Welcome to the Faculty of Science at Rhodes University, a Faculty that we firmly believe to be one of the very best in the University, and in the country. These pages (updated regularly) are aimed at prospective students who wish to find out more about what is offered in the Science Faculty, and what is demanded of students who wish to study science here. They also carry information that is of more interest to current students and staff.

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Recently added information - please "reload" this page to make sure you have the latest copy

• The FINAL JuneExamination Timetable can now be seen here (26 April 2013).

• Prac, tut and lecture distributions are now available here (13 February 2013)

• Class lists reflecting 7428 active registrations (full time and part time) on 17 May @ 17h00 (limited to RU access)

• Current class sizes (limited to RU access)

• The 2013 Lecture Timetable can be seen here (19 March revision).

• The 2013 interactive Lecture Timetable Checker can be found here (19 March revision)

• The 2013 Lecture Venues can be seen here (19 March revision).

• The University Diary for 2013 can be seen here.

• Rhodes Centre for Radio Astronomy Techniques and Technologies

  Online progress report form - Masters and Doctoral STUDENTS (all faculties)

  Online progress report form - Masters and Doctoral SUPERVISORS (all faculties)

  Examiner nomination forms       (MS-Word format)     (PDF format)     (HTML format)     (Easy on-line nomination form)

• Discretionary Funding Application Form (MS-Word)

• Click here to see a list of older articles of interest

While every attempt is made to ensure that the information here is comprehensive, accurate and up to date, we cannot promise that there are no errors.

The Faculty of Science is a grouping of academic departments: specifically those teaching familiar subjects such as Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology, which are normally taken only in Science degrees, as well as some departments teaching subjects that can form part of Science or Humanities or Commerce degrees, such as Mathematics and Geography. The affairs of the Faculty are decided by the "Faculty Board", which is chaired by the Dean of the Faculty, Professor Ric Bernard (Telephone +27-46-603-7232/7233)

Our Faculty is committed towards providing our students with the academic skills they will need to become the scientists of the future - to be able to contribute throughout long and illustrious careers towards making scientific discoveries as yet undreamed of, using equipment and technologies not yet invented, and improving the world for the benefit of people not yet born.

Some other recent articles that may be of interest

• Class lists reflecting 7292 active registrations (full time and part time) on 02 December 2011 (limited to RU access)

• Class sizes in December 2011 (limited to RU access)

• The Techie Guys Picnic (20th Anniversary of the first TCP/IP connection to the Internet) - score (PDF) and   video (40MB avi file)

• The programme, discussion documents, and summary of proceedings of the 2011 Imbizo can be found here

• Extended Studies Programme Curriculum Review (2011) (PDF)

• Extended Studies Programme Curriculum Review - Appendices (2011) (PDF)

• Consensus study on the state of Humanities (ASSAf)

• Charter for Humanities and Social Sciences - final report (30 June 2011)

• New 1 Year MSc Programme in Bioinformatics & Computational Molecular Biology (PDF)

• Celebrating Science At Rhodes - PhD Graduates, citations, pictures 2011 (PDF)

• Celebrating Science At Rhodes - PhD Graduates, citations, pictures 2010 (PDF)

• Celebrating Science At Rhodes - PhD Graduates, citations, pictures 2009 (PDF)

• Celebrating Science At Rhodes - PhD Graduates, citations, pictures 2011 (PDF)

• Comparative class sizes over the last four years (PDF) ( also available in Excel format )

• Elephants, Compassion, and the Largesse of Literature - Inaugural lecture by Professor Dan Wylie (PDF)

• The PhD Study (Academy of Science report) (Limited to RU access)

  (Local copy of the report at http://www.assaf.org.za/2010/10/2813/.)

• The 4-Stage Response to Low Student Achievement (Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 March 2011)

  You can see a local copy here