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 levels 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:
A guide giving details, as well as restrictions and recommendations on choices of courses, will be available for students to facilitate advance planning.
In addition to the core courses, students must take an additional 20 credits from Biological Sciences specified courses.
Compulsory courses
You must take these courses
Course options
Group A
Select exactly 80 credits in this group.
Biological Sciences recommended courses - Level 8
Select between 0 and 40 credits
of the following courses
Notes:
Evolution in Action 2 is recommended for Population Genetics
AND
Biological Sciences (Genetics) alternative courses - level 8
Select between 0 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.
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 courses, will be available for students to facilitate advance planning.
Occasionally electives might not run in a particular year. Please note that the elective GENE10004 Genetics of Host-Parasite Interactions will not run in 2020/21.