BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences (with Foundation Year option)

Course details

Effective conservation requires professionals that can integrate and understand ecology along with knowledge of the legislative frameworks in general and conservation biology.

This course integrates a variety of teaching methods including lectures, laboratory based practicals, field exercises, group activities and research project meetings for both theoretical and reflective based learning. You'll also be involved in a field research skills week of practical exercises and group based research within the local environment.

You will be taught by a range of staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This will include senior academic staff, qualified professional practitioners, demonstrators, technicians and research students. You will also benefit from regular guest lectures from industry.

How you will be assessed

You will be assessed by coursework culminating in your final year research project, and you will also undertake group work and written exams. The assessment methods for each unit can be found in the programme specification for your course.

Download the programme specification (pdf 906kb)Download the Foundation Year programme specification (pdf 338kb)

If English is not your first language, you will have to provide evidence that you have been assessed in all four components of English (reading, writing, speaking and listening) to the required standard for your degree course. As a general rule, to be accepted onto any Bachelor’s or Master’s programme, you will need to have achieved a minimum of IELTS (Academic) 6.0 overall, with no less than 5.5 in each component. Our English Language Comparison Scores page provides comparison tables. 

To be accepted on to a research degree programme, you will need to have achieved an IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 overall (with a minimum of 5.5 in each of the four component scores) or equivalent. It should be noted that the language requirement may be higher for some research degree programmes, in particular those which require a high level of communication skills.

Careers

Our graduates work for a range of organisations, including the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, NHS, Sigma Aldrich and the Pacific Islands Conservation Initiative.

90% of our graduates are either working or studying 15 months after graduating .