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INSTITUTION DURATION UCAS CODE CAMPUS
(WITH PLACEMENT
YEAR)
MSci BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
The MSci in Biological Sciences is an The fourth year involves an extensive and in-depth research
undergraduate integrated master’s degree, project, together with training in advanced research methods.
the aim of which is to prepare you for a PhD or This will build on your knowledge gained from your first three
years and develop your scientific and transferable skills further,
a career in an academic or industrial research making you ‘work ready’ and able to realise your full potential
environment, where you will endeavour to make as soon as you embark on your chosen career path after
advances in human medicine or fundamental graduating from the course.
biological research.
The course will give you a clear and detailed understanding
of the physiology, cellular and molecular biology underpinning
COURSE OVERVIEW health and disease. You will gain an insight into disease
This programme allows you to discover and explore all aspects mechanisms and an appreciation of comparative and integrated
of biological sciences. Modules are structured across the first approaches to aid diagnosis and treatment. The course is
three years of the course to build a broad base of knowledge, particularly suitable for those considering a career in research,
whilst also allowing the opportunity to specialise through providing graduates with the skills and experience required for a
optional module selections and research projects in your successful career in the biosciences.
second and third year.
3 COMPULSORY MODULES (30 credits) YEAR research project
YEAR
4
• Research skills
• Research project (30 or 60 credits)
• Extended
OPTIONAL MODULES
• Critical literature review
(105 credits)
• Advanced concepts
(co-requisite 30 credit
in bio-business
research project)
• Advanced concepts
in reproduction
• Ecology: individuals,
• Applied molecular microbiology • Development and disease
• Applied wildlife health science populations and communities
• Endocrine and
• Advanced skeletal pathobiology
metabolic syndromes
• Animal behaviour and cognition
• Epidemiology: the bigger picture
• Applied animal welfare • Infection and immunity (30 credits)
• Comparative animal
locomotion (30 credits) • Omics approach to biology
• Parasitology of human and
• Comparative models of disease veterinary tropical diseases
• Comparative anatomy
• Practical investigative biology
• Science of animal welfare
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