BSc (Hons) Ecology and Conservation
Course Overview
This course provides a comprehensive exploration of modern biology, from molecular genetics and animal behavior to biodiversity and environmental conservation. You will develop advanced practical skills through hands-on laboratory work and field projects in diverse global locations, all while learning to contextualize science within its socio-economic and political frameworks.
Key Program Highlights
- Hands-on laboratory experience in genetics, microbiology, and ecology
- Exciting international field trips to destinations like Kenya, Peru, and eSwatini
- Development of professional field skills and survey techniques
- Opportunity to conduct unique, independent research with world-leading academics
- Examination of biological science within real-world socio-economic contexts
Course Overview
This course provides a comprehensive exploration of modern biology, from molecular genetics and animal behavior to biodiversity and environmental conservation. You will develop advanced practical skills through hands-on laboratory work and field projects in diverse global locations, all while learning to contextualize science within its socio-economic and political frameworks.
Key Program Highlights
- Hands-on laboratory experience in genetics, microbiology, and ecology
- Exciting international field trips to destinations like Kenya, Peru, and eSwatini
- Development of professional field skills and survey techniques
- Opportunity to conduct unique, independent research with world-leading academics
- Examination of biological science within real-world socio-economic contexts
Requirements
Modules
- Evolution, Behaviour and Ecology
- Issues and Approaches in Ecology
- Professional Skills for Biosciences
- Diversity of Life
- Sustainability Challenges and Solutions
- Living Planet
- Community, Ecosystem and Macro-Ecology
- Population Ecology and Management
- Field Ecology
- Environmental Microbiology
- Climate Change: Science and Policy
- Further Professional Skills for Biosciences
- Plant Biology
- Parasite and Pathogen Ecology
- Conservation, Ecology and Biodiversity in the Tropics
- Behavioural Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- GIS Skills for Project Work
- Ecology Research Project
- Biology of Ageing: Evolution, Ecology and Human Health
- Science Communication
- Biological Oceanography and Marine Ecology
- Biodiversity Conservation and Human Society
- Just Transformations to Sustainability
- Social Evolution
- Evolutionary Biology and Conservation Genetics
- Environmental Economics
- Data Science for Biologists
- The English Landscape 1066 to 1600
- Conservation, Restoration and Environmental Justice
- Biology in Society
- The Origins of the English Landscape 4000BC to 1066AD
- Environmental Politics and Policy Making
