理学学士-遗传学

理学学士学位（BSc）是三年制本科学位，使每个学生都可以发展自己在理科（理科专业）和相关科目的兴趣。学生可以灵活地将其主要学科与其他科学学科以及全校其他学科的学科相结合。遗传学将孟德尔遗传学和细胞遗传学的经典方法与最近发展的分子遗传学学科相结合。它是一门非常实用的科学，它还具有复杂而有趣的理论基础。
Genetics is a rapidly-progressing science, a central theme of modern biology, and an indispensable component of most biological research.<br>The Genetics programme at Otago draws together the departments of Anatomy, Biochemistry, Botany, Microbiology and Immunology, Pathology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Women's and Children's Health, and Zoology.<br>This allows staff and students to interact and share ideas across a broader sphere than is possible in any one department.<br>Graduates with a genetics degree from Otago can be found all over New Zealand and around the world, doing all sorts of interesting things. A degree in Genetics gives you a wide range of marketable skills suitable for employment in biologically- based industries, research organisations and government departments.<br>You could be a research associate, policy analyst, biotechnologist, conservation worker or biosecurity analyst, to name but a few<br>With further study you could be a patent lawyer, science journalist, or a researcher in human, animal, plant, or microbial genetics.<br>A Genetics degree from Otago also provides an excellent foundation for the further training required to be a genetic counsellor or forensic scientist.