BSc Environmental Science
Course Overview
This dynamic BSc in Environmental Science equips students with the interdisciplinary knowledge and practical skills to tackle the world's most pressing ecological challenges. The program uniquely allows you to tailor your degree by selecting a specialized pathway, ensuring your education is directly aligned with your career ambitions in fields like conservation and sustainable management.
Key Program Highlights
- Choose from four specialized pathways: Aquatic Environments, Environmental Change, Biodiversity & Conservation, or Sustainable Management.
- Gain hands-on experience through extensive fieldwork and the use of advanced technology like drones and GIS software.
- Complete a final-year research project with real-world impact, often implemented by industry partners.
- Develop highly sought-after skills in data analysis, quantitative methods, and environmental assessment.
- Enhance your employability with the option to spend a year in industry or join award-winning extracurricular societies.
Course Overview
This dynamic BSc in Environmental Science equips students with the interdisciplinary knowledge and practical skills to tackle the world's most pressing ecological challenges. The program uniquely allows you to tailor your degree by selecting a specialized pathway, ensuring your education is directly aligned with your career ambitions in fields like conservation and sustainable management.
Key Program Highlights
- Choose from four specialized pathways: Aquatic Environments, Environmental Change, Biodiversity & Conservation, or Sustainable Management.
- Gain hands-on experience through extensive fieldwork and the use of advanced technology like drones and GIS software.
- Complete a final-year research project with real-world impact, often implemented by industry partners.
- Develop highly sought-after skills in data analysis, quantitative methods, and environmental assessment.
- Enhance your employability with the option to spend a year in industry or join award-winning extracurricular societies.
Requirements
Modules
- Dynamic Landscapes
- Ecology and Conservation
- Environmental Field Techniques and Applications
- Environmental Science: Concepts and Communication
- Exploring Urban and Natural Environments
- Geographies of Risk
- Quantitative Methods
- The Earth System
- Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
- Global Sustainability Challenges
- Introduction to Environmental Pollution
- Research Project Preparation
- Researching the Environment
- Advanced Geographical Information Systems
- Animal Behaviour
- Evolution
- Geohazards
- Global Climate Change: Science, Impacts and Policy
- Global Sustainability Challenges
- Global Tipping Points
- Introduction to Energy in The Environment
- Long-term Environmental Change
- Marine Benthic Ecology
- Marine Vertebrates
- Monitoring Coastal and Estuarine Environments
- Phytoplankton and Primary Production
- Plant Development and Function
- Population Change in Low and Middle Income Countries
- Population and Community Ecology
- Remote Sensing for Earth Observation
- Zooplankton Ecology and Processes
- Individual Project
- Legal and Policy Landscapes
- Nature Based Solutions
- Adapting to Climate Change and Weather Hazards
- Advanced Arid Environments Field Course (Namibia)
- Advanced Geographical Information Systems
- Air Quality and Environmental Pollution
- Applied GIS: Using GIS in the Workplace
- Applied Plant Biology
- Arolla Fieldcourse: Geographical Research in Alpine Environments
- Behavioural Ecology
- Biodiversity and Conservation
- Biogeochemical Cycles in the Earth System
- Data Collection and Research Methods for Sustainability and Environmental Science
- Deep Sea Ecology
- Desert Landscapes: Modelling and Measuring Aeolian Systems
- Earth Resources for the Green Transition
- Environment and Health
- Environmental Sensing for Real World Geomorphological Challenges
- Environmental and Engineering Geology
- Evolution and Genetics
- Geographies of Nature: food, animals and other nonhuman life
- Glaciers in a Changing Climate
- Global Challenges in Biology
- Marine Fisheries Ecology
- Migration and Development
- Nature Based Solutions
- Palaeoclimate Change
- Professional Practice in Environmental Science
- River Basin Management and Restoration
- Seafloor Exploration and Surveying
- Sustainable Resource Management
- Water, People and Environment: Cambodia Field Course