Marine Biology BSc (Hons)

Course Content

This course typically involves up to 30 hours per week of lectures, practicals laboratory and fieldwork, private study, tutorials and project work. Many modules include day field trips, for example to intertidal mud flats and rocky shores. In year 2 there is a day trip and a field course based on the research ship and in year 3 hypothesis testing exercises are undertaken during the intertidal field project. You also have the option of an overseas field course in Virginia, USA. Your practical work is continually assessed, and examination of each module is by multiple choice questions, laboratory tests and written examinations. The dissertation is assessed by a presentation and a report.

Facilities

• We have a £3.5m ocean-going research ship and three smaller inshore vessels. You may be able to collect data for your year 4 project aboard the Prince Madog and have access to the smaller vessels.
• Our excellent facilities include tropical marine and temperate marine aquaria, analytical laboratories, flow and particle transport simulators and computing capabilities.
• We have unrivalled local access to the ocean and numerous intertidal habitats for undertaking experimental work, including rocky shores, sandy shores and saltmarshes, ideal for undertaking experimental work in the intertidal environment.

Ocean Sciences facilities

• Our excellent teaching facilities include geophysical labs and wave flumes, as well as advanced computer systems. 
• We are on the coast, next to the Irish Sea and the Menai Strait within the UNESCO Geopark GeoMon. We are also next to the classic glaciated environments of Snowdonia and so the perfect place to study geosciences with a wide range of environments for field courses and study sites for final-year projects. 
• We have a £3.5m ocean-going research ship as well as several smaller survey boats fully equipped with the latest ocean survey equipment.

General University Facilities

Library and Archive Services

Our four libraries provide a range of attractive study environments including collaborative work areas, meeting rooms and silent study spaces.

We have an extensive collection of books and journals and many of the journals are available online in full-text format.

We house one of the largest university-based archives not only in Wales, but also the UK. Allied to the Archives is the Special Collections of rare printed books.