BSc Environmental Management and Sustainability
Course Overview
This BSc in Environmental Management and Sustainability equips you with the scientific and socio-economic expertise to tackle complex environmental challenges and drive sustainable solutions. You will develop highly sought-after professional skills through practical experience, including field trips and an industry placement, preparing you for a rewarding career. The program is highly flexible, allowing you to tailor your degree to your specific interests within this critical field.
Key Program Highlights
- Gain hands-on experience through UK and international field trips, including a residential course in the Netherlands
- Develop professional skills with a dedicated one-week industry placement or opt for a full placement year
- Learn from world-leading experts in a department ranked 1st in the UK for Agriculture & Forestry (QS 2023)
- Customize your degree with a wide range of optional modules spanning ecology, economics, and international development
- Conduct an independent research project embedded within one of the university's active research groups
Course Overview
This BSc in Environmental Management and Sustainability equips you with the scientific and socio-economic expertise to tackle complex environmental challenges and drive sustainable solutions. You will develop highly sought-after professional skills through practical experience, including field trips and an industry placement, preparing you for a rewarding career. The program is highly flexible, allowing you to tailor your degree to your specific interests within this critical field.
Key Program Highlights
- Gain hands-on experience through UK and international field trips, including a residential course in the Netherlands
- Develop professional skills with a dedicated one-week industry placement or opt for a full placement year
- Learn from world-leading experts in a department ranked 1st in the UK for Agriculture & Forestry (QS 2023)
- Customize your degree with a wide range of optional modules spanning ecology, economics, and international development
- Conduct an independent research project embedded within one of the university's active research groups
Requirements
Modules
- Global Sustainability: Challenges and Prospects
- Ecology and Environmental Management
- International Development: Global and Local Issues
- Key Skills for Environmental Management and Sustainability
- The Fundamentals of Management and Marketing
- Fundamentals of Ecology
- Approaches to Human Geography
- Restless Planet
- Landscapes and Resources
- Contemporary World Cultures: An Introduction to Social Anthropology
- Data Skills
- Environmental Management and Sustainability in Practice
- Tools for Environmental Management and Sustainability
- Farmland and Woodland: Ecology and Management
- Environment and Development
- Energy Resources
- Applied Marketing and Management
- Approaches to International Development
- Water in the Earth System
- Climate and Environmental Change
- Conservation Science in Practice
- Social Responsibility in Action
- Marine Biology and Conservation
- Independent Research Project
- Transitions to Sustainability
- Ecosystem Services and Nature-based Solutions
- Power and Development
- Air Pollution: Effects and Control
- Ecosystems Modelling
- Environmental Pollution
- Consumption, Politics and Space
- Climate Smart Agriculture
- Ecology of Urban Areas
- Water Resources
- Preparing for Floods
- Climate Change and Geographies of Responsibility
