You'll gain a sound understanding of how the human body functions in healthy and diseased states, barriers to health care, and methods for treatment. This degree could lead to careers in designing medicines to alleviate symptoms or vaccines to prevent diseases, or impacting public health policy.

Genetics

Your studies in genetics involve the analysis of DNA and the many ways in which it is expressed. This major delivers a broad overview of the universal principles, potentials and problems associated with DNA-based life, and provides you with the essential skills of a geneticist. The knowledge acquired by studying genetics opens up many career opportunities because it is important for all biological sciences, allowing you to work in a wide range of disciplines including agriculture, biochemistry, botany, conservation biology, ecology, medicine, microbiology, molecular biology and zoology.

A geneticist can be a researcher in medicine, molecular biology and genetics; a physician who has specialised training in genetics; a genetic counsellor; a plant or animal breeder; an ecologist or work in pharmacology and various other specialities.