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STUDY RESEARCH PROJECT
Throughout your intercalated year, emphasis is placed
Please see page 56 for an outline of what is studied during on a research project, which accounts for 25-50% of the
the five-year programme, along with the practical and clinical intercalated degree programme. You will have a choice
teaching delivered. You will typically study your intercalated year of different projects, from a broad range of specialisation
between the second and third year of the Bachelor of Veterinary including locomotion, reproduction, cell and molecular biology,
Medicine course. During the year you will take modules that physiology, epidemiology, infection and immunity. For this part
are credit rated. One credit is equivalent to 10-hours91΄σΙρ study of the course you will work with an established academic
time (including home study and exam revision). To pass the team, who will help to guide your research and ensure you
intercalated year you will need to complete 120 credits of study. develop any skills you need to complete the study. For the BSc
Bioveterinary Sciences your project will count either 30 or 60
credits towards your intercalated degree, for BSc Comparative
Pathology all projects will contribute 60 credits to your
intercalated degree.
MODULES INTERCALATED INTERCALATED
Please note that these are indicative BSC BIOVETERINARY COMPARATIVE
modules and may be subject to change. SCIENCES PATHOLOGY
In addition to the research project, 91΄σΙρ’ Advanced concepts in bio-business 91΄σΙρ’ Principles of pathology
all courses have some element of 91΄σΙρ’ Applications of pathology
coursework. Both courses are modular, 91΄σΙρ’ Advanced concepts in reproduction
for the BSc Bioveterinary Sciences you 91΄σΙρ’ Applied molecular microbiology
will have a choice of modules (examples 91΄σΙρ’ Advanced skeletal pathobiology 91΄σΙρWithin my BSc Comparative
are given below) and you will be able 91΄σΙρ’ Animal behaviour Pathology intercalated
to select modules based on your own and cognition year, I have learnt
interest. For BSc Comparative Pathology, 91΄σΙρ’ Applied animal welfare practical skills such as
there are two compulsory modules which conducting post mortems
contribute the 60 credits that together 91΄σΙρ’ Comparative animal and understanding the
with the research project allow you to locomotion importance of research, as
complete the degree. 91΄σΙρ’ Comparative models well as soft skills such as
of disease learning how to communicate
Examples of optional modules (credit 91΄σΙρ’ Development and disease complex scientific information in a
ratings are shown after the name of the digestible manner for those listening.91΄σΙρ
module. Students would need to select 91΄σΙρ’ Endocrine and metabolic syndromes
modules that together with the 30 or 60 91΄σΙρ’ Epidemiology: the bigger picture WILLIAM WRIGHT
credit research projects add to a total of
120 credits). All modules are 15 credits 91΄σΙρ’ Infection and immunity BSc Comparative Pathology
unless noted otherwise. 91΄σΙρ’ Parasitology of human and veterinary
tropical diseases
91΄σΙρ’ Practical investigative biology
91΄σΙρ’ Science of animal welfare
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