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MODULES
Please note that these are indicative modules and may be subject to change.
Compulsory modules: • Integrated physiology I /15
YEAR • Biology of cells /15* • Integrated physiology II /15
1 • Inheritance, genetics and evolution /15 • Problem definition and investigation
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(includes first-year library research project) /30
• Developmental biology /15
The moving animal /15
Compulsory modules: Optional modules:
YEAR • Basis of disease/15 • Applied pharmacology /15
2 • Ageing and degeneration /15 • Introduction to ‘One Health’ /15
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• Principles of infectious disease /15 • Imaging of Disease /15
•
Introduction to Animal Behaviour,
Control of infectious disease /15
• Principles of pharmacology /15 Welfare and Ethics /15
• Research project /30
Compulsory modules:
YEAR • Research project /60
3 Optional modules (to total 45 credits):

• Advanced concepts in bio-business /15 • Omics approach to biology /15
• Advanced concepts in reproduction /15 • Comparative Anatomy /15
• Applied molecular microbiology /15 • Endocrine and metabolic syndromes /15
• Advanced skeletal pathobiology /15 • Epidemiology: the bigger picture /15
• Animal behaviour and cognition /15 • Infection and immunity /30
*/number = no. of • Applied animal welfare /15 • Parasitology of human and veterinary
credits per module • Comparative animal locomotion /30 tropical diseases /15
• Comparative models of disease /15 • Practical investigative biology /15
• Development and disease /15 • Science of animal welfare /15

You can choose from several optional modules at King’s College London during your third year.
YEAR • Research skills /15
4 • Extended research project /105

YOUR CAREER
“The ability to learn about both veterinary and human
The RVC’s MSci Applied Biological aspects of biological science allows me to understand
Research is a challenging yet rewarding
course that will equip you with practical the scope of this field in a broader way. It is a very
techniques and transferable skills for a interesting course where we get the opportunity
range of careers allied to biomedical and to understand both industry and academia. The
veterinary scientific research and academia. teaching staff are very friendly and interactive, along
Students have gone on to study a PhD, with them being active researchers in their respective
as well as careers in biotechnology and fields enabled the learning environment to be very
pharmaceutical industries and allied motivating and inspiring. Getting hands-on practical
sectors such as scientific publishing. skills makes me confident in my ability to navigate
Careers in fields such as conservation, around a lab when I start my work placement year”
animal welfare, charity sector, teaching,
science communication and outreach, Soumya Sharma
publishing, civil service graduate schemes MSci Applied Biological Research
and in sectors as diverse as finance and
accountancy are also available to graduates.
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