Course Options and Advice

Information on what programmes and courses you can choose and when you choose them.

Degree Programme Structure

You will take 120 credits in each year of your programme. In the first three years, this is usually 60 credits of courses in each of the two semesters.

At the end of Year 2 you will choose one of the 12 specialised honours degree programmes in the School of Biological Sciences. These are:

  • Biochemistry
  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Molecular Genetic
  • Cell Biology
  • Genetics
  • Plant Sciences
  • Development, Regeneration
  • and Stem Cells
  • Immunology
  • Zoology

In each year of your degree, there will be compulsory courses and elective (optional) course choices. In Years 1 and 2, all Biological Sciences students take the same compulsory courses. There are also recommended courses for some honours programmes in Year 2. 

Further information about each programme can be found in the Senior Honours Programme pages. You can also use the Path programme builder below to find out which courses are required for each programme.

Interactive Degree Programme Builder - Path

The Path programme builder allows you to dynamically look at courses from an interactive degree programme and see how those choices affect available courses in later years. 

It validates all your choices in real time against your degree programme rules and the course requirement rules so you can focus on the actual choices you are making. 

The programme builder knows what you've taken in previous years, what you can take now, and you can tell it what courses you want to take in later years and it can help you get there.

Please note: using Path does not enrol you on courses or confirm your timetable, it is a simulation tool only.

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