MSc Medical Neuroscience

Topics likely to be covered

There are several topic areas covered within the programme that will allow you to develop and enhance your specialist knowledge of Medical Neuroscience. The investigation of the biology of the nervous system will allow you to generalise this biology to common situations in Medical Neuroscience and critically appraise current evidence for common topics in Medical Neuroscience, such as:

• Foundations of Medical Neuroscience (covering the structure and function of the nervous system, core principle of molecular, cellular, behavioural and systems neuroscience, Neuronal transmission, and synaptic physiology, measuring brain activity and Neuropharmacology)
• Laboratory Measurement Techniques for Medicinal Chemistry and Nanomedicine
• Contemporary Issues in Medical Science
• Science Communication
• Medical Neuroanatomy
• Neurodegeneration and repair
• Postgraduate Taught Masters Dissertation

MSc 1 Year Full-time - September

Year 1 (Level 7T)

FHEQ 7 Taught Masters / PGDip / PGCert

Compulsory Modules

• Science Communication
• Advanced Learning, Memory and Cognition
• Contemporary Issues in Medical Science
• Foundations of Medical Neuroscience
• Medical Neuroanatomy
• Postgraduate Taught Masters Dissertation
• Laboratory Measurement Techniques for Medical Sciences
• Neurodegeneration & Repair

MSc 1 Year Full-time - January

Year 1 (Level 7T)

FHEQ 7 Taught Masters / PGDip / PGCert

Compulsory Modules

• Contemporary Issues in Medical Science
• Science Communication
• Postgraduate Taught Masters Dissertation
• Laboratory Measurement Techniques for Medical Sciences
• Foundations of Medical Neuroscience
• Neurodegeneration & Repair
• Advanced Learning, Memory and Cognition
• Medical Neuroanatomy

This course has been designed to provide you with a challenging, but enriching, academic experience that is geared towards you developing a career in Medical Neuroscience and the Life Science sectors.

This course will equip graduates with the attributes and abilities to undertake continued study, highly skilled employment, or gain access to the professions. This will include healthcare, Medical Neuroscience, and life sciences in Wales and beyond.

This course aims to produce well-rounded, highly skilled, and knowledgeable scientists with transferable professional practice attributes, providing strong foundations that could improve employment prospects and prepare you for life-long learning via continued professional development.

Careers and Employability

Swansea Employability Academy (SEA) will support you at each stage of your career journey helping you build a bright future.

Our career support services include:

• Employability workshops, employers’ talks, bespoke events and careers fairs
• Individual advice and guidance from professionally qualified career advisers
• Help with finding jobs, internships, work placements and volunteering opportunities
• Access to information resources on a wide range of career management topics
• Funding to support student internship opportunities and Student Society/Club events.

We also provide help and advice for Swansea University Alumni up to two years after you graduate.

Why Medical Neuroscience at Swansea University?

• 100% of Our Research Was Considered Internationally Excellent in Terms of Our Impact (ref2021).
• Postgraduate students have access to facilities in the £100 million Institute of Life Science (ILS) building
• ILS has clinical research of social importance as a focus, through links with NHS and industrial partners
• Supported by Research active teaching staff
• High-quality support for MSc student research projects

The programme uses a blended learning approach inclusive of traditional face-to-face teaching methods, practical and self-directed learning, and small group sessions. Most modules will be intense, immersive learning weeks, where students attend campus for a full week. Retrieval Practice will also be deployed as a means of encouraging and developing peer learning opportunities for learning, teaching, and assessment.

We are proud to provide an outstanding educational experience, using the most effective learning and teaching approaches, carefully tailored to suit the specific needs of your course. Apart from a small number of online-only courses, most of our courses consist of in-person, on-campus teaching, enabling full engagement with your lecturers and fellow students.

Practical skills sessions, lab work seminars, and workshops predominantly take place in person, allowing for group work and demonstrations. We also operate virtual labs and Simulated Learning Environments which will facilitate greater access to training opportunities in the future. However, our approach also includes the use of some online learning to support and enhance traditional face-to-face teaching.

Online learning may take place ‘live’ using software such as Zoom, allowing you to interact with the lecturer and other students and to ask questions. Lecture recordings also allow for more flexibility to revisit material, to revise for assessments and to enhance learning outside of the classroom. Some modules have extra resources in Canvas, such as videos, slides and quizzes enabling further flexible study.