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Bachelor of Science (Honours) Biology with Arabic


MA (Hons) 'with' Arabic Degrees: First year
Code Module name Credits
AR1001 Arabic for Beginners 1 20 AND
AR1002 Arabic for Beginners 2 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
BSc (Hons) Biology 'with' Degrees: First year
Code Module name Credits
BL1101 Biology 1 20 AND
BL1102 Biology 2 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) 'with' Arabic Degrees: Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ AR2001 Intermediate Arabic 1 20 AND
^ AR2002 Intermediate Arabic 2 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked ^
BSc (Hons) Biology 'with' Degrees: Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ View list 60 credits from Module List: BL2300 - BL2310 AND
BL2300 Research Methods in Biology 15
BL2301 Cell Biology 15
BL2302 Molecular Biology 15
BL2303 Evolutionary Biology 15
BL2304 Invertebrate Zoology 15
BL2305 Cell Systems 15
BL2306 Biochemistry 15
BL2307 Ecology 15
BL2308 Vertebrate Zoology 15
BL2309 Applied Molecular Biology 15
BL2310 Comparative Physiology 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options
AH1001 The Art of the Renaissance in Italy and Northern Europe 20
AH1003 European Art and Architecture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 20
AH2001 History and Theory of European Art, Architecture and Design from the French Revolution to Vienna 1900 20
AH2002 Art, Culture and Politics, from 1900 to Now 20
AN1001 The Greeks in a Wider World 20
AN1002 Rome and the Mediterranean 20
AN2002 The Roman Empire 20
AN2003 Mediterranean Communities 20
AR1001 Arabic for Beginners 1 20
AR1002 Arabic for Beginners 2 20
AR2001 Intermediate Arabic 1 20
AR2002 Intermediate Arabic 2 20
AR2004 Introduction to Classical Arab Culture 20
AS1001 Astronomy and Astrophysics 1 20
AS1002 The Physical Universe 20
AS2001 Astronomy and Astrophysics 2 30
BL1101 Biology 1 20
BL1102 Biology 2 20
BL2300 Research Methods in Biology 15
BL2301 Cell Biology 15
BL2302 Molecular Biology 15
BL2303 Evolutionary Biology 15
BL2304 Invertebrate Zoology 15
BL2305 Cell Systems 15
BL2306 Biochemistry 15
BL2307 Ecology 15
BL2308 Vertebrate Zoology 15
BL2309 Applied Molecular Biology 15
BL2310 Comparative Physiology 15
CH1301 The Impact of Chemistry 20
CH1401 Introductory Inorganic and Physical Chemistry 20
CH1402 Inorganic and Physical Chemistry 1 20
CH1601 Organic and Biological Chemistry 1 20
CH2501 Inorganic Chemistry 2 30
CH2601 Organic Chemistry 2 30
CH2603 Organic Chemistry 2 (French) 20
CH2701 Physical Chemistry 2 30
CL1004 Myth and Community in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 20
CL1005 Images of Augustan Rome 20
CL2003 Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy 20
CL2004 Culture and Thought in the Late Roman Republic 20
CO1001 The Nineteenth-Century Novel 20
CO1002 Drama in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 20
CO2001 Good and Evil 20
CO2002 Journeys 20
CS1002 Object-Oriented Programming 20
CS1003 Programming with Data 20
CS1005 Computer Science in Everyday Life 20
CS1006 Programming Projects 20
CS2001 Foundations of Computation 30
CS2002 Computer Systems 30
CS2003 The Internet and the Web: Concepts and Programming 30
CS2006 Advanced Programming Projects 30
DI1001 Theology: Issues and History 20
DI1003 Old Testament 1: Torah and Prophets 20
DI1004 Hebrew 1: Introduction to Hebrew Language 20
DI1005 New Testament Greek 1 20
DI1006 New Testament 1: Jesus and the Gospels 20
DI1009 Introduction to World Religions 20
DI1012 Introduction to Practical Theology and Theological Ethics 20
DI1013 Science, Religion, and the Mind 20
DI1201 From Adam to Apocalypse: The Bible and Western Culture 20
DI2000 Christian Thought and Practice 1 20
DI2001 Old Testament 2: Wisdom, Psalms, Apocalyptic and Apocryphal Literature 20
DI2002 Hebrew 2 20
DI2003 New Testament 2: Paul and the Epistles 20
DI2006 The Early and Medieval Church: History, Beliefs and Practices 20
DI2201 New Testament Greek 2 20
EC1001 Macroeconomics 20
EC1002 Microeconomics 20
EC1003 Mathematics for Economists 20
EC1004 Economics 20
EC1008 Finance 20
EC2001 Intermediate Microeconomics 20
EC2002 Intermediate Macroeconomics 20
EC2203 Statistics for Economists 20
EN1003 Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature 20
EN1004 Explorers and Revolutionaries: Literature 1680 - 1830 20
ES1001 Planet Earth 20
ES1002 Earth Resources and Environment 20
ES2001 Dynamic Earth: The Earth System 30
ES2002 Dynamic Earth: Magma, Minerals and Metamorphism 30
ES2003 Dynamic Earth: Earth Surface Processes 30
ET1001 English as a Foreign Language A 20
ET1002 English as a Foreign Language B 20
ET2001 Academic English 1 20
ET2002 Academic English 2 20
FM1001 Key Concepts in Film Studies 20
FM1002 Film History and Historiography 20
FM2001 Modern World Cinemas 20
FM2002 Film Culture, Theory, Entertainment 20
FR1001 French Language and Literature 1 20
FR1002 French Language and Literature 2 20
FR2201 Second Level French Language (1) 10
FR2202 Second Level French Language (2) 10
FR2203 French Civilisation: from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment 10
FR2204 French Civilisation: from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 10
FR2205 French Literature: from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment 10
FR2206 French Literature: from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 10
GG1001 Welcome to the Anthropocene: Society, Population, Environment 20
GG1002 A World in Crisis? 20
GG2011 Geographies of Global Change 30
GG2012 (Re)constructing environments, people and places 30
GK1001 Greek Language for Beginners 20
GK1002 Greek Literature for Beginners 20
GK1005 Greek Language and Literature 1 20
GK1006 Greek Pastoral and Passion 20
GK2001 The Landscape of Greek Prose (A) 20
GK2002 The Landscape of Greek Poetry (A) 20
GK2003 The Landscape of Greek Prose (B) 20
GK2004 The Landscape of Greek Poetry (B) 20
GM1001 First Level German A 1 20
GM1002 First Level German A 2 20
GM1003 First Level German B 1 20
GM1004 First Level German B 2 20
GM2003 Second Level German Language A 1 10
GM2004 Second Level German Language A 2 10
GM2007 Second Level German Language B 1 10
GM2008 Second Level German Language B 2 10
GM2011 The Age of Goethe 10
GM2012 Unification to the First World War 10
GM2013 Medieval German Language and Literature 10
GM2014 German Linguistics 10
HI2001 History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts 20
ID1003 Great Ideas 1 20
ID1004 Great Ideas 2 20
ID1006 Astrobiology: The Search for Life in the Universe 20
ID2003 Science Methods 10
ID2005 Scientific Thinking 15
IT1001 Introduction to Italian Language 20
IT1002 Italian Language (Elementary) 20
IT1003 Italian Language Intermediate 1 10
IT1004 Italian Language Intermediate 2 10
IT1013 Italian Geographies 10
IT1014 Italian Histories 10
IT2001 Second Level Italian 20
IT2002 Second Level Italian (Advanced) 20
LI1001 Foundations of Language 1 20
LI1002 Foundations of Language 2 20
LT1001 Elementary Latin 1 20
LT1002 Elementary Latin 2 20
LT1003 World of Latin 1 20
LT1004 World of Latin 2 20
LT2001 Latin Language and Literature 1 20
LT2002 Latin Language and Literature 2 20
LT2003 Latin in Progress 1 20
LT2004 Latin in Progress 2 20
ME1003 The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20
ME1006 Scotland and the English Empire 1070 - 1500 20
ME2003 Medieval Europe (1000-1400) 20
MH2002 Introduction to Middle Eastern History 20
MN1001 Organisations and Society 20
MN1002 Organisations and Analysis 20
MN2001 Management and Society 20
MN2002 Management and Analysis 20
MO1007 The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770) 20
MO1008 Themes in Late Modern History (c. 1776 - 2001) 20
MO2008 Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1500 - 2000) 20
MT1001 Introductory Mathematics 20
MT1002 Mathematics 20
MT1002 Mathematics 20
MT1003 Pure and Applied Mathematics 20
MT1007 Statistics in Practice 20
MT2501 Linear Mathematics 15
MT2501 Linear Mathematics 15
MT2502 Analysis 15
MT2503 Multivariate Calculus 15
MT2504 Combinatorics and Probability 15
MT2505 Abstract Algebra 15
MT2506 Vector Calculus 15
MT2507 Mathematical Modelling 15
MT2508 Statistical Inference 15
MU1003 Understanding Music (A) 20
MU1004 Making Music 20
MU1005 Reading Opera: Texts, Libretti and Music 20
MU1006 An Introduction to Ethnomusicology: why, and how, human beings are musical 20
MU1013 Understanding Music (B) 20
MU2001 Advanced Performance 20
MU2002 Scottish Music 20
MU2002 Scottish Music 20
MU2004 Electronic Music 20
MU2006 Music Leadership 20
PH1011 Physics 1A 20
PH1012 Physics 1B 20
PH2011 Physics 2A 30
PH2012 Physics 2B 30
PR1001 Persian for Beginners 1 20
PR1002 Persian for Beginners 2 20
PR2001 Intermediate Persian 1 20
PR2002 Intermediate Persian 2 20
PS1001 Psychology 1 20
PS1002 Psychology 2 20
PS2001 Psychology 1 30
PS2002 Psychology 2 30
PY1010 Mind and World 20
PY1011 Moral and Political Controversies 20
PY1012 Reasoning 20
PY1013 The Enlightenment 20
PY2010 Intermediate Logic 20
PY2011 Foundations of Western Philosophy 20
PY2012 Meaning and Knowing 20
PY2013 Moral and Aesthetic Value 20
RU1001 Elementary Russian Language 1 20
RU1002 Elementary Russian Language 2 20
RU1005 Advanced Elementary Russian Language and Literature 1 20
RU1006 Advanced Elementary Russian Language and Literature 2 20
RU2100 Intermediate Russian (Summer Course) 40
RU2201 Intermediate Russian Language 1 20
RU2202 Intermediate Russian Language 2 20
RU2203 Advanced Intermediate Russian Language 1 20
RU2204 Advanced Intermediate Russian Language 2 20
RU2205 Intermediate Russian Literature and Culture 1 10
RU2206 Intermediate Russian Literature and Culture 2 10
SA1001 Anthropology in the World 20
SA1002 Ways of Thinking 20
SA2001 The Foundations of Social Anthropology 20
SA2002 Ethnographic Encounters 20
SD1000 What is Sustainable Development? 20
SD1004 Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges and Opportunities 20
SD2001 Sustainable Development: Frameworks for Implementation 30
SD2002 Sustainable Development: Tools for Action 30
SP1002 Spanish Language and Texts 2 20
SP1004 Spanish for Beginners 2 20
SP2001 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 1 20
SP2002 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 2 20
SP2005 Spanish Language and Texts: ex-Beginners 20
SP2006 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Cinema 20
MN2112 Enterprise and Creativity 20
EN2003 Medieval and Renaissance Texts 20
EN2004 Drama: Reading and Performance 20
AS2101 Astrophysics 2 15
AS1101 Astrophysics (Direct Entry) 5
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked ^

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

See: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/teaching-and-learning/policies/honsentry.pdf )

BSc Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.

MA (Hons) 'with' Arabic Degrees: Third year
Code Module name Credits
AR3401 Media Arabic 1 15 AND
AR3402 Media Arabic 2 15

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year
BSc (Hons) Biology 'with' Degrees: Third year
Code Module name Credits
BL3320 Statistical and Quantitative Skills for Biologists 10 AND
View list 10 credits from Module List: BL3000, PN3321, BL3322 AND
BL3000 Field Course 10
PN3321 Advanced Critical Analysis Reading Party 10
BL3322 Basic Biochemistry Laboratory 10
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 80 credits from Module List: BL3301 - BL3319, BL3323, PN3312 - PN3313
BL3301 Protein Structure and Function 20
BL3302 Gene Regulation 20
BL3303 Membranes and Cell Communication 20
BL3307 Evolution 20
BL3308 Aquatic Ecology 20
BL3309 Ecosystems and Conservation 20
BL3310 Bioenergetics 20
BL3311 Infection and Disease 20
BL3315 Developmental Biology 20
BL3316 Animal Plant Interactions 20
BL3318 Biology of Marine Organisms 20
BL3319 Animal Behaviour: A Quantitative Approach 20
BL3323 Terrestrial Zoology 20
PN3312 Neuropharmacology 20
PN3313 Neuroscience 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year
MA (Hons) 'with' Arabic Degrees: Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
AR4401 Advanced Arabic 1 15 AND
AR4402 Advanced Arabic 2 15

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year
BSc (Hons) Biology 'with' Degrees: Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
( BL4200 Literature-based Research Project 30 OR
BL4201 Experimental Research Project 60 ) AND
View list 20 credits from Module List: BL3301 - BL3319 AND
BL3301 Protein Structure and Function 20
BL3302 Gene Regulation 20
BL3303 Membranes and Cell Communication 20
BL3307 Evolution 20
BL3308 Aquatic Ecology 20
BL3309 Ecosystems and Conservation 20
BL3310 Bioenergetics 20
BL3311 Infection and Disease 20
BL3315 Developmental Biology 20
BL3316 Animal Plant Interactions 20
BL3318 Biology of Marine Organisms 20
BL3319 Animal Behaviour: A Quantitative Approach 20
PN3312 Neuropharmacology 20
PN3313 Neuroscience 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: BL3301-BL3319, BL4210-BL4301, ID4001, PN3312-3, PN4230-1, PN4234-5
BL3301 Protein Structure and Function 20
BL3302 Gene Regulation 20
BL3303 Membranes and Cell Communication 20
BL3307 Evolution 20
BL3308 Aquatic Ecology 20
BL3309 Ecosystems and Conservation 20
BL3310 Bioenergetics 20
BL3311 Infection and Disease 20
BL3315 Developmental Biology 20
BL3316 Animal Plant Interactions 20
BL3318 Biology of Marine Organisms 20
BL3319 Animal Behaviour: A Quantitative Approach 20
BL4210 Practical Skills for Molecular Biology and Biochemistry 15
BL4211 Antimicrobials - Mode of Action and Resistance 15
BL4212 How Enzymes Work 15
BL4213 Molecular Virology 15
BL4215 Bacterial Virulence Factors 15
BL4216 Structure-based Drug Discovery 15
BL4220 Geomicrobiology - from Gold Mines to Global Warming, how Microbes influence our Planet 15
BL4222 Metabolic and Clinical Biochemistry 15
BL4223 Molecular and cell biology of eukaryotic DNA replication 15
BL4224 Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Trafficking 15
BL4225 Advanced Microscopy and Image Analysis - Seeing is Believing 15
BL4226 Chromatin and Genome Stability 15
BL4230 Neurodegeneration and Aging 15
BL4231 Neuromodulation 15
BL4232 Neuroethology 15
BL4234 Synaptic Transmission 15
BL4235 Motoneurons: From Physiology to Pathology 15
BL4248 Human Physiology of Diving 15
BL4249 Scientific Diving 15
BL4251 Tropical Marine Biology 15
BL4254 Fisheries Research 15
BL4255 Marine and Environmental Biotechnology 15
BL4256 Marine Bioacoustics 15
BL4258 Foraging in Marine Mammals 15
BL4259 Marine Mammals and Man 15
BL4260 Biological Oceanography 15
BL4262 Environmental Drivers of Marine Habitats 15
BL4263 The Question of Culture in Animals 15
BL4266 Conservation Research Methods 15
BL4268 Science Communication of Biodiversity and Conservation 15
BL4270 Plant-environment Interactions 15
BL4273 Bioinformatics for Biologists 15
BL4274 Evolutionary Developmental Biology 15
BL4275 Evolution in Action 15
BL4278 Biology of Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Vertebrates 15
BL4279 The CRISPR system for Antiviral Defence and Genome Engineering 15
BL4280 Evolution and Human Behaviour 15
BL4281 Animal Communication and Cognition 15
BL4282 Biology and Behaviour of Social Insects 15
BL4284 Breeding Systems and Sexual Conflict 15
BL4285 Complex Systems in Animal Behaviour 15
BL4286 Advanced Topics in Evolution 15
BL4288 Major Review Paper in Evolutionary Biology 15
BL4289 Animal Cognition 15
BL4301 Polar Ecology: A field course in Antarctica 15
ID4001 Communication and Teaching in Science 15
PN3312 Neuropharmacology 20
PN3313 Neuroscience 20
PN4230 Neurodegeneration and Aging 15
PN4231 Neuromodulation 15
PN4234 Synaptic Transmission 15
PN4235 Motoneurons: From Physiology to Pathology 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Choose a minimum of 80 credits.

Other information

With the permission of the Director of Teaching up to 20 credits per programme may be taken in a module outwith the specified modules in all School of Biology Programmes. Where there are choices between modules in the programmes, some options may have pre-requisites therefore the 1000- and 2000-level modules taken may limit choices. The availability of 4000-level modules in the School of Biology will be dependent on sufficient student demand.

Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant St Andrews School in the Learning Agreement (see www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/study-abroad/academic ).