Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Marine Biology

at Newcastle University United Kingdom

Course overview
Build strong transferable skills and prepare for a career as a solicitor, barrister, or another profession with the Newcastle Law School LLB.

You'll study in a Law School that is globally engaged, yet rooted in its local community. This helps build knowledge and understanding, as well as empathy and cross-cultural awareness.

You can convert our standard three-year Law LLB Honours degree to a four-year LLB Honours degree with either a placement or international exchange year. The degree focuses on building the foundations of legal knowledge, as well as analysis and skills essential for a successful future career.

Studying the Newcastle LLB you'll learn about the law and develop practical legal skills such as:

• Case analysis
• Legal drafting and writing
• Legal research
• Client negotiation
• Client interviewing
• Mediation

You'll also:

• gain direct experience in the community or in the industry through our pro bono schemes and work placement opportunities
• have the opportunity to broaden your cultural and legal frame of reference by applying to study at one of our prestigious international law faculties across Asia, Europe, Oceania and North America

Chemistry touches every part of our lives. From food and medicine to biotechnology and renewable energy, its influence is endless. As a Chemist, you can have a great career and make a difference in the world.

Medicinal Chemistry is the discovery, design and synthesis of new clinical drugs. This exciting degree allows you to broaden your interests as you discover the subject.

You'll explore the role of chemistry in:

• Drug design
• Cancer chemotherapy
• Enzymology
• Toxicology

You'll study organic, inorganic, physical and structural chemistry. You'll investigate modern analytical techniques and computational chemistry. You can create your own distinct learning experience at Newcastle. You'll explore your interests as you discover the subject.

In Stage 3, you'll take your year in industry. Gaining work experience is invaluable for your future career.

This Economics and Finance BSc Honours degree focuses on developing your understanding of modern economics and key finance topics. You'll gain the skills that are critical to succeed in the finance and economics sectors.

Studying a combination of topics across economics and finance, you'll possess in-depth knowledge in areas such as:

• Corporate finance
• International financial management
• Financial economics
• Economic modelling
• Micro and macroeconomic theory

You'll graduate from Newcastle University as a confident economics and finance expert with an appreciation of how the finance sector and the economy interact, ready to take on challenging roles in these sectors.

This course will allow you to develop broad-ranging engineering knowledge. You'll gain the specific skills you need to turn designs for buildings and bridges into reality, or design innovative and sustainable solutions to global challenges.

From day one, the course has a practical focus, and you'll have the opportunity to take part in site visits and placements. You'll also carry out hands-on work in our specialist labs and facilities.

Emerging as a well-rounded engineer with an in-depth understanding of the key civil engineering disciplines. You'll focus on the design of structures with topics such as an introduction to architecture, sustainable engineering systems, and construction management.

Our BSc Geography degree explores the natural environment and the key challenges we face in moving towards a more sustainable world.

This flexible degree is informed by the research of our world-leading academics and spans the breadth of the discipline. You don’t need to decide between human and physical geography and can tailor your degree to your interests. This enables you to become a specialist in your chosen field, or remain active across the Geographic terrain.

You can select from dozens of Geography modules. These range from Glacial Environments, and River Catchment Dynamics, to Geographies of Sustainable Production and Consumption, and Global Environmental Change.

Our International Marine Environmental Consultancy course meets the growing demand for marine consultants and coastal managers in UK, European and international business.

The International Marine Environmental Consultancy (IMEC) course brings together core ecological skills and the business elements required to compete in this growing sector.

Our expert academic staff maintain an extensive network of industry contacts.

You'll complete a four-month consultancy project. This provides opportunities for developing a proposal to collaborate with a world-leading marine consultancy.

This interdisciplinary course attracts a wide range of honours graduates. Your background skills may come from:

• Geography
• The law
• Politics
• Marine biology
• The environmental sciences

You should have an interest in the marine environment and its management. You'll also need a professional, committed attitude which is essential.

This course forms the basis of the taught components of the Marine Science suite of postgraduate qualifications, such as our Marine Ecosystems and Governance MRes.

These courses share the same modules in the first semester. This helps create a supportive, collaborative, student cohort that often works together on interdisciplinary projects.

This course covers all major disciplines in automation and control. It provides advanced education for both practising professionals and new graduates. You'll learn practical skills including:

• A focus on fundamentals in automation
• Control and practical application in industry

Core learning includes:

• Linear controller design and state space with Matlab applications
• Industrial automation, PLCs and robotics
• Distributed control systems
• Digital control systems
• Application of engineering and computing expertise to investigate complex problems

You'll learn crucial innovative techniques, including practical design skills and research methodologies.

The flexible nature of this programme allows you to specialise in one of two streams:

• Control Systems
• Mechatronics

Control Systems Stream

You'll gain a thorough understanding of key areas, including:

• AC and DC electric drives systems
• Analyse and design control systems for a wide range of electric drive applications
• Construct and critically test drive simulation studies in the area of control of electric drives
• Gain insight and advanced understanding of modern controller design, emerging intelligent control methods, and mitigation techniques for problems associated in real-life design

Mechatronics Stream

Focusing on the systems and design aspects of mechatronics you'll:

• Gain knowledge and understanding of the operating characteristics and design of a range of sensors and motors. This includes their integration into appropriate control systems within a specific mechanical design
• Understand key mechatronic concepts and their specific applications to the robust design of mobile robotic systems. This will provide you with skills to design, develop and operate a functional mobile robot mechatronic system

Our course provides theories and methods in teaching English as a second language. It also develops your research skills, enhancing your professional performance in the future.

Our Applied Linguistics and TESOL MA will improve or update your knowledge and understanding of teaching English as a foreign or second language.

It has a strong emphasis on:

• Language learning
• Interaction in second language classrooms and wider settings
• Teacher development
• Engagement in learning and with technology

The course is available to:

• Those with teaching experience (in-service)
• Those without teaching experience (pre-service)
• Lecturers at higher education institutions

You'll be taught by expert staff with experience of teaching English around the world. Our range of optional modules allow you to build your own course matching your individual interests

This Business Management degree will equip you with a firm understanding of the interconnectivity of different business functions and management theories, leaving you ready to challenge conventional business and management thinking.

With a strong emphasis on practical, real-world business experience, you'll have the opportunity to enhance your career prospects and develop your global skills, connections, and credentials for your dream job.

Studying management topics such as business strategy, digital business, organisational behaviour, marketing, and innovation management, you'll emerge as a highly employable graduate, ready to take on the changing world of business with a global outlook and a culturally intelligent approach to leadership.

This degree incorporates a year in planning practice, equipping you with valuable work experience and putting you on the path to Chartered Town Planner status.

Newcastle provides the ultimate case study for planning students. The rise and decline of industry and the recent cultural renaissance have turned the city into a 'living laboratory' for exploration and study.

You'll study the same programme as our Urban Planning BA Honours degree for your first three years, developing a thorough grounding in planning processes, city design, conservation, housing policy and more.

In your final year, you'll be able to decide whether to specialise in either planning and regeneration, or environmental planning.

You'll study fascinating topics such as design awareness, environmental sustainability and housing policy, and participate in a range of field trips and projects to see planning in action.