Course Content
Year 1
Core modules
All modules in this list are worth 20 credits each.
- Analysis of the Earth and Environment - 20 credits
- Ecology, Plants and Human Impact - 20 credits
- Environmental Processes and Hazards - 20 credits
- Global Environmental Challenges - 20 credits
- How the Earth Works - 20 credits
- Introduction to Marine Ecology and Oceanography - 20 credits
Year 2
Core modules
- Environmental Chemistry and Monitoring - 20 credits
- Environmental Fieldwork and Professional Skills - 20 credits
- Research Skills - 20 credits
Optional modules
All modules in this list are worth 20 credits each.
- Energy Resources and the Science of Zero Carbon
- Environmental Change
- Hydrology and Geoenvironmental Risk
- Institution Wide Language Programme
- Introduction to Teaching
- Overseas Study
- Practical Boating Skills
- River Processes
- Scientific and Technical Diving Techniques A
- Scientific and Technical Diving Techniques B
- Transport and Sustainability
Optional placement year
- work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years
Year 3
Core modules
- Environmental Assessment and Management - 20 credits
- Environmental Pollution and Waste Management - 20 credits
- Research Project - 40 credits
Optional modules
- Analytical Methods for Earth and Environmental Sciences (20 credits)
- European Study Tour (20 credits)
- Tropical Study Tour (20 credits)
- Conservation Biogeography (20 credits)
- Climate Change (20 credits)
- The Green Economy (20 credits)