Such a breath of subjects involves a large number of specialities, and as one of the largest Bioscience departments in the UK with over 100 academic staff, the School of Biosciences at Cardiff University is able to provide the comprehensive coverage required. All of this provides ample opportunity for you to explore your chosen subject in depth, but also discover aspects of the biosciences that you might not have encountered before. In the Zoology degree at Cardiff you will be presented with a broad general approach to the subject in the first two years, which covers the main animal groups as well as levels of organisation such as genetics, cell biology, physiology, ecology and animal behaviour. Then in your final year you will be able to specialise in the area of zoology that interests you the most. Particular strengths in the School include conservation genetics, parasitology, freshwater biology, ecology and animal behaviour. Throughout, you will be taught by enthusiastic staff, many of whom are internationally renowned scientists in their own particular field (for example, a previous Head of the School, Sir Martin Evans, won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2007). In all the degrees there is the option of taking a professional training year (sandwich year) between your second and third years, when you can go and work in an approved research establishment. The School has extensive laboratory and research facilities as well as a tropical field centre at Sabah in north east Borneo. Field courses are a particular feature of the Zoology degree at Cardiff, and you will have the opportunity of visiting Sabah, or undertaking alternative courses in places such as the UK, France, Tobago or Kenya. Note that some field courses are at extra cost to students. In the final year you will also be required to undertake an independent research project, during which you will be personally guided and helped by a member of the academic staff.

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