Teaching

Our teaching portfolio is broad allowing students to tailor degrees incorporating majors or themes with optional units to keep a general focus in traditional areas or specialise in new, developing areas.

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY PEST MANAGEMENT

BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT MARINE BIOLOGY

ZOOLOGY ANIMAL NUTRITION

AQUACULTURE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

ECOLOGY

The School of Animal Biology teaches in two main types of degree programs. Both degrees aim to combine fundamentals in basic sciences with field and practical experience to develop an appreciation of basic science, and, how science can be applied to real world problems.

Three year degrees: the Bachelor of Science (B Sc) and related programs most importantly the B Sc (Marine Science), B Sc (Environmental Science), and, the B Sc (Neuroscience). Eligible students can also take a research intensive fourth year known as Honours. Teaching in these degrees relate to majors in Zoology, Marine Biology and Neuroscience. Our role in the core business of these majors is a focus on animals in all their manifestations: physiology, behaviour, ecology, systematics and evolution. Our graduates have gone on to careers in environmental assessment, research, teaching in many government agencies and in industry.

Zoology majors must take four core units in third year: Animal Ecology 301, Population Genetics & Evolution 302, Zöophysiology 303, Behavioural Ecology 304. There are also many optional units: Conservation Genetics, Wildlife Management, Aquaculture, Marsupial Biology to name a few.Marine Biology majors take Animal Ecology 301 and one of Marine Ecology 314 or Aquaculture 323 along with co-requisite units from the School of Plant Biology.

End-on Zoology Honours is available to those students obtaining 65% and above in appropriate core units.

Four year degrees principally in Animal Science, Agriculture and Natural Resource Management. Teaching in these programs is related to topics ranging from meat and wool production to conservation biology. The focus is generally more applied than in the three year programs, includes some structured background in economics, science and communication and attempts to produce a well rounded, broadly educated graduate who might fit into a variety of jobs ranging from agriculture to wildlife management. At third and fourth year level there are not set combinations of units as in majors above – you can be narrow or develop breadth.

There are several themes running through third and fourth year teaching: genetics and animal breeding, animal nutrition, integrated pest management, wildlife management, wool science. Fourth year students also conduct a compulsory research project in the area of their choice