What will I study on the Marine Biology degree at Stirling?
Stirling’s “new” Marine Biology degree has been updated and revitalised and will start in September 2009. Your interest in the marine environment may have been developed by watching fascinating television programmes or simply rock-pooling on holiday. In the first year we will build on whatever knowledge you have with a fascinating look at Our Blue Planet. Cell biology, Laboratory and Field skills, Animal Physiology and Environmental Management will also form the core first year subjects, through a mixture of lectures, practical and fieldwork. In the second year Principles of Aquatic environments will expore the nature of freshwater and marine systems, their biology, physics and chemistry. This will be accompanied by courses in Statistics, Ecology, and Genes and Evolution. Diving Science is a brand new module being introduced in 2010 and there is an option to learn how to dive over the summer at the end of the second year, through an arrangement with a diving company who will offer Stir
