Students attend one-week field courses in Geology during the Easter and Summer vacations. Students attend bi-weekly tutorial classes in both Biological Sciences and Geology, and during the Autumn and Spring terms complete a workbook on Computing for Biologists as part of BIOL 11000 and BIOL 12000. 20 Plus six units from the following list including one or two GEOL units. 10 Three units are taken in each timetable period. Students attend a field course in Geology on sedimentology and palaeontology during the Easter vacation and a field course or laboratory workshop in Biological Sciences chosen from a wide variety of topics during either the Easter or Summer vacation, and undertake an independent field project in palaeontology during the Summer vacation.
Students take part in the Palaeontology seminar programme.