Course Details
Course Name
Neuroscience with Preliminary Year and Professional Training Year BSc
Level of study
Undergraduate
Study Mode
Fulltime
Duration
5 Years
Start Term
Sept
Country
United Kingdom
City
Cardiff
Course Subject
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Medicine & Health
Course Fees
Inside EU: 9000
Outside EU: 19950
Universities
Cardiff University
Description
Our Neuroscience degree with Preliminary Year and Professional Training Year is a five-year course. The Preliminary Year covers key topics in Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics and leads to a BSc in any of the subjects offered by the School of Biosciences. The purpose of the Preliminary Year is to provide students who don’t have a sufficient background in science with the basis of scientific knowledge to enable them to thrive in the year one curriculum and beyond.
Neuroscience is the study of nervous systems, their component nerve cells and the functioning of the brain. The human brain contains one hundred thousand million such cells and how it works remains one of the most alluring of all questions on the frontiers of understanding. Can the brain understand the brain? Can the brain understand the mind? Is the brain a giant computer or something more?
This degree will explore the ways in which we can attempt to answer these questions, using approaches that range from the biochemistry and biophysics of the nerve cell to a psychologist’s investigation of the machinery of the mind. The recent growth of this subject is due to the important contribution neuroscience is making to the understanding and treatment of mental and other neurological disorders.
Your third year is spent on a professional work placement related to your degree. Experience shows that this greatly enhances your subsequent employment prospects.
Although you may join the School on the BSc Neuroscience programme, your degree title remains flexible up until your final year. You can choose to stick with your original degree registration, or switch to another of our bioscience courses. You can also choose to graduate with one of our 'exit' degrees, which include BSc Biomedical Sciences (Physiology) and BSc Biological Sciences (Genetics).
Your final degree title will depend on module selection in years two and three, and your Personal Tutor will guide you through the options available to you. You may also have the option of switching to the four year MNeuro integrated Master's degree (subject to academic progress and space availability).
This course will enable you to increase your scientific understanding, as well as developing both your academic skills (critical appraisal, evaluation and analysis of data) and practical, presentation and written skills. Ultimately, we aim to produce graduates who are employable, well-informed, versatile and enthusiastic ambassadors for science.
The knowledge and skills that you develop during your Neuroscience degree will make you employable in a broad range of scientific careers including research, healthcare, publishing and teaching. The skills acquired on the course are also an excellent grounding for many other career paths outside of science. Alternatively you may wish to further your studies by pursuing a Master's degree or PhD.
Distinctive features
Our degrees are closely linked to the research interests of our staff, allowing you to experience the excitement of learning in an active research environment. We attract substantial external research funding and this will enable you to make use of the latest equipment, techniques and facilities in your project work. The School also leads the University's Neuroscience & Mental Health Research Institute, allowing access to a wide range of exciting training opportunities.
This programme offers a high degree of flexibility, giving you the freedom to shape your academic experience. You can also choose to specialise in a particular area or to maintain a wide breadth of learning and explore the interdisciplinary research that underpins much of the School's success.
“One of the benefits of being a student at Cardiff School of Biosciences is having access to very high-quality, research-driven teaching. All of the lecturers that we have here are researchers right at the edge of their fields, working on really frontier stuff. It’s really interesting and really captures your imagination.” Robert Maddison – Undergraduate student