Advanced Qualifications

Modular Short Courses

Course Description

Our Sustainable Aquaculture Postgraduate modules are each available as shorter 12 week courses. These allow students to focus their studies on specific areas of interest or to study for a Postgraduate qualification in a more manageable way. The modules on offer provide students with credits towards a full Postgraduate qualification. Each module is worth either 10 or 20 credits.

Modules

Aquaculture and fisheries – 10 credits
Biology for aquaculture – 20 credits
Biology for aquaculture – invertebrates – 10 credits
Biology for aquaculture – vertebrates – 10 credits
Nutrition for aquaculture – 20 credits
Nutrition – invertebrates – 10 credits
Nutrition – vertebrates – 10 credits
Management, husbandry and sustainability – 10 credits
Health and disease – 20 credits
Health and disease – invertebrates – 10 credits
Health and disease – vertebrates – 10 credits
Markets, products, processing and food safety – 10 credits
Local and global impacts of aquaculture – 10 credits
Breeding and genetics – 10 credits
Welfare and ethics – 10 credits
Recirculation aquaculture systems – 10 credits
Ornamental and aquaria production – 10 credits
Larval rearing – 10 credits

Entry Requirements

Students must hold an upper second class honours degree in Biological Science or other relevant discipline from a UK university or its foreign equivalent. Overseas students whose first language is not English must provide evidence of competence in written and spoken English. In line with the University’s drive to widen access, additional evidence of relevant professional experiential learning (RPEL) may be taken into account for entry.

Postgraduate Certificate

Course Description

The award of this qualification (PG Cert) requires 60 credits gained from taught modules over a one year period, each module is worth 10 credits. There are two courses available, one focusing on vertebrate species and the other on invertebrate species.

This qualification has the following modules:

Entry Requirements

Students must hold an upper second class honours degree in Biological Science or other relevant discipline from a UK university or its foreign equivalent. Entry will also be offered following successful completion of the Undergraduate Certificate in Sustainable Aquaculture in conjunction with additional evidence of relevant professional experiential learning. Overseas students whose first language is not English must provide evidence of competence in written and spoken English.

Postgraduate Diploma

Course Description

The award of a Postgraduate Diploma (PG Dip) qualification requires 120 credits gained from taught modules over an 18 month period consisting of a series of compulsory core modules and a choice of optional modules matched to students’ specific interests.

Masters/MSc

Masters/MSc Details

The award of a Masters/MSc requires the student to complete the 18 month PG Dip qualification as described above.  Over the following 6 months, the student then completes a 15,000-word dissertation. The dissertation involves the study of a defined problem within the field of sustainable aquaculture. Students are required to collate and analyse data and to discuss their results in the light of existing literature.

Students are normally admitted to the MSc programme after they have completed the Postgraduate Diploma. This programme takes 2 years of part-time study in total.

Entry Requirements

Students must hold an upper second class honours degree in Biological Science or other relevant discipline from a UK university or its foreign equivalent. Entry will also be offered following successful completion of the Undergraduate Certificate in Sustainable Aquaculture in conjunction with additional evidence of relevant professional experiential learning. Overseas students whose first language is not English must provide evidence of competence in written and spoken English.