Bioveterinary Science (Top Up) Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

Our Bioveterinary Science ‘top-up’ degree programme is designed to help you develop and enhance your specialist knowledge following completion of a relevant Level 5 qualification.

This programme will help you to develop sound academic and practical knowledge of the disciplines and factors related to animal science in relation to a range of species and areas of the animal industry, preparing you for an exciting career within veterinary and/or animals science.

There is an increasing demand for people with a combination of both academic and practical competence within the animal industry, which is why this course allows you to learn in a vocational and applied nature. You will complete both lessons and assessments on our animal unit and farm, working with a variety of species, as well as developing practical science and industry skills within our state-of-the-art labs.

Course aims

* To prepare you for working within the veterinary or animal science industry, allowing you to learn in-depth biology and physiology of animals. The programme includes the science behind animal health, disease and welfare.

* To enhance your knowledge, helping you to further specialise and gain skills required to work across the veterinary and animal science industry.

* To ensure that you have the necessary laboratory skills to work in a range of areas, completing a number of lab-based modules. There is a focus towards production animals within the programmes as this is a key area of employment.

* To allow you to specialise in an area of research that you are interested in that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the degree programme.

Teaching and Learning Approach\
This programme is delivered with a variety of learning and teaching approaches to include all students’ learning styles and preferences. For all modules, theory lectures are delivered that aim to deliver the core content and provide the underpinning knowledge.

To complement the theory lectures, students have group seminars/practical sessions that are used to reinforce concepts delivered theoretically. The teaching methods focus on facilitating a student-centred approach to enhance the independent learning that takes place outside of the classroom.

Time Required on Campus\
The full-time pathway includes up to 9 hours a week, incorporating lectures, seminars, practicals and tutorials. Additional to this time will be final project support sessions that you can book with your supervisor.

You are also expected to carry out a significant amount of independent study in addition to contact time (approximately 25-30 hours a week). Independent study includes reading around the subject, preparing for tutorials and seminars, preparing for, and completing, module assessments; forming an essential part of your learning journey.

You can expect to receive your timetable during induction week.

Progression\
Graduates may be able to progress to the MSc Applied Animal Behaviour and Training or MSc Animal Behaviour and Welfare, which are available through blended learning at University Centre Bishop Burton

Careers

Graduates can pursue roles as a welfare inspector (e.g. DEFRA, RSPCA), laboratory animal technician, welfare scientist, environmental enrichment co-ordinator, agriculture consultant, laboratory scientist, animal rescue and rehabilitation, reproduction technologist, in research, management positions or animal welfare societies. We have had graduates go onto successful roles within the Animal Plant and Health Agency, IDEXX labs and Rainbow Equine Hospital.