The course leads to the award of an Postgraduate Certificate in Protein Crystallography from Birkbeck College, University of London that can be combined with the Principles in Protein Structure or Techniques in Structural and Molecular Biology web course for a Masters in Structural Biology (UK). The one-year course consists nominally of 3 terms of 12 weeks each, equivalent to 2 semesters. It is not possible to make definite statements about the credit equivalent (US).

Each student is assessed by a combination of the course work assignments submitted in Terms 1 and 2, and a 3 hour, unseen written examination in Term 3. The final course mark will consist of 75% from the unseen examination and 25% from the course work (for postgraduate certificate students).

The examination will be held at an approved external examination centre local to the place of residence of the student (e.g. at a local university). An extra fee, determined by the local centre, may be incurred for students sitting exams at external examination centres.

Note: A student may opt not to take the unseen final examination and/or not to do the projects.

This year, the exam date has been set for the 15th of August

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