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anyone doing Zoology at Nottingham? what's it like

I was just wondering what the zoology course was like at Nottingham, is there much choice of modules? any field trips? what's the workload like?

Reply 1

crapulous

I'm doing zoology at Nottingham next year, hopefully that is!
There is plenty of info on their website about choice of modules:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/biology/courses/undergraduate-degrees/zoology.phtml?menu=zoo

But it would be good to hear from anyone currently doing the course to find out what its really like.

Reply 2

Knight-of-Ni

Just so you know, nottinghma is currebtly ranked around equal to cambridge for many of its biology based kinda sciences. ANd i recommend you write in the nottingham thread under universities... theres loadsa lovely people there who'd be happy to answer your questions - they've answered mine! :smile:

Reply 3

your.angel

Bit late, but zoology at Notts is great! :-)

I graduated last year, and really enjoyed it.

Make sure you do the hormones and reproduction module in year 2 (or year 3 if you're really smart as it's worth more then!) - the Prof. is the best, the exam is multiple choice, and everyone does really well!

There's lots of choice of modules - you have much more flexibility than the biology students (many of them transferred to zoology during their degrees). I did all sorts of things, from conservation to behaviour to anthropology to embryology..

There are a few opportunities for field trips too, including one module which is entirely a field trip to Portugal.

Workload is fine. By the 3rd year I think I had only 9-12 hrs per week of lectures, so there's loads of time to do all the extra reading etc that you need to do.

Hope this helps.

Reply 4

Jaynie

Thanks for that, out of interest what are you doing now you have graduated are you using our zoology degree?