Extend your knowledge in your specialist area at postgraduate level with our honours programme. The Bachelor of Science (Honours) programme involves one year of full-time study, or two years of part-time study, after you have completed the requirements for the Bachelor of Science. After graduating with a BSc(Hons), it’s possible to progress to a Master of Science (MSc) degree. If you achieve First or Second Class First Division Honours in your BSc(Hons), you’ll be eligible for direct entry to a PhD. Postgraduate study in Biological Sciences focuses on research. Due to the School’s strong links with industry, there may be opportunity to collaborate on research projects with other faculties, or companies such as AgResearch, the Department of Conservation and the Crown Research Institutes. You may study a wide range of disciplines from biomedical, microbial and plant biotechnology to environmental, ecological and conservation science. Areas of research interests open to exploration include: Biomedical and Applied Biology Metabolism and Physiology, Applied Biochemistry, Genetics and Metagenomics, Cell Biology, Immunology, Stem Cell Biology, Neuroscience Cellular, Molecular and Organismal Biology Biochemistry, Plant Molecular Science, Microbiology, Genetics, Structural Biology, Mass Spectrometry Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour Ecology and Evolution, Behaviour, Conservation and Biosecurity, Ecophysiology, Systematics and Biodiversity Bachelor of Science (Honours) (BSc(Hons)) in Biological Sciences 15 points: BIOSCI 762 BSc(Hons) Dissertation Proposal 45 points from: BIOSCI 788 BSc(Hons) Dissertation in Biological Sciences 60 points from: BIOINF 701 Bioinformatics BIOSCI 724 Marine Ecology BIOSCI 725 Ecological Physiology BIOSCI 727 Aquaculture BIOSCI 728 Neuroethology BIOSCI 729 Evolutionary Biology BIOSCI 730 Entomology and Biosecurity BIOSCI 731 Biogeography BIOSCI 733 Molecular Ecology and Evolution BIOSCI 734 Terrestrial Plant Ecology BIOSCI 735 Advanced Behavioural Ecology BIOSCI 736 Microbial Genomics and Metabolism BIOSCI 737 High Resolution Imaging of Biological Molecules BIOSCI 738 Advanced Biological Data Analysis BIOSCI 739 Dialogues in Biology BIOSCI 741 Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology BIOSCI 746 The Molecular Machinery of The Cell BIOSCI 749 Ecology of Microbial Interactions BIOSCI 751 Plant-microbial Interactions BIOSCI 752 Plant Genomics and Biotechnology BIOSCI 753 Synthesis of Plant Products and Foods BIOSCI 754 Plant Genomes and Gene Expression BIOSCI 755 Genomics and Gene Expression BIOSCI 756 Proteomics BIOSCI 757 Structural Biology BIOSCI 758 Development, Differentiation and Disease BIOSCI 759 Molecular Cell Biology and Biomedicine BIOSCI 761 MSc Thesis Proposal 45 points from: BIOINF 701 Bioinformatics and, BIOSCI 724–759 (as above) 15 points from 700 courses in related subjects: Bioengineering, Biosecurity and Conservation and Marine Science