The MSc in Bioinformatics with Systems Biology can be taken as a full-time course over 12 months, or a part-time course over 24 months.
Full-time students take 12 taught modules, and undertake a research project. Part-time students take about six taught modules in each academic year and undertake the project in the second academic year.
Each taught module consists of approximately 20 one-hour lectures (roughly two lectures per week over one academic term), as well as approximately 10 hours of practicals or tutorials (roughly one one-hour practical or tutorial per week over one academic term), although the exact amount of lectures, practicals and tutorials varies between modules.
A part-time student would take about 3 taught modules in each period (Sept-Dec or Jan-Mar) over two academic years (eg. Sept 2009-Sept 2011), and so have about 6 one-hour lectures per week and about 3 hours of practicals or tutorials per week in the time from Sept-Dec and Jan-March. So in total, a part-time student would have roughly 9-10 hours of lectures/practicals/tutorials per week on average. There are exams for most of the taught modules in May of each of the two academic years. A part-time student will also carry out a research project during the summer of their second academic year (June-Sept).
For questions relating to this course, please contact Dr. Avril Coghlan at a.coghlan@ucc.ie.
