Biosecurity
Qualifications
Overview
Biosecurity concerns the exclusion, eradication, and effective management of threats to the economy, environment, and human health that are posed by pests and diseases. Aotearoa New Zealand's economy and trade rely on a strong primary production base, and our freedom from major pests and diseases is critical to producing efficiently and trading freely.
Ongoing global climate change and its effects on ecosystems make understanding biosecurity issues crucial. As our climate alters, organisms previously unable to survive in our environment may become a potential threat to our ecosystem.
Year 13 biology is recommended. Some background in mathematics, particularly statistics and chemistry, is valuable. All students should have adequate English skills.
UC offers Biosecurity as an endorsement to the Bachelor of Science. Students intending to complete this endorsement must also complete the Biological Sciences major.
For more information or help planning your courses for the Biosecurity endorsement, contact a College of Science | Te Rāngai Pūtaiao Student Advisor or view the Biological Sciences Undergraduate Handbook.
Students studying other degrees, such as the Bachelor of Arts, can take BIOS 201 Issues in New Zealand Biosecurity and BIOL 273 New Zealand Biodiversity and Biosecurity as interest courses.
As an emerging issue of both national and international importance, biosecurity provides many career opportunities in government agencies, spearheaded by the regulatory authority the Ministry for Primary Industries | Manatū Ahu Matua. You may also find work in Crown Research Institutes and in ministries concerned with conservation, the environment, agriculture, and forestry.
District and regional councils also may employ biologists to manage invading organisms.
Find out more about what you can do with a degree in Biosecurity.
Contact us
School of Biological Sciences | Te Kura Pūtaiao Koiora
Phone +64 3 369 5200
Email biological-sciences@canterbury.ac.nz
Location
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Postal address
College of Science | Te Rāngai Pūtaiao
University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
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