Course units for visiting students
If you are an undergraduate student majoring in a biological or biomedical sciences subject at a university outside the UK, there are a range of course units you can study with us for your period abroad.
See the range of bioscience-focused course units available for visiting students to study.
BIOL10212 Biochemistry
BIOL10221 Molecular Biology
BIOL10232 From Molecules to Cells
BIOL10381 A History of Biology in 20 Objects
BIOL10412 Introduction to Experimental Biology - Molecular & Cellular Biology stream
BIOL10401 Introduction to Laboratory Science
BIOL10511 Biodiversity
BIOL10521 Genes, Evolution and Development
BIOL10532 Microbes, Man and the Environment
BIOL10811 Body Systems
BIOL10822 Drugs: From Molecules to Man
BIOL10832 Excitable Cells
HSTM10221 Science and the modern world (10 or 20 credits)
HSTM10272 Bodies in History: An Introduction to the History of Medicine (10 or 20 credits)
BIOL20982 The Biology of Being Human
BIOL21101 Genome Maintenance & Regulation
BIOL21111 Proteins
BIOL21121 The Dynamic Cell
BIOL21132 Cell Metabolism & Metabolic Control
BIOL21141 Cell Membrane Structure & Function
BIOL21451 How to make a brain
BIOL21152 ‘Omic Technologies & Resources
BIOL21172 Principles of Developmental Biology
BIOL21181 Prokaryotic Microbiology
BIOL21192 Principles of Infectious Disease
BIOL21202 Plants for the Future
BIOL21211 Ecology & Ecosystems
BIOL21221 Animal Diversity
BIOL21232 Fundamentals of Evolutionary Biology
BIOL21242 Immunology
BIOL21252 Parasitology
BIOL21261 Endocrinology
BIOL21272 Gut and Renal Human Physiology
BIOL21281 Animal Physiology
BIOL21291 Human Anatomy & Histology
BIOL21302 Clinical Drug Development
BIOL21312 Drugs & the Brain
BIOL21321 Membrane Excitability: Ion Channels & Transporters in Action
BIOL21332 Motor Systems
BIOL21341 Sensory Systems
BIOL21351 Molecules and Cells in Human Disease
BIOL21361 Haematology
BIOL21371 Organismal Genetics
BIOL21381 Introduction to Virology
BIOL21432 Animal Behaviour
BIOL21442 Disease in Nature
HSTM20031 From Cholera to Aids: A Global History of Epidemics (10 or 20 credits)
BIOL31301 Post-Genome Biology (L)
BIOL31311 Protein Assembly, Dynamics & Function (E)
BIOL31321 Glycobiology: Glycobiology in Health & Disease (E)
BIOL31332 Biochemical Basis of Disease (E)
BIOL31341 Macromolecular Recognition in Biological Systems (L)
BIOL31351 Current Topics in Microbiology (E)
BIOL31362 Bacterial Infections of Man (E)
BIOL31371 Advanced Immunology (E)
BIOL31381 Gene Regulation & Disease (E)
BIOL31391 Evolution of Genes, Genomes & Systems (E)
BIOL31402 Human Genetics & Evolution (E)
BIOL31411 Protein Sorting (L)
BIOL31441 Cell Signalling (E)
BIOL31451 Comparative Developmental Biol (L)
BIOL31461 Chemical Communication in Animals (L)
BIOL31471 Advanced Behavioural & Evolutionary Ecology (E)
BIOL31482 Conservation Biology (E)
BIOL31501 Green Biotechnology (E)
BIOL31511 Biotic Interactions (L)
BIOL31522 Bioethics: Contemporary Issues in Science & Biomedicine (E)
BIOL31541 Living with Climate Change (L)
BIOL31551 Human Impacts on the Biosphere (E)
BIOL31571 Advanced Endocrinology (L)
BIOL31582 Cardiovascular Systems (E)
BIOL31591 Advanced Ion Transport (E)
BIOL31602 Toxins, Toxicants & Toxicity (E)
BIOL31612 Neuroinflammation in Health & Disease (E)
BIOL31622 Ion Transport in Health & Disease (E)
BIOL31631 Imaging in Biomedical Research (E)
BIOL31642 Advanced Developmental Biology (E)
BIOL31651 Advances in Anatomical Sciences (L)
BIOL31671 Neuropharmacology of Human Health (E)
BIOL31681 Clocks, Sleep & the Rhythms of Life (E)
BIOL31692 Learning, Memory & Cognition (E)
BIOL31721 Hormones and Behaviour
BIOL31742 Molecular Biology of Cancer (E)
BIOL31751 Stem Cells (L)
BIOL31771 Cell Adhesion (L)
BIOL31792 Advanced Parasitology (E)
BIOL31802 Immune Response & Disease (E)
HSTM30832 Madness and Society
HSTM31212 The Nuclear Age: Hiroshima to Nuclear Terrorism
HSTM33201 Climate Change and Society