2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

MBiol, BSc Biological Sciences (Biotechnology with Enterprise) (Integrated Masters)

Total credits: 480

Entry requirements:

Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

In addition to meeting the core knowledge, understanding, experience and skills articulated in the QAA ‘Biosciences’ and ‘Business and Management’ benchmarks, for graduating with an honours degree in Biotechnology with Enterprise (a level 6 qualification), MBiol graduates should be able to meet the additional requirements for Level 7. These are incorporated into the learning and skills outcomes for the final year of the programme.

Professional Body Offering Accreditation:

Royal Society of Biology Advanced Degree Accreditation

Programme specification:

Biotechnology and Enterprise is an interdisciplinary program that provides the novel opportunity for you to gain a grounding in a broad range of biological sciences areas, which underpin the growing biotechnology industry, combined with an understanding of the knowledge and skills required to bring a new idea to the marketplace.

In your first year you will learn about the fundamental processes and molecular mechanisms that underpin biological processes in all living organisms and business concepts critical for the biotechnology sector. Through further compulsory modules you will gain essential foundational knowledge in modern microbiology and genetics, alongside the study of entrepreneurship and business planning. The practical skills modules will build your practical, numeracy and problem-solving skills, and develop your understanding of the biotechnology lecture material. By choosing from a range of optional modules will have the opportunity to add flexibility to these foundational areas of biological sciences and to further develop your business awareness.

At the end of year 1, our flexible degree structure offers you the opportunity to transfer to relevant degree courses in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, subject to space and academic background approval.

In your second year you will build upon the knowledge and experience you gained in your first year by diving deeper into topics important to both biotechnology and enterprise. For instance, you will learn how omics-based approaches and ‘big data’ is being used to overcome global challenges in biomedicine, learn the underpinning science of sustainable food production and the fundamentals of business planning and entrepreneurship. Through more extended projects, the second-year biotechnology skills modules provide the opportunity to utilise multiple experimental approaches and take greater responsibility for your work. By choosing from a range of optional modules will have the opportunity to add flexibility to these foundational areas of biotechnology and to further develop your business awareness.

In your third year you will carry out your enterprise project. This will involve working as part of a team with a company outside the university, to deliver a project relevant to their needs. In order to further develop your biotechnology knowledge, you will have the opportunity to choose optional advanced modules in areas such as microbiology or cancer biology. In addition, you will begin to work with your research project supervisor to explore their research area and define a project in year four. This is supplemented with training in advanced research skills (both inside and outside of the laboratory environment), as you work as part of an interdisciplinary group to answer a research question.

In the final, masters, year of the programme you will commence your extended research project and become integrated into the group of your research supervisor. This will allow you to apply the knowledge and skills acquired during your degree, develop your research skills in greater depth and produce a report containing material of publishable quality that could contribute to a research publication. To further enhance your subject-matter knowledge and skills, you will be required to enrol on 30 credits of specialist Masters-level modules with options ranging from Advanced Biomolecular Technologies through to Medical Diagnostics.

Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 10 credits from the following optional modules in Semester 1:

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules in Semester 2:

Alternatively, candidates can select one optional module above, and enrol on a 10 credit discovery module

Discovery modules:

Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates are required to take a minimum of 10 credits and up to 20 credits of modules from the following Subsets A & B .

Subset A: Candidates are required to study 10 credits of modules.

Subset B: Candidates are required to take 10 credits of modules from subset B below or may choose a Discovery module.

Discovery modules:

Students may take a Discovery module in place of a module from Subset B.

Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules.

Year4 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Where students select a total of 125 credits, the year average will be calculated over 125 credits.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to select a 30 credits of optional modules:

Last updated: 20/06/2024 09:25:30

Disclaimer

Browse Other Catalogues

• Undergraduate module catalogue
• Taught Postgraduate module catalogue
• Undergraduate programme catalogue
• Taught Postgraduate programme catalogue

Errors, omissions, failed links etc should be notified to the Catalogue Team.PROD