Biological Sciences with German for Science

Modules shown are for the current academic year, and are subject to change depending on your year of entry.

You will follow a similar programme of studies as all biological sciences students for the first and second years, with the addition of German for Science modules.

The third year is spent completing modules and research at a leading European partner institution.

Your fourth and final year is a combination of either a laboratory-based research project or literature-based dissertation, a technical translation and three specialist biological sciences modules.

You will take the following core modules:

• Biological Chemistry and Microbiology
• Biology of Organisms
• Cell Biology and Genetics
• Ecology and Evolution
• German History and Politics
• German Language for Science (Level 4)

In your second year, you will study a combination of core and optional modules.

• Applied Molecular Biology
• Genetics
• Tutored Dissertation
• German Language for Science (Level 5)
• German Science and Technology

You will choose one module from each specialist area below.

• Bacterial Physiology
• Cell and Developmental Biology
• Resource Management

• Behavioural Ecology
• Virology

• Ecology
• Immunology
• Parasitology

The third year is spent studying at a leading university in Europe.

The fourth year combines core modules, a research project/dissertation and three optional modules.

• German Scientific and Technical Translation with the use of Translation Technology
• Science Communication

• Laboratory-based research project or literature-based dissertation

You will select one module from each of the below groups.

• Damage and Repair in Biological Systems
• Macromolecules in Three Dimensions
• Medical Microbiology
• Neuroscience Research
• Plant Biotechnology and Development
• Population and Community Ecology
• Stem Cells, Regeneration and Ageing
• African Biology Field Course

• Advanced Topics in Immunity and Infection
• Advanced Topics in Parasitology and Vector Biology
• Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
• Cancer
• Evolutionary Biology
• Integrative Systems Biology
• Mechanisms of Gene Expression
• Metabolic and Network Engineering
• Symbiosis, Plant Immunity and Disease

• Biodiversity Genomics
• Bioinformatics
• Biotechnology Applications of Proteins
• Epidemiology
• Global Change Biology
• Medical Glycobiology
• Molecular Basis of Bacterial Infection
• Synthetic Biology
• Systems Neuroscience