THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

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Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Notes:
Students are not allowed to take more than a total of 30 credits below level 11.

An alternative appropriate course may be substituted with the permission of the Programme Director.

There are six compulsory courses for this programme:

Semester 1 [all courses in Semester 1 are compulsory]
Biodiversity Under Pressure - 20 credits
Professional Skills for Ecology and Evolution - 20 credits
Statistics and Data Analysis - 20 credits

Semester 2 [30 credits of courses in Semester 2 are compulsory, with the remaining 30 credits being chosen from optional courses]
Eco-evolutionary Responses to Anthropogenic Change - 20 credits
Research Project Proposal (Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity) - 10 credits [must be taken in Year 2]

Block 5 (Semester 2) and beyond [the dissertation course must be taken in Year 2]
Dissertation (Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity) - 60 credits

It is recommended that the following courses are taken during Year 1: Professional Skills for Ecology and Evolution, Statistics and Data Analysis.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity (Part-time) Semester 1

Select between 20 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
All Semester 1 courses are compulsory. You must complete one or two of these courses in Year 1 and the remaining one or two courses in Year 2.
AND

Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity (Part-time) Semester 2

Select between 20 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Eco-evolutionary Responses to Anthropogenic Change and Research Project Proposal (Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity) are compulsory courses. Research Project Proposal (Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity) must be taken in Year 2 in preparation for the dissertation course. Eco-evolutionary Responses to Anthropogenic Change can be taken in Year 1 or Year 2.

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Notes:
Students are not allowed to take more than a total of 30 credits below level 11.

An alternative appropriate course may be substituted with the permission of the Programme Director.

There are six compulsory courses for this programme:

Semester 1 [all courses in Semester 1 are compulsory]
Biodiversity Under Pressure - 20 credits
Professional Skills for Ecology and Evolution - 20 credits
Statistics and Data Analysis - 20 credits

Semester 2 [30 credits of courses in Semester 2 are compulsory, with the remaining 30 credits being chosen from optional courses]
Eco-evolutionary Responses to Anthropogenic Change - 20 credits
Research Project Proposal (Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity) - 10 credits [must be taken in Year 2]

Block 5 (Semester 2) and beyond [the dissertation course must be taken in Year 2]
Dissertation (Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity) - 60 credits

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 50 credits in this group.

Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity (Part-time) Semester 1

Select between 20 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
All Semester 1 courses are compulsory. You must complete one or two of these courses in Year 1 and the remaining one or two courses in Year 2.
AND

Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity (Part-time) Semester 2

Select between 20 and 30 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Eco-evolutionary Responses to Anthropogenic Change and Research Project Proposal (Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity) are compulsory courses. Research Project Proposal (Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity) must be taken in Year 2 in preparation for the dissertation course. Eco-evolutionary Responses to Anthropogenic Change can be taken in Year 1 or Year 2.

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