MBio Animal Behaviour and Welfare
Course Overview
This MBio in Animal Behaviour and Welfare is a research-intensive degree that provides a multidisciplinary understanding of how and why animals behave, preparing students to address real-world challenges in captive and wild environments. The program is distinguished by an additional final year dedicated to advanced research, enhancing employability and providing a pathway to further study. Students learn from world-leading academics at the forefront of welfare assessment, animal cognition, and evolutionary biology.
Key Program Highlights
- Research-intensive final year (MBio) providing advanced training and improved career prospects
- Tuition from internationally renowned experts in animal cognition, clinical behaviour, and welfare assessment
- Hands-on field experience through a fully-funded UK residential field trip to study animals in natural habitats
- Multidisciplinary approach covering a wide range of species, from insects and reptiles to birds and mammals
- Optional third-year overseas field course for international study opportunities
Course Overview
This MBio in Animal Behaviour and Welfare is a research-intensive degree that provides a multidisciplinary understanding of how and why animals behave, preparing students to address real-world challenges in captive and wild environments. The program is distinguished by an additional final year dedicated to advanced research, enhancing employability and providing a pathway to further study. Students learn from world-leading academics at the forefront of welfare assessment, animal cognition, and evolutionary biology.
Key Program Highlights
- Research-intensive final year (MBio) providing advanced training and improved career prospects
- Tuition from internationally renowned experts in animal cognition, clinical behaviour, and welfare assessment
- Hands-on field experience through a fully-funded UK residential field trip to study animals in natural habitats
- Multidisciplinary approach covering a wide range of species, from insects and reptiles to birds and mammals
- Optional third-year overseas field course for international study opportunities
Requirements
Modules
- Animal Management
- Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Animals
- Ecology
- Introduction to Animal Behaviour and Welfare
- Introduction to Life Sciences
- Research Methods for the Life Sciences
- Animal Behaviour
- Animal Health and Disease
- Animal Protection
- Conservation Biology
- Data Skills for the Life Sciences
- Evolution
- Immunology
- Invertebrate and Vertebrate Zoology
- Managing Ecosystems
- Reproduction and Development
- SLS Study Abroad
- UK Field Course
- Animal Cognition and Welfare
- Applied Animal Behaviour
- Life Sciences Research Project
- Behavioural Ecology
- Control of Animal Disease
- Overseas Field Course
- Plant and Animal Interactions
- Practical Skills in Conservation
- Veterinary Parasitology
- Professional and Research Skills in the Life and Environmental Sciences
- MBio Research project
- MBio Research techniques
