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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.
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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.
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Academic title
BSc Zoology
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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
