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At Keele, studying a combined honours degree will include some modules from both of the single honours degrees. In this case, your programme will be made up of a combination of modules from both Biochemistry and Neuroscience.
Course Content
Keele’s Biochemistry programmes offer broad and stimulating coverage of modern biochemistry. You’ll be studying life at the molecular level, investigating the most exciting areas of contemporary life science and medical research. You might explore the secrets of the human genome, or the individually tailored molecular therapies of the future. Particular emphasis is placed on human and mammalian biochemistry, especially relating to health and disease. You can create a four year degree by doing a work and industrial placement between the second and third year.
This combined honours degree includes Neuroscience, where you will explore the mystery of the human brain: the central nervous system, the impact of drugs upon it, and the molecular biology of diseases and disorders of the brain.
Studying Neuroscience, you’ll discover how we learn and remember, how the brain controls the body, and how the brain can be targeted by disease but in some instances can repair itself. Within the course are interesting related disciplines such as neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology and neuropathology.
Combined honours Neuroscience combines the key principals of Neuroscience with the ability to choose specific areas of the subject that may interest you. Working in diverse ways, including in our superb labs, you’ll develop your independent research skills as you learn to acquire, interpret and analyse data from multiple sources. You’ll also understand how neuroscience can help us understand medical problems and improve the quality of life. The Biochemistry course scored 97% for student satisfaction in the National Student Survey in 2016.
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Year one modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Biochemistry
Core Practical Skills
Molecular Cell Biology
Introduction to Neuroscience
Physiology and Anatomy
Core Practical Skills
Year two modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Gene and Protein Engineering
Molecular, Cellular and Structural Immunology
Practical Skills in Bioscience
Metabolism in Health and Disease
Cell Signalling
Neuroscience Research Methods
Practical Skills in Bioscience
OPTIONAL MODULES
Neurone to Brain
Neurodevelopment
Research and Analytical Skills
Neuropharmacology
Learning & Memory
Year three modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Bioinformatics and Science Communication
OPTIONAL MODULES
Structural Biology & Macromolecular Function
Applied Life Sciences Placement - ISP
Advances in Medicine
Human Parasitology
Double Applied Life Sciences Placement - ISP
Case Studies in Biotechnology
Life Sciences Double Experimental Project (with research skills assessment)
Life Sciences Single Experimental Project (with research skills assessment) - ISP
Cancer Biology
Medical Glycobiology (Level 6)
Applied Life Sciences Placement - ISP
Behavioural Neuroscience
Brain Disease
Life Sciences Single Experimental Project (with research skills assessment) - ISP
Regeneration and Repair in the Nervous System
Current Research Topics in Neuroscience
Special Senses
96% of Keele graduates were in a job or further study within six months of graduating (DLHE, 2017)
Keele enjoys high rates of graduate employment, achieving 96% graduate employability in 2017 in the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey. When you graduate, the broad and detailed understanding of biochemistry you’ll have developed at Keele will open up a world of appealing career options. You could choose to work in a directly related field, perhaps as a clinical biochemist, medical bioscientist, forensic scientist, research scientist, toxicologist or science teacher. Or you might branch out a little further, and become a health and safety inspector, training standards officer, science writer or technical author. Graduating from Neuroscience will open up exciting careers in sectors as varied as healthcare, scientific research, pharmacology, IT, publishing and more. You might choose to work as a research scientist in academia or the drug industry, or work as a clinical neuroscientist in the hospital sector. With or without further study, you might go on to become a clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, doctor, pharmacologist or systems analyst. If you choose to do a four year course, with a year’s industrial placement, you’ll have the added benefit of significant work experience to offer to employers. Alternatively you might branch out and become a health and safety inspector, training standards officer, science writer or technical author. The applied nature of the programme will equip you with a range of transferable employability skills of relevance to careers in the Biosciences as well as in other graduate careers where numeracy and an objective scientific approach to problem solving are demanded.
Royal Society of Biology Accreditation is approved for this programme either as Combined Honours or for students specialising in either Biochemistry or Neuroscience in the final year. Accredited degree programmes contain a solid academic foundation in biological knowledge and key skills, and prepare graduates for a satisfying career.
Recent Employers
2030 Labs Ltd
Ashfield Healthcare Communications
Astro-Zeneca
Guy Hilton Laboratory
LGC
NHS
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Intertek
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Monarch
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
UHNM
Regardless of which career you pursue after Keele, employers will want evidence of the range of skills and personal qualities you possess and which are required for the job. Your degree is clearly important in this respect but don’t forget the extra-curricular activities, positions of responsibility, jobs and voluntary work you may have been engaged in while studying at Keele. These activities allow you to demonstrate the skills and personal qualities required by employers and will be vital in your attempts to secure graduate employment.
It is estimated that 60% of jobs are open to graduates of any discipline. This demonstrates the flexibility of many graduate employers when setting out their academic requirements and that students are not necessarily restricted to careers related to their degree.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
