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MBiol, BSc Biology with Enterprise (Integrated Masters)

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Science)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge and professional competencies some of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship in Biology with Enterprise;
- deploy accurately standard techniques of analysis and enquiry within Biology with Enterprise;
- demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument;
- describe and comment on particular aspects of recent research and/or scholarship;
- appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in Biology with Enterprise;
- make appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources;
- apply their knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out an extended piece of work or project
- conform to professional boundaries and norms where applicable.
- critically appreciate forms of entrepreneurship and enterprising activity in relation to economic and societal
outcomes on local and global levels
- critically examine relevant enterprise development processes in relation to appropriate personal, industry and
subject-specific issues

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- skills in analysis, interpretation and presentation of quantitative and qualitative data
- skills in information handling, including finding information from appropriate sources, selecting relevant information and using information to solve complex problems
- skills in communicating information in various formats to a range of audiences
- skills such as organisational and self management skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility
- teamwork skills
- commercial awareness
- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
- the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations;
- the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;
- the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature;

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of Biology with Enterprise;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- demonstrating a broad knowledge base;

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