2017/18 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
MBiol, BSc Pharmacology (Integrated Masters)
Programme code: | MBBS-PHAR | UCAS code: | B219 |
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Duration: | 4 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Dan Donnelly | Contact address: | d.donnelly@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 480
Entry requirements:
A Level or Advanced Higher: AAA from 3 A2/Advanced Higher including Biology or Human Biology or Chemistry, plus another science or science related subject. Critical Thinking and General Studies excluded. International Baccalaureate: 35 (with 18 at HL) including 6 in HL Biology or Chemistry, and another science at higher level.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
Faculty of Biological Sciences Undergraduate School
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
Faculty of Biological Sciences Undergraduate School
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
The three year BSc programmes upon which the Integrated Masters are built meet the QAA Benchmarks and meet the QAA expectations for integrated masters programmes.
There are no specified QAA Benchmarks for Integrated Masters degrees in Bioscience, however the principle of such programmes in other subject areas is to ensure coverage of Honours level Benchmark requirements plus ensure that the higher Masters levels objectives are met including:
Research training
Project-specific experimental skills
Accessing literature
Planning, including evaluation of hazards and environmental effects
Making oral presentations, writing reports, including critical evaluation
Participating in colloquia
Research project
Implementation of planned experiments
Recording of data and their critical analysis
Dissertation
Outcome potentially publishable
Advanced studies
In area of specialism to support research topic
Complementary studies outside, but cognate to, area of specialism
Problem solving
Development of general strategies including the identification of additional information required and problems where there is not a unique solution
Application of advances studies to the solutions of problems
Professional studies
Ethics and societal responsibilities
Environmental impact
Sustainability
It is important to note that for students who may elect not to complete the fourth year of the programme, or who are advised that their performance makes it unlikely that they would be successful in completing the programme will have met the QAA benchmarks for the BSc and so they will be able to graduate after 3 years.
Programme specification:
Distinctiveness on of the Pharmacology programme from the other programmes in the Biomedical Sciences area is brought about by the combination of the unique modules to this programme and the subject specific pharmacology focus studied in several of the other modules. There are 20 credits at level 2 (BMSC2226 Experimental Skills in Pharmacology and BMSC2230 Topics in Pharmacology), and 40 credits at level 3 (BMSC3143 Advanced Topics in Pharmacology I and BMSC3233 Advanced Topics in Pharmacology II) that are unique to the Pharmacology programme. In addition students doing Pharmacology will undertake a research project with a Pharmacology focus (BMSC3399 Research Project preparation – 20 credits and BMSC5382M Extended Research Project – 90 credits) and focus on Pharmacology Advanced Research Topics – 30 credits.
The MBiol, BSc Pharmacology programme is distinctive because it develops an excellent breadth and depth of knowledge in the programme area together with an exceptional experience of advanced research delivered through an integrated research project.
The most important values which inform the MBiol, BSc Pharmacology programme are to provide excellent students with the opportunity to gain substantial research training and experience through engagement with an individual research project conducted as part of a research team in an internationally recognised research laboratory.
The academic content of the MBiol, BSc Pharmacology programme concentrates on developing an understanding of research through the delivery and active engagement in taught components, practical skills development, data analysis and problem solving elements culminating in a major research project supported by further research and transferable skills training and career planning opportunities.
The most important intellectual skills developed in the MBiol, BSc Pharmacology programme are appreciation of the fundamental underpinning principles of how we collect, analyse and report data to generate new knowledge in the subject area leading through to the current state of the field informed by the research-based ethos of teaching and investigation.
The most useful practical skills, techniques and capabilities developed will be those underpinning the Pharmacology programme area, together with advanced level research skills expected of early stage PhD students.
Competency will be developed in a broad range of topics associated with Pharmacology, combined with competency in research methodology, the development of hypothesis driven research, the approach to the analysis of data and ability to solve problems, appropriate practical skills in the design and execution of suitable experiments, the production of publication quality outputs and the ability to communicate effectively.
The most important ways in which a student will learn are dependent upon the level of the students as they progress through the course. Initially delivery will be more research-informed teaching in lecture and seminar/tutorial and practical class settings leading to more independent research-based learning through lectures and independent study, small class teaching and project team or individual mentoring. Students will progress from the development of research-based practical skills in teaching labs to the design and execution of independent research work.
On completing the MBiol, BSc Pharmacology programme we want students to know and understand their programme specialist subject from basic principles through to cutting edge research, and to appreciate the process of research and to be able to demonstrate implementation of these principles.
On completing the MBiol, BSc Pharmacology programme we want students to be able to compete worldwide with other students for high quality research opportunities within appropriate industries or for PhD positions to pursue research careers.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Candidates will be required to study 120 credits
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
BMSC1103 | Basic Laboratory and Scientific Skills | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
BMSC1110 | Foundations of Biomedical Sciences | 40 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
BMSC1210 | Biology of the Mind | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
BMSC1212 | Introduction to Pharmacology | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
BMSC1213 | Basic Laboratory and Scientific Skills 2 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
BMSC1214 | Human Endocrinology | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates may study 10 credits from the following optional modules:
BIOL1223 | Career and Professional Development for Life Scientists | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
BIOL1225 | How can Biological Sciences change the world | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
BMSC1215 | Life in the Extreme: Ultra Human Physiology | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MICR1201 | Introduction to Microbiology | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study 10 credits of discovery modules.
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Candidates will be required to study 120 credits
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
BMSC2117 | Cardio-respiratory Physiology and Pharmacology | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
BMSC2119 | Experimental Skills | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
BMSC2120 | Scientific Skills | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
BMSC2223 | Neuropharmacology | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
BMSC2224 | Principles of Drug Discovery | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
BMSC2226 | Experimental Skills in Pharmacology | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
BMSC2230 | Topics in Pharmacology | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Students must take either BMSC2118 or BMSC2121 and BMSC2123.
BMSC2118 | Neurobiology | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
BMSC2121 | Cognitive Neuroscience: The process underlying cognition | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
BMSC2123 | Sensory and Motor Neuroscience | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Students will normally be required to take a minimum of 10 credits from the following modules
BMSC2210 | Chemotherapy | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
BMSC2214 | Introduction to Toxicology | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
BMSC2225 | Physiology of Absorption and Excretion | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
BMSC2235 | Molecular Neuroscience | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
If 10 credits are still required, students may take a Discovery module OR one of the following modules
BIOL2223 | Employment, Career planning and Professional Development for Life Scientists | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
FOBS2240 | Skills in Communicating Research beyond the University | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study up to 10 credits of discovery modules as agreed by the Programme Leader.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Candidates will be required to study 120 credits
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
BMSC3140 | Advanced Scientific Skills | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
BMSC3233 | Advanced Topics in Pharmacology II | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
BMSC3398 | Practical Research Skills | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
BMSC3399 | Extended Research Project Preparation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from one of the following optional modules:
BMSC3126 | Integrative Biomedical Sciences | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
BMSC3143 | Advanced Topics in Pharmacology I | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits following modules:
BMSC3101 | Inherited Disorders | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
BMSC3138 | Cellular Cardiology | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
BMSC3139 | Systems Neurophysiology | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
BMSC3149 | Drug Development: Pre-Clinical to Practice | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Year4 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
BMSC5301M | Advanced Research Topics | 30 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
BMSC5382M | Extended Research Project | 90 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Last updated: 15/06/2017
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