MSci Geophysics with a Year Abroad
Course Overview
This four-year Geophysics degree provides a comprehensive understanding of the Earth as a complex system and the environmental challenges that threaten our future. The program features a unique opportunity to study abroad for a year and is distinguished by its strong emphasis on practical fieldwork and the application of cutting-edge technological equipment. Graduates are highly employable, equipped with a prized blend of analytical, research, and problem-solving skills for careers in exploration, engineering, and environmental consultancy.
Key Program Highlights
- Spend your third year studying abroad with a university partner in Australasia, North America, or Europe
- Gain extensive hands-on experience through fieldwork in diverse geological environments
- Learn to operate industry-standard technological equipment for seismic, gravity, magnetic, and electrical investigations
- Tailor your degree by specialising in geological geophysics, geohazards, meteorology, climatology, or oceanography
- Develop highly prized analytical and research skills that lead to strong employability across multiple sectors
Course Overview
This four-year Geophysics degree provides a comprehensive understanding of the Earth as a complex system and the environmental challenges that threaten our future. The program features a unique opportunity to study abroad for a year and is distinguished by its strong emphasis on practical fieldwork and the application of cutting-edge technological equipment. Graduates are highly employable, equipped with a prized blend of analytical, research, and problem-solving skills for careers in exploration, engineering, and environmental consultancy.
Key Program Highlights
- Spend your third year studying abroad with a university partner in Australasia, North America, or Europe
- Gain extensive hands-on experience through fieldwork in diverse geological environments
- Learn to operate industry-standard technological equipment for seismic, gravity, magnetic, and electrical investigations
- Tailor your degree by specialising in geological geophysics, geohazards, meteorology, climatology, or oceanography
- Develop highly prized analytical and research skills that lead to strong employability across multiple sectors
Requirements
Modules
- Our World
- Sustainability Challenges and Solutions
- Earth Systems
- Computation and Modelling
- Mathematical Methods for Science and Engineering
- Data and Research Skills B
- Research Practice
- Further Mathematical Methods for Science and Engineering
- Fluid Flow - Theory and Computation
- Meteorology
- The Ocean System
- Inside the Earth
- Geomorphic Systems
- Earth's Critical Zone
- Stellar Physics
- Quantum Theory
- Dynamics and Vibration
- Renewable Energy
- Engineering Design Project
- Foundations of Data Science
- Volcanoes and Earthquakes
- GIS Skills for Project Work
- Programming for Non-Specialists
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Energy Transitions
- Year Abroad
- Research Training Project
- Modelling Environmental Processes
- Catchment Management
- Science of Climate Change
- Advanced Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence
- Solar Energy Engineering with Advanced Topics
- Database Manipulation
- GIS for Managing Ecological and Environmental Change
- Energy Infrastructure Engineering
- Data Mining
- Pathways to Net Zero
- Applied Statistics
- Environmental Economics
- Nuclear Engineering and Technology with Advanced Topics
- Statistics and Modelling for Scientists Using R
- Global Environmental Change
- Fluids Engineering for Renewable Energy
- Research Topics in Earth Science
- Geosciences Fieldcourse: Greece
