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Useful Information re: 4 th Year Subject Choices

Useful Information re: 4 th Year Subject Choices. Deadline for selecting your 4 th year subject choice: Friday 17 th February 2012. 4 th year Zoology structure (including ECTS info) Range of Zoology 4 th year project areas and supervisors Career possibilities in Zoology and related areas

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Useful Information re: 4 th Year Subject Choices

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  1. Useful Information re:4th Year Subject Choices Deadline for selecting your 4th year subject choice: Friday 17th February 2012. • 4th year Zoology structure (including ECTS info) • Range of Zoology 4th year project areas and supervisors • Career possibilities in Zoology and related areas • Postgraduate Options: MSc and PhD

  2. Zoology 4th year: Structure • Project – 30% 18 ECTS • Literature review – 20% 12 ECTS • Integrative Zoology – 10% 6 ECTS • Exam ZO408 – 20% 12 ECTS (first half of main Zoology lecture course) • Exam ZO409 – 20% 12 ECTS (second half of Zoology lecture course) • Total – 100% Total ECTS - 60

  3. Project areas and supervisors • Dr. Louise Allcock • Morphological and molecular systematics of Cephalopoda • Dr. Louise Firth • Marine community ecology • Dr. Uri Frank • Stem cells and developmental biology • Dr. Bob Kennedy • Ecology of marine invertebrates and ecological assessment in marine sediments • Dr. Colin Lawton • Populationecology of Irish mammals and their status in ecosystems • Dr. Grace McCormack • Evolutionary biology – range of projects at microevolutionary or macroevolutionary scales focusing on marine sponges. • Dr. Anne Marie Power • The biology of marine invertebrate populations and population interactions • Dr. Gerhard Schlosser • Development of the nervous system in amphibians

  4. Career possibilities: examples • Ecological/environmental careers: these can be based in a government agency (e.g. Marine Institute) or in a company (ecological consultancy) • Molecular/cellular careers: these can be based either in government laboratories or in companies (e.g. biotechnological ones) • Teaching (at various levels) • NOTE: Many of the above will require further (postgraduate) qualifications

  5. Postgraduate options • The main two options are a 1-year MSc and a 3/4-year PhD • For applied aspects of Zoology (ranging from ecological to molecular): MSc is best option • For fundamental Zoology, and for an academic career in Zoology: PhD is best option

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