BSc Geology with Palaeontology with a Year in Industry
Course Overview
This course explores the origin and evolution of life through the fossil record, intricately linking it to Earth's geological history. You will develop specialist expertise in key fossil groups while learning to interpret the geological contexts and biases of their preservation. The program combines rigorous campus-based learning with extensive field trips and independent research projects in fossil-rich locations.
Key Program Highlights
- Specialist modules on major events in life's history, vertebrate palaeontology, and microfossils
- Hands-on field trips to exceptional fossil locations in Scotland, Spain, and Wales
- An independent research dissertation on a palaeontological topic of your choice
- Personal tutelage from academic specialists in the field of palaeontology
- Choice between a 3-year BSc or a 4-year MGeol with a major research project
Course Overview
This course explores the origin and evolution of life through the fossil record, intricately linking it to Earth's geological history. You will develop specialist expertise in key fossil groups while learning to interpret the geological contexts and biases of their preservation. The program combines rigorous campus-based learning with extensive field trips and independent research projects in fossil-rich locations.
Key Program Highlights
- Specialist modules on major events in life's history, vertebrate palaeontology, and microfossils
- Hands-on field trips to exceptional fossil locations in Scotland, Spain, and Wales
- An independent research dissertation on a palaeontological topic of your choice
- Personal tutelage from academic specialists in the field of palaeontology
- Choice between a 3-year BSc or a 4-year MGeol with a major research project
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
