BSc (Hons) Zoology Bachelor's degree at Roehampton University

Learn from, about, and with peers from other professional programmes, supporting interprofessional collaboration. Develop essential academic and study skills while exploring what it means to be a professional. Examine key ethical, legal, and regulatory frameworks relevant to each student's chosen discipline.

Explore the billions of years of evolution and adaptation within the animal kingdom and beyond. From single-celled organisms to complex animals, life has diversified into countless forms, each uniquely adapted to survive and thrive in our planet's variety of environments.

Interprofessional module introducing key concepts and core foundations for the scientific study of life. Develop a solid understanding of the structure and function of living organisms through the study of anatomy and physiological systems. Explore core physiological principles across the lifespan.

Foundational introduction to molecular biology. Study the chemical structure and function of DNA, RNA, and proteins, gaining insight into how genetic information is stored, transmitted, expressed, and regulated in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Core topics include DNA replication, transcription, translation, the Genetic Code, and the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology.

5-day residential field course at Dale Fort in Wales, with intensive, hands-on experience studying various UK ecosystems from coastlines and woodlands to rivers and sand dunes. Data collection continues in London, including bringing samples into the lab for further inspection. Develops high level field, laboratory, and digital skills for the expert naturalist.

Focus on the evolution, comparative anatomy and physiology of animals with backbones, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including the primates (non-human and human). Develop a holistic understanding of vertebrate biodiversity, adaptation, and conservation.

Understand how the scientific method is critical for zoologists, including how to develop and undertake robust studies and subsequent data analyses. Learn how to critique published work, classic pitfalls of experimental design and how to analyse 'big data' with stats packages and by coding.

Study organisms' interactions with other individuals and other species, sometimes synergistically and other times antagonistically. Understanding species interactions is vital for ecology, conservation, and predicting the impacts of environmental changes on biodiversity and ecosystem stability. Includes pollination, predation, competition, mutualism and parasitism.

Explore how animal behaviour has evolved and is adaptive to particular environmental pressures. Explore foraging, mating, communication, social structures and predator-prey interactions, revealing how an animal's behaviours works and how it enhance its survival and reproduction.

Explores key hot topics at the forefront of global ecology and conservation science. Examines patterns of biodiversity alongside the accelerating degradation of critical ecosystems from freshwater and marine environments to terrestrial habitats. Themes evolve each year to reflect emerging research and real-world developments, may include climate change, habitat destruction, rewilding, freshwater pollution, ocean contamination, zoonotic diseases, biodiversity collapse.

Acquiring an in depth understanding of a focussed area of research, completing a year-long sustained investigative project. Deploy rigorous scientific techniques to research and analyse the zoological topic of your choice, supported by a supervisor with international expertise in the field.

Gain invaluable vocational experience, with insights and understanding about graduate work associated with a Zoology degree. Supported by an academic tutor, with 50 hours minimum at work. Option to undertake 50 hours of work placement by taking the South African field course that runs in June/July every year.

Develop core academic and integrated English language skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing. Become familiar with key academic skills and concepts, such as referencing methods and awareness of academic integrity and tone. Apply these skills and knowledge to both broad topics and also your chosen subject pathway.

Assessment: Group and individual presentations, comparative and reflective essays, multiple choice exams, coursework and reports, oral exams, portfolios, case studies and blogs.

Develop core academic and integrated English language skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing. Become familiar with key academic skills and concepts, such as referencing methods and awareness of academic integrity and tone. Apply these skills and knowledge to both broad topics and also your chosen subject pathway.

Assessment: Group and individual presentations, comparative and reflective essays, multiple choice exams, coursework and reports, oral exams, portfolios, case studies and blogs.

Develop research, numeracy and information technology skills. Investigate the difference between primary and secondary research, conduct your own research project and demonstrate your findings through data analysis. Develop awareness of equality, diversity and inclusion in the UK, through a real-world issue; discrimination in the workplace.

Assessment: Group and individual presentations, comparative and reflective essays, multiple choice exams, coursework and reports, oral exams, portfolios, case studies and blogs.

Essential introduction to the core principles and concepts that underpin biological sciences offering a multidisciplinary approach to understanding life at the molecular, cellular, and organismal levels. Examine how genetic, environmental, and socio-economic factors affect biological processes, with a focus on how certain groups may experience differing health risks or benefits.