 471 3647

Ms Queeneth Molefe
Academic Support Coordinator: Tutoring
Tel: 011 471 2510

Ms Penny Ngcobo
Postgraduate Studies
Tel: 011 670 9469

E-mail: CAESenquiries@unisa.ac.za
For general Unisa enquiries, please visit www.unisa.ac.za/contact

All staff are situated at the Unisa Science Campus in Johannesburg