About Veterinary Biosciences, BSc (Hons) - at University of Glasgow
This innovative programme, taught jointly by the Faculties of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical & Life Sciences is unique within Scotland in offering a programme dedicated to those areas of science that underpin veterinary medicine.
The programme brings together a world-renowned veterinary faculty and one of Europe’s largest groups of life scientists within the Faculty of Biomedical & Life Sciences. The faculties foster an environment in which cross-fertilisation of ideas and multidisciplinary research collaborations can thrive, and where integrated student education and training can be achieved.
The programme will provide you with an understanding of those aspects of animal science which underpin both the role and use of animals in society and in modern veterinary and laboratory animal practice. As such, the programme will concentrate on those species which have a major societal impact, and will be based on a foundation of core subjects including molecular and cellular biology, proteins and immunology, anatomy and physiology of domestic and laboratory mammals, genetics and oncogenesis, the causes and development of infectious diseases, pathological principles underlying disease processes, the principles and effects of drug action, experimental design and biostatistics and a consideration of management principles.
What will I study?The first two years of the programme will consist of chemistry, biology, animal husbandry and comparative biomedical sciences such as anatomy and physiology, combined with biomolecular sciences and a wide choice of related subjects.
In year three, the focus will be on pathological sciences (for example infectious disease and molecular oncology), and will embrace the principles and effect of drug action.
The final taught year will include courses on scientific methods, statistics, population medicine, epidemiology and animal welfare, ethics and legislation and a significant research project.
Work placementDepending on the results of the first two years of the programme you may be eligible to apply for a one-year work placement as an integrated part of your degree to be undertaken after third year. The placement year will normally be spent doing research in industry or some other organisation, usually in the UK but occasionally overseas. The extension of the programme to five years of study in this way will lead to the MSci degree.
What academic support is available?Support is provided by the Student Support Office, and you will also be allocated a student adviser.
The purpose-built James Herriot Library provides a dedicated study area with online search facilities and in addition all students have access to the University Library at Gilmorehill.
