- Individuals, organizations, and governments around the world are increasingly concerned about the welfare of our planet and everything on it. This includes our marine environments where many factors, including human behavior, have left a large number of species at risk.
- This degree course will prepare them for a career in marine biology, ecology, or conservation. In their foundation year, students will cover a broad range of subjects including biology, chemistry, and maths, helping them to prepare for higher-level study. They will then move on to the first year of our BSc (Hons) Marine Biology with Conservation and Biodiversity.
- They will spend the next three years exploring diverse ecosystems in our labs and develop a deep understanding of concerns and solutions of marine environments. They will learn about marine biodiversity locally and around the world, and explore conservation ecology, which aims to support, recover and maintain populations and their habitats.
- On our field trips you might experience marine biology in Scotland; zoos in the Netherlands; wildlife and ecology in Africa; and diving and marine biology overseas. In their second year, they will take a week-long field trip to north Devon to experience both marine and terrestrial zoology, the costs of which are included in your course fees. There is also a final-year residential at a UK marine biology station, which is included in your course fees. They will need to pay for any optional trips.
- Cambridge is becoming a world center for wildlife conservation, with Fauna and Flora International, Birdlife International, and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre based here. Throughout the course, they will have opportunities to attend lectures in the city and visit specialist museums and libraries.
- If they choose our work placement year option, they could have the opportunity to put their knowledge into practice at the Sea Life London Aquarium.
