Bachelor’s Degree in:

FACULTY OF BIOLOGYEdificio de Ciencias

Biology

This Degree complies with European Higher Education Area requirements

Type of Degree

This is an officially recognised University Degree, valid throughout the European Higher Education Area.

Overall credit distribution

SUBJECT TYPE ECTS

Basic Training (B) 60

Obligatory (Ob) 96

Optional (Opt) 72

Bachelor’s Degree Final Project (Ob) 12

TOTAL CREDITS 240

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Student profileStudents who elect to study the Degree in Biology should have an interest in studying and understanding living beings (animals, plants and microorganisms), including their biological functions, their development and their natural distribution. In addition, students will learn about the interactions which occur in nature between different life forms, their abiotic environment and current environ-mental problems, etc. Students should have the capacity for attention, observation, perception, logical reasoning, analysis and synthesis, together with visual and auditory memory, spatial skills, sensitivity, creativity and methodo-logical rigour.

Career opportunitiesGraduates in Biology are equipped for professional prac-tice in the following areas, among others: research and development in the life sciences, health care, the phar-maceutical, agro-food and biotechnology industries, envi-ronmental studies, breeding, cultivating and using animal, plant and microbial species, land-use and environmental planning, conservation and management, information and documentation management in museums, zoological ins-titutions, botanical gardens, scientific foundations and the press, academic activity in a variety of different settings and commerce and marketing of products and services related to Biology.

Course contentsBiology graduates will be capable of using basic and applied general and specialist knowledge from the various discipli-nes within Biology. Furthermore, they will be capable of applying state-of-the-art study and analytical methods and techniques in Biology.

Consequently, Biology graduates are equipped to design and participate in research projects in any of the Biology disciplines: Botany, Zoology, Ecology, Plant Physiology, Animal Physiology, Cellular Biology, Microbiology, Gene-tics, Biochemistry, etc., or to participate in multidiscipli-nary projects which require the knowledge and experience of a biologist. This Degree is aimed at equipping future bio-logists to apply the fundamental concepts of the scientific method to basic and applied research. Similarly, gradua-tes should be able to identify the various plant, animal and microorganism species in existence and in fossil regis-ters. Biology graduates will develop a genuine vocation for understanding individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems, and will be capable of resolving problems affecting the environment.

CAMPUS UNIVERSITARIO

Ctra. Madrid-Barcelona, km 33,60028871 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)

www.uah.es/biologia

INFORMATION CENTRE

www.uah.esciu@uah.es

STUDY PLAN

OPTIONAL SUBJECTS:FIRST YEAR

First semester Type ECTS Second semester Type ECTS

Biology (Methods in Biodiversity and Conser-vation)

B 6 Biology (Methods in Cellular Biology and Physiology)

B 6

Mathematics B 6 Physics B 6

Chemistry B 6 Geology B 6

Botany (both semesters) Ob 6 Botany (both semesters) Ob 6

Zoology (both semesters) Ob 6 Zoology (both semesters) Ob 6

Total ECTS 30 Total ECTS 30

SECOND YEAR

First semester Type ECTS Second semester Type ECTS

Statistics B 6 Biology (Methods in Molecular Biology) B 6

Biochemistry (both semesters) B 6 Biochemistry (both semesters) B 6

Cellular Biology and Histology (both semes-ters)

Ob 6 Cellular Biology and Histology (both semes-ters)

Ob 6

Genetics (both semesters) Ob 6 Genetics (both semesters) Ob 6

Ecology (both semesters) Ob 6 Ecology (both semesters) Ob 6

Total ECTS 30 Total ECTS 30

THIRD YEAR

First semester Type ECTS Second semester Type ECTS

Microbiology (both semesters) Ob 6 Microbiology (both semesters) Ob 6

Physiology (both semesters) Ob 6 Physiology (both semesters) Ob 6

Plant Physiology (both semesters) Ob 6 Plant Physiology (both semesters) Ob 6

Optional 1 Opt 6 Optional 3 Opt 6

Optional 2 Opt 6 Cross-Disciplinary Skills 1 Opt 6

Total ECTS 30 Total ECTS 30

FOURTH YEAR

First semester Type ECTS Second semester Type ECTS

Optional 4 Opt 6 External Practical Training * (recommended) Opt 18

Optional 5 Opt 6 Bachelor’s Degree Final Project Ob 12

Optional 6 Opt 6

Optional 7 Opt 6

Cross-Disciplinary Skills 2 Opt 6

Total ECTS 30 Total ECTS 30

TOTAL ECTS CREDITS: 240

* Students who do not elect external practical training will be required to study 3 optional subjects worth 6 ECTS each.

B: Basic Training; Ob: obligatory; Opt: Optional

A) Evolution and BiodiversityB) Biology of ConservationC) Molecular Biology

Evolution and Biodiversity Module ECTS

Anthropology 6

Animal Microscopic Organography 6

Animal Embryology 6

Physiological Adaptations to the Environment 6

Parasitology 6

Palaeontology 6

Evolutionary Biology 6

Biology of Conservation Module ECTS

Geobotany 6

Forest and Applied Mycology 6

Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration 6

Applied Ecology and Climate Change 6

Environmental Physiology of Plants 6

Environmental Microbiology 6

Field Zoology 6

Molecular Biology Module ECTS

Molecular Biology 6

Metabolic Regulation 6

Physiology of Regulatory Systems 6

Molecular Physiology of Plants 6

Evolutionary Genetics 6

Molecular Genetics 6

Microbial Biotechnology 6

Immunology 6