理学学士学位自然科学学位提供了广泛的研究主题选择，并且不需要申请人学习任何特定主题。杜伦大学自然科学学位的关键特征是选择，灵活性和深度。自然科学学位课程具有广泛的学科选择，并且在以后的几年中，可以在学科内的各个模块之间进行选择。它也是一种灵活的学位课程，对于大多数科目，您可以推迟选择科目，直到到达杜伦为止，也可以在第一年末更改学位的形状。
The key characteristics of the Natural Sciences degree at Durham are choice, flexibility and depth. The Natural Sciences degree has a wide choice of subjects and in later years there is choice between modules within subjects. It is also a flexible degree and with most subjects you can delay choosing your subjects until you get to Durham and you can also change the shape of your degree at the end of the first year.<br><br>The Natural Sciences degree has the following features:<br><br>The degree is based at the Durham campus.<br>The University operates on a system of undergraduates studying 120 credits each year. There are 20, 40 and a few 60 credit modules, so students choose combinations of modules which add up to precisely 120 credits.<br>There are two types of degree that you can obtain, a 3-year BSc (degree code CFG0) or a 4-year MSci (degree code FGC0). Both the BSc and the MSci contain BSc Joint Honours and MSci Joint Honours degrees as well as the more broad BSc Natural Sciences and MSci Natural Sciences degrees.<br>You should note that not all combinations of all modules in all subjects are feasible. Choices are constrained by the limits of the University timetable, which changes every year.<br>As part of the BSc Natural Sciences degree you may follow one of the following patterns of study:<br><br>a BSc Natural Sciences degree in which you study two or more subjects and start a new subject in your second year or carry on with the three subjects you have studied in your first year.<br>a Joint Honours BSc degree within Natural Sciences which involves studying the same two subjects in each of the three years (it is usually possible to study three or even four subjects in the first year).<br>take a Year Abroad in between the second and third years.<br>do a placement in between the second and third years.