Program Description

This three-year BSc is about animals, their evolution and their interactions with each other, the environment and biodiversity conservation. It spans microbes, invertebrates, birds, fish, mammals and humans.  Students will learn how they evolved, how their physiology works, how they behave, and how they respond to global change.

Students will discover how biodiversity is maintained and lost, and use this knowledge to help address important issues such as tropical wildlife conservation, disease outbreaks and maintaining functioning ecosystems.

Students cover three main themes at Sheffield:

• their comparative physiology - the functional characteristics of animals
• their evolutionary biology - how animals adapt to their environment
• their behaviour, ecology and conservation - how animals interact with their environment and each other to support biodiversity on the planet

Alongside their specialist zoology modules, from their first year, students have the freedom to study topics across the breadth of biology to complement their knowledge. Topics range from ecology and molecular genetics that underpin conservation, to pharmacology, neuroscience and even human physiology. This flexibility allows students to study zoology in greater depth, broaden their interests or even switch to another biosciences degree programme.