- UCAS course code
- B9R9
- UCAS institution code
- M20
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
BSc Biomedical Sciences with a Modern Language
Duration: 48 Months. [Full-Time]
Year of entry: 2025
UCAS course code: B9R9 / Institution code: M20
- Key features:
Study abroad
Study with a language
Accredited course
- Typical A-level offer: AAA-AAB including specific subjects
- Typical contextual A-level offer: AAB-ABB including specific subjects
- Refugee/care-experienced offer: ABB including specific subjects
- Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 36-35 points overall with 6, 6, 6 to 6, 6, 5 at HL, including specific requirements
Fees and funding
Fees
Tuition fees for home students commencing their studies in September 2025 will be £9,535 per annum (subject to Parliamentary approval). Tuition fees for international students will be £34,500 per annum. For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.
Additional expenses
Policy on additional costs
All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).
Scholarships/sponsorships
Course unit details:
Biochemistry RSM
| Unit code | BIOL20312 |
|---|---|
| Credit rating | 10 |
| Unit level | Level 2 |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
| Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
Pre/co-requisites
Aims
Learning outcomes
The students will have learned to:
• Purify an enzyme from cell extracts by different procedures
• Determine the protein concentration of a solution
• Determine the specific activity of an enzyme
• Analyse the purity of a protein preparation by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and western blotting
• Carry out a kinetic analysis on a purified enzyme
• Use different mass spectrometry techniques to identify a purified protein
• Present and critically analyse research data
Syllabus
Students will learn the following techniques:
• Use of spectrophotometers
• Protein concentration assays
• Protein purification
• Affinity chromatography
• Enzyme assays
• Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
• Western blotting
• Mass spectrometry
• Report writing in the style of a research paper
Data will be produced during the course of the RSM that will be recorded and analysed.
Employability skills
- Analytical skills
- Use of spectrophotometers, Protein concentration assays, Affinity chromatography, Enzyme assays, Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, Western blotting, Mass spectrometry.
- Group/team working
- Students work together in groups of 2-3 to carry out their experiments.
- Leadership
- One group member usually takes the lead in organising the group to carry out experiments.
- Project management
- Students must decide on particular experiments to try and then organise themselves to carry out the experiments in the allotted time.
- Oral communication
- Students are asked questions during the practical. Students must also communicate the results of their experiments to the Academic Staff.
- Problem solving
- If experiments go wrong students must use problem solving to figure out where they went wrong.
- Research
- This is a practical course so it is 100% research.
- Written communication
- Students are required to keep notes on their experiments. Students must also write up their results in the style of a research paper.
Assessment methods
| Method | Weight |
|---|---|
| Other | 50% |
| Report | 50% |
Four Written Assignments 12.5% each
Written Lab Report 50%
Assessment will comprise of:
Written assignments (12.5% each): these assignments will include a literature search and different data analysis.
One assignment will be due each week of the four weeks of the RSM.
Written Lab Report (50%): an experimental write-up (50%) containing an Abstract, Results, Discussion and References of 5 pages in length (excluding references, tables, figures, graphs) to present and analyse the data obtained during the practical.
RSM Attendance guidelines. Students are expected to attend all scheduled RSM sessions on time (N.B. Health and safety information will be delivered at the start of practical sessions, and students who are not present at the start may be asked to leave the lab). Students who arrive late will be marked as absent for that session. Failure to attend a session (an unauthorised absence) will result in a 10% (i.e. 10 mark) penalty being applied to the overall RSM mark (i.e. a student obtaining a mark of 65% overall will instead receive a mark of 55%). Further absences will result in further penalties (i.e. 2 absences = a penalty of 20% as described above).
Feedback methods
Recommended reading
Study hours
| Scheduled activity hours | |
|---|---|
| Practical classes & workshops | 72 |
| Independent study hours | |
|---|---|
| Independent study | 28 |
Teaching staff
| Staff member | Role |
|---|---|
| Raymond O'Keefe | Unit coordinator |