BSc Biochemistry(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Science)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the Level 3 of the programme you should have provided evidence of being able to:
1. Demonstrate a sophisticated and integrated understanding of a range of cutting edge biochemistry and molecular
biology topics.
2. Describe and appraise up-to-date developments and hypotheses in biochemistry, making use of scholarly reviews and primary sources identifying uncertainly, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge.
3. Apply advanced analytical and data handling skills to critically evaluate information and experimental results and
devise solutions to unfamiliar problems in biochemistry.
4. Undertake an extended investigative project, designing appropriate research strategies to test complex scientific
questions in an area relevant to biochemistry.
5. Identify and implement health and safety, ethical regulations and environmental considerations through the
completion of an extended final year project and other relevant contexts.

Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Effectively explain, critique and propose ways in which biochemistry/biochemists can contribute to developing
sustainable solutions to current and future world challenges.
2. Effectively communicate and critique biochemistry information, ideas, problems and solutions in various formats
and to a range of audiences.
3. Demonstrate skills necessary for exercising personal responsibility, self-management, organisation and decision
making in complex and unpredictable situations.
4. Demonstrate effective teamworking skills in a range of situations including inter-disciplinary contexts.

Assessment

In the third year we will use a range of authentic, extended assessments involving material taught to research level.
These assessments will prepare the students for the next stage of their careers in scientific research or elsewhere
using both individual and group-based activities.