Biology
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06.03.01 In English and Russian
Level of education Bachelor
Type of instruction Full-time
Duration 4 years
With the additional qualification ‘Biology Teacher’
Programme description
The bachelor’s programme ‘Biology’ (with the additional qualification ‘Biology Teacher’) offers fundamental and practical training in biology with a specific focus and practical skills in a particular field. The foundation for biological concepts is laid by the biodiversity disciplines and summer field practice at the premises of St Petersburg University.
Fundamental training is also underpinned by a number of courses on the mechanisms to maintain the functions of the living systems at different levels. The unique courses developed by the staff focus on rapidly developing areas of biology such as genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics. Of principal importance in students’ training is that the programme introduces them to advanced methodological facilities on the state-of-the-art equipment at the St Petersburg University Research Park. To carry out research at the highest level, St Petersburg University provides students with unique opportunities: the Research Park and field stations (from the Polar Regions to Subtropics); copious information resources; and communication with top Russian researchers.
Upon completion of the programme, graduates are awarded the additional qualification ‘Biology Teacher’.
Main courses
- Algology and Mycology
- Cellular Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Biochemistry
- Botany
- Virology
- Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
- Histology
- Invertebrate Zoology
- Vertebrate zoology
- Immunology
- Microbiology
- Molecular Biology
- General Genetics
- Theory of Evolution
Our advantages
The programme is aimed at training bachelors to acquire both basic fundamental knowledge and key competencies in one of the major problem areas of biology and skills in the practical application of modern methodological approaches. The received bachelor’s degree instils important transferable skills that will serve gradates well, whatever their subsequent choice of career in biology, to pursue education on a master or PhD levels in Russia and beyond. Others enter professions such as education and research, agriculture, veterinary medicine, forest management, fish breeding, and nature protection to name just a few. Graduates can also work in research institutes, biotechnological companies, medical institutions, environmental organisations, and other companies.
Teaching staff
The faculty includes two members of the Russian Academy of Sciences — geneticists Sergey Inge-Vechtomov and Igor Tikhonovich; two professors of the Russian Academy of Sciences — ecologist Evgeny Abakumov and geneticist Anton Nizhnikov; and zoologist Nikita Chernetsov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Career opportunities
- Central Forest Nature Reserve
- Caucasus Nature Reserve
- Kandalaksha Nature Reserve
- Institute of Lake Studies of the RAS
- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics
- Pavlov Institute of Physiology
- National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”
- Department of Ecology and Nature Management of Kirov region
- Institute of Cytology
- Kamchatka branch of the Institute of Geography of the Far East branch of the RAS
- Almazov National Medical Research Centre
- Kurshsk Palace of Children and Youth Creative Work
- Leningrad branch of the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation
- Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters
- Zoological Institute of the RAS
- Ott Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- White Sea Biological Station
- Belozersky Institute Of Physico-Chemical Biology
- All-Russian Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology
Our graduates work in the research institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, biotechnological companies, medical institutions, nature reserves, industries etc. other go on to study or do research in the world’s leading research and educational centres.
Professions
- Hydro-biologist
- Ichthyologist
- Microbiologist
- Ichtyopathologist
- Teacher (pre-school institutions and secondary education)
- Teacher of the additional education for children and adults
- Teacher of the professional training, professional education, and additional professional education
- Expert in research and engineering
- Researcher