MBiol, BSc Zoology (Integrated Masters)(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Science)

Learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate a sophisticated and integrated understanding of subject knowledge from across a range of biological sciences subjects, including zoology
2. Appraise recent developments and hypotheses within the zoology discipline, making use of scholarly reviews and primary sources, identifying uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge.
3. Apply advanced analytical and data handling skills to critically evaluate information and scientific results and devise solutions to unfamiliar problems in zoology
4. Undertake a detailed research project, designing appropriate research strategies to test complex scientific questions in an area relevant to zoology
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
Students will have had the opportunity to, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
1. Effectively explain, critique and propose ways in which biology and zoological researchers can contribute to developing sustainable solutions to current and future world challenges
2. Effectively communicate and critique zoological 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

We use a variety of assessment methods to help you develop and assess the specific learning and skills outcomes. At level 3 these may include assessed practical work, involving safety competencies, advanced practical skills, complex data handling and statistics, together with problem-solving exercises, multiple-choice tests, group work, essays, project work and oral presentations. There will be opportunities to complete practice questions and receive feedback to support learning.