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UCAS Y000

Arts and Sciences BASc 3 years

The three-year programme of core courses, major and minor pathway and internship.

UCAS Y001

Arts and Sciences with Study Abroad BASc 4 years

The three-year programme plus an additional year abroad.

FAQ

Health and Environment

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How our bodies work and the effect of the world on us

In each year, an Arts and Sciences students chooses 3 modules in their major and 1 in their minor. In year 1 students have a free choice of three modules in their major from the list offered, though some modules in year 1 may have certain A level requirements. Students have a free choice of one module in their minor, subject to timetabling constraints and A level requirements. Students choose major and minor modules in the first week of the course as part of the induction process.


Year 1

The 12 modules listed below are designated as best encapsulating the conception of the Health and Environment Pathway and are chosen to allow progression to the most number of higher level courses. Whilst every effort has been made to timetable these modules so that there are no clashes between any of them, we cannot guarantee that every combination is 100% clash-free.

Please note: module availability and content may be subject to change. 

code title units prerequisite taught
ANAT1003 Introduction to Anatomy and Developmental Biology 0.5   Term 1
ANTH1014A Biological Anthropology 0.5   Term 1
ANTH1014B Biological Anthropology 0.5   Term 2
BIOC1008 General Biochemistry 0.5   Term 1
BIOL1005 Introduction to Genetics 0.5    
BIOL1006 Life on Earth 0.5   Term 1
GEOG1004 Human Ecology 0.5   Term 1
GEOL1003 History of Life 0.5   Term 2
GEOL1012
Surface Processes 0.5
  Term 2
GEOL2008 Vertebrate Palaeontology & Evolution 0.5
  Term 1
HPSC1004 Introduction to Science Policy Studies 0.5   Term 2
PHAR1001 An Introduction to the Mechanisms of Drug Action 0.5   Term 1
PSYC6002 Introduction to Psychology
0.5    
STAT6101 Introductory Statistical Methods and Computing
0.5   Term 1 or Term 2

Years 2 and 3

Arts and Sciences is designed to offer you the maximum choice of modules at UCL and to encourage interdisciplinarity. To achieve this, in years 2 and 3 you will be offered a free choice of modules available at UCL across the entire university, so long as the choice is consistent with the Pathway objectives, and subject to the following important constraints:

  1. The student meets the prerequisites for a module. E.g. you could not do year 2 modules in Pharmacology without PHAR1001. Please note that although we aim to prepare you for a very wide range of choices in each department, there may be some modules at 2nd and 3rd year level which are not available due to prerequisites.
  2. The modules chosen fit in with the other modules on the student's timetable.
  3. The Programme Director (in consultation with the Pathway Representatives) approves the choice of modules. This is to ensure that the student works towards a coherent selection of modules which complement each other and which allow for the best academic progression of the student.
code title units prerequisite taught
ANAT2010 Introduction to Neuroanatomy 0.5 ANAT1003 Term 2
ANAT2050/1/2 Intermediate Anatomy 1.0/0.5 ANAT1003 Terms 1 & 2
ANTH2*** A range of Anthropology options are available subject to approval be the Dept.      
ANTH7*** A range of Anthropology options are available subject to approval be the Dept.      
ANTH7008 Man and Animals 0.5   Term 1
ARCL2026 The Emergence and Spread of Modern Humans 0.5
 
BIOC2001 Molecular Biology 1 BIOC1008, Prerequisite for BIOC3024 Terms 1 & 2
BIOC2002 General Biochemistry 0.5/1 BIOC1008 Terms 1 & 2
BIOC2005 Metabolism and Its Regulation 0.5
BIOC1008, Prerequisites for BIOC3007/8  
BIOL2002 Field Course in Environmental Biology 0.5 BIOL1006  
BIOL2006 Introduction to Human Genetics 0.5 BIOL1005 Term 1
BIOL2007 Evolutionary and Population Genetics 0.5 BIOL1005  
BIOL2012 Fundamentals of Ecology 0.5 BIOL1006  
GEOG2009 Environment and Society 0.5
GEOG1004
Term 2
GEOG2014 Development Geography 0.5
GEOG1004 Term 2
GEOG2019
Political Geography and Geopolitics 0.5
GEOG1004 Term 1
GEOG2023 Urban Geography 0.5
GEOG1004 Term 2
GEOG2024
Cultural and Historical Geography 0.5
GEOG1004 Term 1
HPSC2001 Policy Issues in the Life Sciences 0.5 HSPC1004 Term 2
HPSC2017A/B Action for Global Citizenship 0.5   Term 1 or Term 2
HSPC2002 Science in the mass media 0.5   Term 2
HSPC2020 Philosophy of Medicine 0.5   Term 1
IMMN2001 Immunology 0.5 BIOC1008
 
INFN2002
Infection 0.5 BIOC1008  
PSYC1202 Social Psychology 0.5 PSYC6002  
PSYC1203 The Psychology of Individual Differences 0.5 PSYC6002  
PSYC2206 Health and Clinical Psychology 0.5 PSYC6002 Term 1

Year 3

code title units prerequisite taught
ANAT3028 Neurogenerative Disease 0.5   Term 1
ANAT3038 Advanced Anatomy 0.5 ANAT2050 or MBBS Yrs 1 and 2 Term 2
ANTH3*** A range of Anthropology options are available subject to approval by the Dept.      
ANTH7*** A range of Anthropology options are available subject to approval by the Dept.      
BIOC3007 The Molecular Basis of Cell Regulation 0.5 BIOC1007 or BIOC2005
Term 1
BIOC3008 Cell Regulation in Biotechnology, Health and Disease
0.5 BIOC1007 or BIOC2005  
BIOC3016 Genes to Disease 0.5   Term 1
BIOC3024 Molecular Mechanisms of Gene Expression and Regulation 0.5 BIOC2001
 
BIOL3002 Plants, Environment and Climate Change 0.5    
BIOL3008 Species Conservation and Biodiversity 0.5 BIOL1005 and BIOL2012 are recommended
 
BIOL3010 Molecular Evolution 0.5 BIOL1005 and BIOL1002 or equivalents  
BIOL3011 Biochemistry of Health and Disease 0.5 BIOL3013  
BIOL3012 Sex, Genes and Evolution
0.5    
BIOL3013 Advanced Human Genetics 0.5 BIOL2006  
BIOL3017 Biology of Aging 0.5    
BIOL3018 Vertebrate Life and Evolution 0.5 BIOL2009 is recommended but not required
 
GEOL3011
Geosciences Report 0.5
  Term 1 or Term 2
GEOL3036
Biodiversity & Macro Evolutionary Patterns 1.0
GEOL1003. GEOL2008 is highly desirable
Terms 1 & 2
HPSC3028 Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Medicine 0.5   Term 2
INIM3007
Viruses and Disease 0.5   Term 2
INIM3008
Microbial Pathogenesis 0.5 INFN2001 and INIM3003 Term 2
INIM3003
Infectious Agents 0.5 INFN2001 Term 1
INIMG012 HIV Frontiers from research to clinic 0.5    
LAWS3016 Medicine, Ethics and the Law 1.0   Terms 1 & 2
PSYC3109 The Psychology of Health Risks 0.5   Term 1
PSYC3307 Genes and Behaviour 0.5   Term 1