Life Sciences Undergraduate Certificate

Leading to degrees in subjects including:

• Biology
• Brewing and Distilling
• Chemistry
• Food Science, Technology and Management
• Marine Biology
• Sport and Exercise Science

Academic Structure

Core Subjects

Academic English Skills 1

Develop your ability to read academic texts, write extended texts, write subjective notes, listen effectively and participate in classroom discourse.

Academic English Skills 2

Improve all your abilities developed in AES1 with greater accuracy, speed, coherence, organisation and presentation.

Study Skills In The British Environment

Use your study time more effectively, improve your use of, and range of, information sources and develop your research skills in preparation for producing an extended, referenced, academic essay.

Project Study

Complete a self-study project on a topic that you will take, in consultation with your tutor, from the academic discipline that you will subsequently study at degree level. This will also include computer (word processing) skills.

Pure Mathematics 1

Understand and interpret straight lines and linear equations, set theory and probability, statistics, linear programming, indices and logarithms and experimental laws.

Specific Route Modules

Cell Biology

Learn about biological molecules, cellular structure, cell division, movement through cell membranes, enzymes and metabolic pathways.

Physiology

Study the cardiovascular system, the respiratory system, the digestive system, osmo-regulation, control and co-ordination and reproduction.

Chemistry 1

Learn formulae, equations and moles, atomic structure, introduction to redox systems, thermodynamics and bonding.

Chemistry 2

Study equilibria, acid-base equilibria, kinetics and organic chemistry.

Further Studies in Biology and Chemistry

Further studies in Genetics, Ecology and Plant Biology plus Inorganic chemistry, oxidation/Reduction Reactions and Transition Element Chemistry.