Lancaster University, BSc, Biological Sciences

This degree offers you a diverse choice of modules in genetics, biomedicine, microbiology, ecology, physiology and conservation. You will follow the same curriculum as the students studying the BSc course but will have the opportunity to focus on particular areas of interest to you in your final year. You will also carry out an extended laboratory or field-based project. You start your Biological Sciences degree studying modules such as Cell Structure and Function and Evolutionary Biology. The flexible nature of the course enables you to transfer to one of our more specialised degree programmes after your first year. In your second year, you can take modules including Medical Microbiology and Populations to Ecosystems. In your third year we offer you courses including Biology of Ageing and Global Change Biology. On this four-year MSci Hons course you will follow the same curriculum as the students studying the BSc course but will have the opportunity to focus on particular areas of interest to you in your final year. You will also carry out an extended laboratory or field-based project. Our links with external research institutions, such as hospitals and industrial laboratories, add even greater texture to your experience.