Biosciences

MSc Applied Biochemistry and Biocatalysis

Programme structure

Total credits required: 180

Compulsory modules

• Professional Skills (15)
• Research Project (90)
• Dissertation (15)

Option modules

Four from:

• Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry (15)
• Advanced Biological Chemistry (15)
• Introduction to Genomics in Society (15)
• Introduction to Molecular Biology (15)
• Sequence Analysis and Structural Bioinformatics (15)
• Environmental and Applied Biotechnology (15)

For a full list and details of the individual modules, please see the MSc Applied Biochemistry and Biocatalysis programme pages on the College of Life and Environmental Sciences section of our website.

Please note that availability of all modules is subject to timetabling constraints and that not all modules are available every year.

Assessment

By a combination of written and oral examinations; coursework; a dissertation; oral reporting of laboratory work; poster reporting of laboratory work; the laboratory notebook and; the final research project report (maximum 15,000 words).