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course, including PADI Open Water diving training, at a subsidised rate. You are accompanied by experienced academics from our Department who carry out research in this beautiful and ecologically important location.
Research project In your final year, you will have the opportunity to carry out a research project: for some students this is a return to Indonesia or other field locations abroad or closer to home to collect data. Projects are also available and linked to our partners at Colchester Zoo and within local environmental agencies.
For students interested in laboratory science, they may be culturing bacterial or animal cells, studying how genes are regulated, or how proteins function. Projects relate to the research interests of academic staff and are carried out under close supervision in their laboratories, using equipment and facilities at the forefront of modern scientific research. The methods you use in your project work include tissue culture, genetic engineering and cloning, confocal microscopy and protein analysis.
How is my course
structured and taught? Each year you complete eight modules. Most courses offer the flexibility to change at the end of the first year. In the second and third years, courses combine compulsory core modules with optional modules in related subjects. The modules are taught in lectures, combined with practicals and classes, and tutorials are used with smaller groups of students. In teaching assessments we have been praised for the carefully planned progression of key skills and practical skills in our modules and for developing your independent learning.
How am I assessed? Assessment in each year is based on coursework (practical work, reports, essays, presentations and project work) and end-of-year examinations. Your final degree class is based on your second- and third-year marks, with coursework accounting for more than 50 per cent of your marks.
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What can I go on to do with my degree?
Our courses are designed to develop the key skills which employers value. You will learn how to communicate effectively, orally and in writing. You will develop very strong analytical, numerical and ICT skills, be able to work as part of a team and know how to manage your time effectively and meet deadlines. You will develop a personal development portfolio to use in learning and to demonstrate your training record to future employers. The strong practical component in our courses also means that you will have all the subject-related skills needed to prepare you for degree-related employment.
Our students have taken up a wide range of careers in research laboratories, consultancies, business and industry,
conservation practice and in environmental assessment. Others have followed careers in teaching, publishing and management. A high proportion of our graduates take the opportunity for further study leading to MSc or PhD degrees.
Rashmi Swamy (graduated 2008) is now undertaking a Masters in Genetic Counselling and Diana Nixon (2007) is working as an environmental field scientist. Pete Thomas (2007) is also working as a field scientist for Blue Ventures Madagascar Expedition and Andy Brash (2006) is currently working in the pharmaceutical industry.
Graduate study Our Department offers research supervision for the degrees of MSc by dissertation, MPhil and PhD, as well as taught Masters courses.
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