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MODULES
Please note that these are indicative modules and may be subject to change.
Compulsory modules:
YEAR • Biology of cells /15* • Integrated physiology I /15
1 • Inheritance, genetics and evolution /15 • Integrated physiology II /15
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• Developmental biology /15 • Problem definition and investigation
(includes first-year project) /30
The moving animal /15
Compulsory modules: Optional modules (to total 15 credits):
YEAR • The basis of disease /15 • Imaging of disease /15
2 • Ageing and degeneration /15 • Introduction to ‘One Health’ /15
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• Principles of infectious disease /15 • Introduction to Animal Behaviour,
Welfare and Ethics /15
Control of infectious disease /15
• Wild animal biology /15
• Research project /30
Compulsory modules:
YEAR • Research project /30 • Interventions /15
3 • Biodiversity Action Plan Dissertation /30 • Detection, surveillance and emerging

Optional modules: diseases /15
• Advanced concepts in reproduction /15 • Omics approach to biology /15
• Applied molecular microbiology /15 • Endocrine and metabolic syndromes /15
• Advanced skeletal pathobiology /15 • Parasitology of human and veterinary
• Animal behaviour and cognition /15 tropical diseases /15
• Comparative animal locomotion /30 • Practical investigative biology /15

*/number = no. of • Development and disease /15 • Science of animal welfare /15
credits per module
You can choose from several optional modules at King’s College London during your third year.

YOUR CAREER
Our BSc Biological Sciences (WHS) gives “I have thoroughly enjoyed this course so far.
our students groundings in both basic You are surrounded by peers who are just as
health sciences, and their application in excited and enthralled about the wild world
the field of wildlife health. Career options as you are. That gives you a great sense of
are therefore reflective of these skills. We togetherness and provides you with a group
expect graduates from this course to be of people you can always access for help or
pursuing careers in wildlife management support with the course because they are
(government agencies in both developing experiencing it with you. After I graduate, I intend
and developed countries), wildlife on doing a PhD focusing on my favourite areas
rehabilitation, wildlife related research of studying (conservation and rewilding). In the
(universities, zoological collections) or
zoo management. Some will continue to future I hope to work in the rewilding sector of
study towards a PhD. Additionally, some conservation. I want to make a difference for our
of our graduates may choose to use their world, and I think this is the perfect course to
animal health science training and apply start me on that journey.”
it to domestic animals – so many of the Mia Arundel
skills are transferable. There is also the MSci Wild Animal Biology
opportunity to apply to our Graduate
Accelerated BVetMed programme if you
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