Environmental Science BSc(Hons)

Why choose this course?

If you are interested in the challenges associated with climate change, development pressures, water resources and environmental pollution, this course is ideal. You will learn to understand, measure and monitor the Earth's environmental
systems, and predict, manage and respond to new environmental challenges.

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What will you study?

The course introduces you to the concepts of environmental science and important scientific investigation techniques. You will study the processes that operate within environmental systems and cause change, along with the ways in which people have used the environment in the past and the present. In addition, you will learn to make accurate observations of the environment in the laboratory and in the field, and to evaluate your findings.

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1

• Understanding the Environment
• Earth Environments
• Metals and Molecules in the Environment
• Investigating the Earth and Environment
• Digital Earth

• Digital Earth

  Digital Earth introduces the underlying geographical skills of data collection, manipulation, analysis and presentation and the use of computers for dealing with digital spatial data. It focuses on the concepts and value of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in geosciences and the importance of digital spatial data in the modern geo-infrastructure.

  
   
• The Dynamic Earth
• Sustainable Development: Issues and Concepts
• Historical Geology
• Globalising Worlds

Year 2

• Ecology: Principles and Practice
• Environmental Impact of Energy and Chemical Production
• Environmental Management: Tools and Methodologies
• Collection and Analysis of Environmental Data
• Project Design and Management
• Option modules

• Option modules

  Option modules may include:

  • Atmosphere and Oceans
  • Environmental Economics
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Geomorphology
  • Hazard, Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
  • Hydrology
  • Invertebrate Diversity
  • Marine and Freshwater Ecology
  • Planning and the Environment
  • Remote Sensing and Image Processing
  
   

Year 3

• Research Project
• Achieving a Sustainable Future
• Land Degradation and Management
• Option modules

• Option modules

  Option modules may include:

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Conservation in Aquatic Environments
  • Development Geography: Asian and African Realities
  • Ecology and Conservation in Temperate Ecosystems
  • Geographical Analysis and Modelling
  • Global Environmental Issues
  • Land Degradation and Management
  • Managing Environmental Change
  • Remote Sensing and Image Processing
  • Restructuring the British Countryside
  • Toxicology
  • Water Resource Management