BSc (Hons) Natural Sciences with a Placement Year

The Natural Sciences programme is ideal if you wish to combine study in more than one area of science whilst retaining a larger degree of flexibility than joint degrees allow. This particular degree programme also allows you to spend your third year on an industrial placement, giving you invaluable work experience and putting you one step ahead of other students. During your studies you will engage with modules from a minimum of two key disciplines, with the opportunity to study specialist topics as your degree programme develops. Furthermore the theory and knowledge gained in the first two years of study can be applied practically in the workplace during your year in industry.By studying Natural Sciences you will be able to appreciate complex concepts from across contemporary science. An example of this could be examining what causes a tsunami, including how scientists use mathematics to predict how the wave travels and to understand the economics of how it impacts on vulnerable people. You will experience what is required of a competent scientist; from the deliberation needed to design an experiment, including consideration of the results, to the excitement of discovering something new.