Class 13 - Biological Sciences features courses focused on the study of living things under different aspects (including structure, organization, function, growth, reproduction, evolution, distribution) and aimed at understanding the origins and rules of Life, through the analysis of the mechanisms and properties of living things. Biology, in short, studies the fundamental elements of Nature. Due to its current and constantly evolving content, the curriculum of studies, combining tradition and innovation, represents the fruit of a modern and integrated approach to biology. The study path in Biological Sciences, originally five years, remaining faithful to its cultural identity, has proposed, in the new "3+2" key provided for by Ministerial Decree 509, a training path already well consolidated in previous regulations, presenting it in a more flexible and reasonably innovative scheme. This path has had, since the past, a strong multidisciplinary characterization, implemented through a real and constructive integration of the various scientific, biological and non-biological disciplines. Class 13 is typically characterized by this transversal approach, in which the fundamental educational activities, which include preparatory subjects, such as Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, provide the cultural substrate and the tools to develop biological subjects, both basic and characterizing. The disciplines included in the characterizing activities and in the similar and integrative activities are, on the other hand, representative of cultural areas of central interest in Biology, proposed according to a scheme that has left a wide margin of choice to the locations, allowing for the construction of personalized paths, which take into account local needs and resources, also ensuring adequate transversal scientific preparation in the disciplines that characterize the class.

Degree class: L-13 - BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Restricted number (200 places)
Location: Ecotekne Campus (via Monteroni – Lecce) complexes A, B, D

Our course: The three-year degree course in Biological Sciences trains the professional figure of the Junior Biologist, whose knowledge is preparatory to the acquisition of the second level or Master's degree.

Peculiarities: The first level course allows you to acquire the fundamental knowledge for a professional career in all branches of Life Sciences.

Towards internationalization: The mobility and internationalization of students is supported through scholarships and agreements with numerous European universities for courses and internships abroad.

Towards work: The main employment opportunities concern professional activities in the bio-health, industrial, veterinary, agri-food and production fields, also carried out in public and private research and service bodies, with reference to analysis, monitoring, management, prevention; identification, enhancement and sustainable use of biological resources; conservation and protection of biodiversity, the environment, and human health.