BSc Biological Sciences
Course Overview
This highly flexible Biological Sciences degree empowers you to tailor your studies to your evolving passions, offering maximum choice across a wide range of exciting topics. You will develop a powerful blend of broad biological knowledge and sophisticated analytical skills, creating a highly valuable asset for both scientific research and diverse professional careers. The course is designed to provide a comprehensive foundation while allowing you to specialize in the cellular and molecular mechanisms that you find most compelling.
Key Program Highlights
- Maximum flexibility to customize your degree in Years 2 and 3, focusing on broad principles or a specific passion
- Develops highly sought-after transferable skills in critical analysis and problem-solving
- Opportunities for hands-on learning, including field trips to see biological mechanisms in action
- Identical curriculum to the first three years of the four-year MBiolSci program
- Part of a suite of 23 different courses, allowing for potential switching between specialisms early in the first year
Course Overview
This highly flexible Biological Sciences degree empowers you to tailor your studies to your evolving passions, offering maximum choice across a wide range of exciting topics. You will develop a powerful blend of broad biological knowledge and sophisticated analytical skills, creating a highly valuable asset for both scientific research and diverse professional careers. The course is designed to provide a comprehensive foundation while allowing you to specialize in the cellular and molecular mechanisms that you find most compelling.
Key Program Highlights
- Maximum flexibility to customize your degree in Years 2 and 3, focusing on broad principles or a specific passion
- Develops highly sought-after transferable skills in critical analysis and problem-solving
- Opportunities for hands-on learning, including field trips to see biological mechanisms in action
- Identical curriculum to the first three years of the four-year MBiolSci program
- Part of a suite of 23 different courses, allowing for potential switching between specialisms early in the first year
Requirements
Modules
- The Molecules of Life: An Introduction to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (double module)
- The Cell: An Introduction to Cell Biology and Microbiology (double module)
- From Individuals to Populations: An Introduction to Genetics
- Multicellular Organisation: An Introduction to Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience (double module)
- Biodiversity and Behaviour
- Research Skills 1
- Research Skills 2
- Genomes
- Physiology and Pharmacology
- Physiology of Excitable Cells
- Principles of Microbiology
- Protein Structure and Function
- Global Change Biology and Conservation
- Introduction to Python programming for Bioscientists
- Medical Microbiology
- Contemporary Techniques in Biological Data Analysis
- Exercise Physiology and Pharmacology
- Genes, Development and Inheritance
- Immunology and Eukaryotic Microbiology
- Immunology and Eukaryotic Microbiology (with science enterprise trip)
- Bioinformatics
- Behavioural Neurobiology
- Neurobiology and Animal Behaviour
- A Field Guide to Evolution
- From Genes to Proteins
- Molecular Cell Biology
- Evolutionary Genetics
- Gene Expression: Molecular Basis and Medical Relevance
- Molecular and Cellular Immunology
- Human Genetics
- Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
- Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
- Comparative Neurobiology
- Microbial Biotechnology
- Structural Biology
- Subtropical Physiology and Ecology
- Biodiversity in Practice
- Sustainability Enterprise Partnership Project
- Experimental Research Project A plus Experimental Research Project B (double module)
- Education Research Project A plus Experimental Research Project B (double module)
- Analytical Research Project (double module) plus one additional option module from the list above
- Cancer Cell and Molecular Biology
- Microbial Pathogenesis and Genomics
- Human and Environmental Microbiology
- Neuroscience Futures
- Physiology, Pharmacology and Behaviour
- Cellular Physiology of the Cardiovascular System
- Conservation and Ecological Genetics
- Behavioural Ecology
- Sustainability Enterprise Partnership Project
- Introduction to Astrobiology and the Origins of Life
