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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2007/2008
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Life Sciences (MSc/Diploma by Research)
Degree Type: Postgraduate Structured Research Masters/Diploma
All courses are taken in 1st year of one year programme
POS Code: M0011
NYT Course S L CT
1 EITHER
Two courses from the list of core courses R 11 80
PLUS      
Research Proposal R 11 20
Dissertation R 11 80
OR (Wellcome Trust students only)      
Three courses from the list of core courses R 11 120
PLUS      
Summer project R 11 60
OR (Diploma students only)      
Two courses from the list of core courses R 11 80
PLUS      
Diploma dissertation (Diploma only) R 11 40
CORE COURSE OPTIONS:
Biomedical Imaging R 11 40
Cancer biology R 11 40
Cancer: Medicinal Chemistry R 11 40
Cardiovascular Biology R 11 40
Chemical biology R 11 40
Developmental cell biology R 11 40
Genetics & disease R 11 40
Genomics & Pathway Biology I R 11 40
Genomics & Pathway Biology II R 11 40
Human genetics & model systems I R 11 40
Human genetics & model systems II R 11 40
Immunology & infection (Wellcome Trust students only) R 11 40
Infectious Diseases 1 R 11 40
Infectious Diseases 2 R 11 40
Inflammation & Inflammatory Disease R 11 40
Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer R 11 40
Molecular Medicine R 11 40
Neuroscience R 11 40
Reproductive mechanisms R 11 40
Reproductive systems R 11 40
Structural biology R 11 40
RECOMMENDED COURSES:
Effective Presentations R 11 0
Project Planning and ethics in Scientific Research R 11 0
Writing up science R 11 0
Life Sciences Programme Handbook contains full details of all these courses. This indicates restrictions on choice of courses and will be available for students entering the programme to facilitate advance planning.
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