Environment & Biodiversity credits from the Open University, Summer School, UGCredit, Summer Course, Certificate of Credit, Institutional Undergraduate Credit
Syracuse Academy Italy
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Biological sciences is an academic discipline that broadly covers any subject that studies living organisms and the science of ‘life’. This can include, but is not limited to, biology, zoology, genetics, plant science, and microbiology. As a student of biological sciences, you may look at things such as the interactions between animals, and how genes are expressed, among other things.
Graduates of a degree in biological sciences have a wide range of career options available to them. These include biochemist, laboratory technician, natural scientist, biological sciences teacher, and conservation biologist, as well as many other paths.
Your degree will be delivered in a mixture of modes. These will include lectures and seminars, as well as practical laboratory sessions. Depending on your course, you may also have the opportunity to take part in a work placement. Modules you study could include:
Home to some of the world's oldest universities, Italy has a long history of providing high quality higher education to both domestic and international students. The country has not only played an integral part of the Bologna Process education reform, it was also one of the four countries that created the European Area of Higher Education. Both of these play an important role in widening the access to higher education across Europe, with international students from all over the world now able to experience an Italian university education, thanks to the country's contributions.
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