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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 and veterinary medicine or graduating from the course.
fundamental 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 as well as 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.

4
3 COMPULSORY MODULES (co-requisite 30-credit YEAR Research Project
YEAR
• Research skills
• Research project (30 credits)
• Extended
(105 credits)
OPTIONAL MODULES
• Critical Review (30 credits)
• Advanced concepts
research project)
in bio-business
• Advanced concepts
• Development and disease
in reproduction • Omics approach to biology
• Applied molecular microbiology • 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 • Parasitology of human and
locomotion (30 credits) veterinary tropical diseases
• Comparative models of disease • Practical investigative biology
• Comparative anatomy • Science of animal welfare

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