动物学是研究和了解生活在陆地，淡水或海洋中的动物的科学。它是生物学的一个分支，涵盖行为，分类，进化，保存，分布，生态学和自然历史，还包括生物化学和生理学，古生物学，分子生物学和遗传学以及动物的结构和功能。动物学专业的学生可以从事包括动物行为，动物生态学，环境和比较生理学，昆虫学，寄生虫学和淡水生态学在内的各种动物学学科的研究。
Zoology examines how animals of all kinds — from microscopic parasites to blue whales, and from tiny finches to dinosaurs — live (or lived) in every type of habitat on our planet. Through hands-on laboratory and fieldwork focused on the study of animal life, UNE's Bachelor of Zoology will equip you with the skills to think and act like a researcher in this specialist brand of biology. You will advance your understanding of the many facets of zoology so that you can apply your knowledge in the real world in areas such as animal behaviour, molecular biology and genetics, conservation biology, herpetology, parasitology, animal physiology, wildlife ecology, freshwater ecology and physical anthropology.<br>Create a lifelong career with Australia's only zoology-specific degree.<br>UNE offers the only zoology-specific degree in Australia. If you love animals and want to study their biology, ecology, and natural history UNE’s Bachelor of Zoology is the course for you. Throughout your degree, our Zoology in Practice core program helps you to forge connections in all aspects of your academic journey. The program ensures you will graduate with a solid foundation in pure science and core zoological knowledge and supports your learning and development with access to mentoring and research training.<br>Our majors are designed with future employability in mind, and we offer a range of multidisciplinary minors to extend and broaden your expertise. You can choose to major in applied zoology, natural history, animal ecology, or palaeobiology, and complement your study with minors including science communication, water science, museum studies, botany, spatial science, natural history, and zoological methods. We have a strong research culture underpinned by high research training standards. Our research in zoology, as well as in many other specific fields of scientific research including ecology, evolutionary biology and genetics, is world class.<br>The academic staff of our zoology department are internationally recognised experts in their fields with many years of experience working with various types of animals. Their experience and research are incorporated into the teaching material in all units of our zoology course. UNE's Armidale campus is surrounded by a range of landscapes and ecosystems including rainforests, coastal forests, semi-arid savannah, and freshwater environments that range from sub-tropical coastal ecosystems at sea-level to sub-alpine forests and woodlands at more than 1500m above sea level. Our close proximity to these diverse habitats provides easy access for field trips in which you will gain hands-on experience in zoology.