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

Compulsory modules: Optional modules (to total 30 credits):
YEAR • Biodiversity Action Plan Dissertation /30 • Advanced concepts in reproduction /15
3 • Research project /30 • Applied molecular microbiology /15
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• Interventions in Wild Animal Health /15 • Advanced skeletal pathobiology /15
Detection, surveillance, and emerging
Animal behaviour and cognition /15
diseases /15 • Comparative animal locomotion /30
• Development and disease /15
• Endocrine and metabolic syndromes /15
• Parasitology of human and veterinary
tropical diseases /15
• Science of animal welfare /15

You can choose from several optional modules at King’s College London during your third year.
Compulsory modules:
YEAR • Research skills /15 “This course opens up a world
4 • Research project /105 of research and opportunities to

find your own niche and interests.
*/number = no. of credits per module The practical elements paired
with the cutting-edge scientific

YOUR CAREER research makes it the ideal place
to begin a scientific career. Since
Our MSci Biological Sciences (WHS) gives our students graduating I have worked in South
groundings in both basic health sciences, and their application in Africa as a Field Biologist for the
the field of wildlife health. Career options are therefore reflective Kalahari Meerkat Project, and at
of these skills. We expect graduates from this course to be
pursuing careers in wildlife management (government agencies in Oxford Biomedica manufacturing
both developing and developed countries), wildlife rehabilitation, the AstraZenica vaccine. I am now
wildlife related research (universities, zoological collections) a PhD student, I hope to provide
or zoo management. Some will continue to study towards a scientific evidence to aid primate
PhD. Additionally, some of our graduates may choose to use conservation.”
their animal health science training and apply it to domestic
animals – so many of the skills are transferable. There is also Kelly Sambucci
the opportunity to apply to our Graduate Accelerated BVetMed MSci Wild Animal Biology
programme if you aspire to become a veterinary surgeon.
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