Year 1
Academic year: 2020/21,
Starting in: September
Notes:
Before finalising your courses, please ensure you have met your Personal Tutor. A guide giving details, as well as restrictions and recommendations on choices and courses, will be available for students entering the degree programme.
Due to the current health crisis and exclusion from our laboratory facilities, some of the preparation for the delivery of new courses has been halted. Existing year 1 courses will be adapted to include as many of the elements of our new curriculum as possible given the circumstances.
Compulsory courses
You must take these courses
Course options
Group A
Select exactly 80 credits in this group.
Biological Sciences Year 1 recommended courses
Select between 0 and 40 credits
of the following courses
AND
Biological Chemistry Courses - Level 8
Select between 0 and 40 credits
of the following courses
Notes:
Exceptionally, with the permission of the Personal Tutor, the courses; Biological Chemistry 1A and Biological Chemistry 1B may be replaced with any other courses at level 7 and 8, chosen in schedules A to Q, T and W
AND
Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Year 2
Academic year: 2020/21,
Starting in: August
Notes:
In addition to the compulsory courses, students must ensure that they take an additional Biological Sciences course (20 credits) and a further total of 20 credits of Biological Sciences specified courses. A Programme Guide giving details, as well as restrictions and recommendations on choices of courses, will be available for students to facilitate advance planning.
Compulsory courses
You must take these courses
Course options
Group A
Select exactly 100 credits in this group.
Biological Sciences Level 8 courses
Select between 20 and 100 credits
of the following courses
AND
Biological Sciences (Ecology) courses - Level 8
Select between 20 and 80 credits
of the following courses
AND
Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Year 3
Academic year: 2020/21,
Starting in: August
Notes:
A guide giving details, as well as restrictions and recommendations on choices of courses, will be available for students to facilitate advance planning. Students should ensure that they choose 60 credits from each semester.
Occasionally a course will be suspended or cancelled. For 2020/21, an optional course, Parasite Biology 3, has been suspended.
Compulsory courses
You must take these courses
Course options
Group A
Select exactly 60 credits in this group.
Biological Sciences (Ecology) - Level 9
Select between 0 and 60 credits
of the following courses
AND
Biological Sciences Year 3 Specific Courses
Select between 0 and 60 credits
of the following courses
Exceptionally, a level 10 business or other College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science course may be taken.
Year 4
Academic year: 2020/21,
Starting in: August
Notes:
A guide giving details, as well as restrictions and recommendations on choices of course, will be available for students entering the degree programme to facilitate advance planning.
Occasionally electives might not run in a particular year.
Please note that ECLG10007 Biological Sciences (Ecology) Field Course begins prior to Semester 1 starting.
Compulsory courses
You must take these courses
Course options
Group A
Select exactly 40 credits in this group.
Biological Sciences (Ecology) recommended list
Select between 0 and 40 credits
of the following courses
Notes:
These courses have been selected as being recommended for the Biological Sciences (Ecology) programme. Students must take at least two courses based in Biological Sciences.
AND
Level 10 courses in the School of Biological Sciences