荣誉科学学士学位（BSc（Hons））的特定目标是发展高级理论和研究技能，从而为高级专业或学术职业提供平台。遗传学将孟德尔遗传学和细胞遗传学的经典方法与最近发展的分子遗传学学科相结合。它是一门非常实用的科学，它还具有复杂而有趣的理论基础。
The world of genetics is enormous. It touches our everyday lives in ways we can’t even begin to imagine.Genetics is a rapidly-progressing science, a central theme of modern biology, and a critical component of most biological research. With a high demand for genetics graduates within New Zealand and overseas, a degree in this ground-breaking and practical discipline will provide you with many career options.Genetics is a rapidly-progressing science, a central theme of modern biology, and an indispensable component of most biological research. The Genetics programme at Otago draws together the departments of Anatomy, Biochemistry, Botany, Microbiology and Immunology, Pathology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Women’s and Children’s Health, and Zoology.Graduates with a genetics degree from Otago can be found all over New Zealand and around the world, doing all sorts of interesting things. A degree in Genetics gives you a wide range of marketable skills suitable for employment in biologically- based industries, research organisations and government departments. You could be a research associate, policy analyst, biotechnologist, conservation worker or biosecurity analyst, to name but a few .With further study you could be a patent lawyer, science journalist, or a researcher in human, animal, plant, or microbial genetics.