BSc Zoology

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BSc Zoology

  • Objectives You will acquire the wide range of scientific and technical skills needed to become a field or laboratory-based career zoologist. Staff specialise in topics such as animal conservation, genetics of insecticide resistance, evolutionary ecology, taxonomy and the behavioural and population ecology of aquatic invertebrates.
  • Entry requirements There are different entry qualifications for each programme. Some programmes require you to have a certain amount of knowledge in a subject before you begin the degree programme – this is called a ‘subject requirement’. Other programmes do not have any specific subject requirements. All programmes will, however, expect you to have reached a certain standard in your education and will ask you to achieve certain grades in your examinations. Most programmes have a standard offer so that you know in advance what you are likely to need. Please note that even if you have the minimum entry qualifications, you are not necessarily guaranteed a place on the degree programme.
  • Academic title BSc Zoology
  • Course description This BSc in Zoology involves the following modules.

    Year 1

    -Introductory Microbiology
    -Humans and the Changing World
    -Exploiters and Exploited
    -Mammals:Diversity, Behaviour and Conservation
    -Ecology: Species and their Interactions
    -The Living Cell
    -Genes and Chromosomes

    -Countryside and the Environment
    -Plant Diversity, Structure and Utilisation
    -Human Physiology

    Year 2

    -Evolution and Development
    -Molecular Biology of Gene Expression
    -Statistics for Life Sciences
    -Practical Skills: Field Course
    -Science Communication
    -Animal Behaviour
    -Invertebrate Zoology
    -Vertebrate Zoology

    -Applied Ecology
    -Habitat Management
    -Immunology
    -Protection
    -History and Philosophy of Science
    -As well as laboratory-based work, there are field courses to sites in the UK and elsewhere.

    Final Year

    -Research Project
    -Advanced Experimental Design and Interpretation
    -Conservation Biology
    -Behavioural Ecology & Life History Evolution
    -Animal Diversity
    -Marine Biology Field Course


    -Animal Welfare
    -Applied and Environmental Microbiology
    -Dogs and Cats
    -Mammalian Reproduction
    -Wildlife in the Farming Environment
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