BSc Zoology

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University of Reading, Graduate School for the Social Sciences

Comments about BSc Zoology - At the institution - Reading - Berkshire

• 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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