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






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