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I really enjoyed E & B, and so did everyone else that took it I think.
This subject covers a broad range of biological topics with an evolutionary theme, with
a little bit of everything for everyone - it pretty much does
exactly what it says on the tin. You get lectures three times a
week, and you have a practical every other week. If I'm being
honest, some of the practicals this year seemed a bit pointless, but
others were really helpful. Some are assessed too, so it's worth going to all of them.
If you do E and B you get the chance to go on a field course for a week over Easter. I
cannot stress how amazing the field course was! I was really
sceptical about the course, it was the last thing I wanted to do in
my holiday, but actually it turned out to be really great fun. For
about £40 you get a week in a manor house surrounded by lecturers,
post-grads and staff from the Uni. The staff were really helpful
and friendly throughout. I thought the relaxed atmosphere created
was brilliant, just what we all needed I think after a hard term
of... um... work. You could do as much or as little as you wanted, with
the staff on hand to answer any questions you have as they go. There
are lots of talks, which complimented the course really well,
followed by lots of countryside exploring. It's all well and good
learning about insects in a book, but being shown them in real life
is much more useful. You get to learn lots of cool facts to throw
into your essays too for extra brownie points too.
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I wouldn't bother buying any books for this course as such. You study quite a wide range of subjects,
so there isn't really one that covers everything. M Ridley's
'Evolution' is recommended, but I don't think it's necessary to buy
it. The library in college is really well supplied, and the Zoology
department library is really good too.
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