Students who return failing grades in a trimester amounting to 15 credits, or more, will be identified under the UCD Continuation – Academic Progress policy. Students whose rate of progression and performance over two academic years is deemed unacceptable will be referred to the Governing Board to be reviewed for exclusion from the programme.
Students who fail to progress from the stage of the programme they are registered to for more than two academic years (except where a period of Leave of Absence has been granted for one of those years) will also be contacted under the Continuation – Academic Progress Policy.
As Stages 3 and 4 have the most dynamic components of the programme, and the material studied previously may no longer be relevant, a student who has been away from the programme for a significant period should be required to register again to Stage 3. The upper limit for completion of Stages 3 and 4 should be six years if they choose to do 120 credits with 20 in each year.

Students must select a total of 12 modules (60 credits) in Stage 1 with a minimum of 11 modules taken from core and option modules. An elective module can be taken in the Spring trimester. Students select their preferred pathway in the Science, Mathematics and Education stream to choose the relevant core and option modules.

Module ID	Module Title	Trimester	Credits
Stage 1 Core Modules Science, Mathematics & Education
MATH10350	Calculus in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences	Autumn	5
SCI10010	Principles of Scientific Enquiry	Autumn	5
Stage 1 Core Modules Science, Mathematics & Education
Stage 1 Options - C)MIN0OF: Students must have a minimum of 55 credits in Science Programme modules. Students may select 60 credits from Science programme modules or they can choose 55 credits and one 5-credit elective for Spring. Careful selection of modules can increase the number of subject areas available to a student in Stage 2.
BIOL00010	Fundamentals of Biology	Autumn	5
BIOL10130	Biology in Action	Autumn	5
BIOL10140	Life on Earth	Autumn	5
CHEM00010	Introductory Chemistry	Autumn	5
CHEM10040	The Molecular World	Autumn	5
CHEM20100	Basis of Inorganic Chemistry	Autumn	5
COMP10010	Introduction to Programming I	Autumn	5
PHIL10160	Critical Thinking	Autumn	5
PHYC10050	Astronomy & Space Science	Autumn	5
PHYC10070	Foundations of Physics	Autumn	5
PHYC10210	Quanta, Particles & Relativity	Autumn	5
PHYC20080	Fields, Waves and Light	Autumn	5
GEOL10050	Earth and Humanity	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
GEOL10060	Introduction to Earth Sciences	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
STAT10050	Practical Statistics	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
ACM10090	Climate Change:Causes & Consequences	Spring	5
BIOL10110	Cell Biology & Genetics	Spring	5
BMOL10030	Biomedical Sciences: Understanding Human Disease.	Spring	5
CHEM10050	Basis of Organic and Biological Chemistry	Spring	5
CHEM10100	Aspects of Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology	Spring	5
CHEM20140	Introductory Transition Metal Chemistry	Spring	5
COMP10020	Introduction to Programming II	Spring	5
COMP10060	Computer Science for Engineers I	Spring	5
GEOL10020	Earth Science and Materials	Spring	5
GEOL10030	Field Geology, Level 1	Spring	5
GEOL10040	Earth, Environment and Society	Spring	5
MATH10320	Mathematical Analysis	Spring	5
MATH10410	Mathematics & Science Education & Communication	Spring	5
PHYC10080	Frontiers of Physics	Spring	5
PHYC10250	Thermal Physics and Materials	Spring	5
Stage 1 Options - C)MIN0OF: Students must have a minimum of 55 credits in Science Programme modules. Students may select 60 credits from Science programme modules or they can choose 55 credits and one 5-credit elective for Spring. Careful selection of modules can increase the number of subject areas available to a student in Stage 2.
Stage 1 Options - Subject / Streams
Mathematics, Biology and Education (A)
Mathematics, Chemistry & Education
Mathematics, Physics & Education
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics & Education
Mathematics, Computer Science and Education
Stage 1 Options - Subject / Streams

		Award		GPA
Programme	Module Weightings	Rule Description	Description
BHSCI001	Stage 4 - 70.00% Stage 3 - 30.00%	Standard Honours Award	First Class Honours	3.68	4.20
			Second Class Honours, Grade 1	3.08	3.67
			Second Class Honours, Grade 2	2.48	3.07
			Pass	2.00	2.47