BSc Geology with Palaeontology with a Year Abroad
Course Overview
This course explores the origin and evolution of life through the fossil record, intricately linking it to the Earth's geological history. You will develop specialist expertise in key fossil groups while investigating major concepts like evolution, extinction, and ancient climates. The program is heavily field-based, with opportunities to apply your skills on trips to locations like Scotland, Spain, and Wales.
Key Program Highlights
- Specialist modules on vertebrate fossils, microfossils, and major events in the history of life
- Hands-on, field-based learning with trips to exceptional fossil locations in the UK and Europe
- Completion of an independent research dissertation on a palaeontological topic of your choice
- Option to pursue a three-year BSc or a four-year MGeol with an advanced research project
- Personal tutoring from specialists in palaeontology and access to cutting-edge analytical facilities
Course Overview
This course explores the origin and evolution of life through the fossil record, intricately linking it to the Earth's geological history. You will develop specialist expertise in key fossil groups while investigating major concepts like evolution, extinction, and ancient climates. The program is heavily field-based, with opportunities to apply your skills on trips to locations like Scotland, Spain, and Wales.
Key Program Highlights
- Specialist modules on vertebrate fossils, microfossils, and major events in the history of life
- Hands-on, field-based learning with trips to exceptional fossil locations in the UK and Europe
- Completion of an independent research dissertation on a palaeontological topic of your choice
- Option to pursue a three-year BSc or a four-year MGeol with an advanced research project
- Personal tutoring from specialists in palaeontology and access to cutting-edge analytical facilities
Requirements
Modules
- First Year Tutorials
- Evolution of the Earth System
- Palaeobiology and the Stratigraphic Record
- Natural Resources and Energy for the 21st Century
- Geological Maps and Structures
- Introductory Field Course
- From Core to Crust
- Our Dynamic Planet
- Geological Fieldwork: Methods and Applications
- Mapping Earth’s History: structural and stratigraphic field techniques
- Magmatic and Metamorphic Processes
- Major Events in the History of Life
- Climate Change: Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation
- Introduction to Geochemistry
- Structure and Tectonics
- Depositional Processes and Environments
- Independent Field-Based Project
- Diversity and Evolution of Vertebrates
- The Forensic, Archaeological and Geological Application of Microfossils
- Dissertation
- Environmental Geoscience
- Crustal Dynamics
- Sustainability Enterprise Partnership Project
- Planetary Science
- Mineral Exploration, Economics and Sustainability
- Key Events in the Evolution of Planet Earth Viewed Through the Geological Lens of Wales - a field course
- Physical Volcanology
- Stable Isotopes in the Environment
- Water Quality Processes and Management
