MSc Sustainability Science
Course Overview
This interdisciplinary course equips you with the critical skills to address the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges by integrating perspectives from both the sciences and humanities. You will learn to develop innovative, sustainable solutions by analyzing complex earth-system processes and their societal impacts. The program offers flexible module options and independent research opportunities, allowing you to tailor your studies to your specific career ambitions.
Key Program Highlights
- Gain a unique, interdisciplinary perspective by collaborating with the Departments of Archaeology, and Environment and Geography
- Develop highly sought-after skills in data collation, analysis, and synthesis from diverse fields
- Tailor your learning through a wide range of module options and guided independent research projects
- Prepare for careers in sustainability, environmental consulting, research, or progression to a PhD
- Learn to address real-world sustainability issues that operate across timescales, from years to millennia
Course Overview
This interdisciplinary course equips you with the critical skills to address the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges by integrating perspectives from both the sciences and humanities. You will learn to develop innovative, sustainable solutions by analyzing complex earth-system processes and their societal impacts. The program offers flexible module options and independent research opportunities, allowing you to tailor your studies to your specific career ambitions.
Key Program Highlights
- Gain a unique, interdisciplinary perspective by collaborating with the Departments of Archaeology, and Environment and Geography
- Develop highly sought-after skills in data collation, analysis, and synthesis from diverse fields
- Tailor your learning through a wide range of module options and guided independent research projects
- Prepare for careers in sustainability, environmental consulting, research, or progression to a PhD
- Learn to address real-world sustainability issues that operate across timescales, from years to millennia
Requirements
Modules
- Research Skills and Methods
- Climate Science and Policy
- Data Science for Archaeology
- Ecosystem services & conservation
- Ecotoxicology and Environmental Health
- Environmental Economics
- Environmental Management in Practice
- GIS and spatial analysis
- Landscape Survey and Geophysics
- Monitoring, Assessment and Control of Pollution
- Plants in Archaeology
- Spatial Analysis and Modelling for Flood Risk Management
- Sustainability Clinic
- Business and Environment
- Archaeologies of Colonialism in the British Atlantic World
- Medieval Settlement and Communities
- Thinking through Material Culture
- Building Conservation Projects
- Buildings Recording
- Contemporary Issues in Museums
- Digital Approaches to Archaeology
- Digital Creativity
- Heritage Principles and Concepts
- Histories of Conservation
- Presenting Historic Houses
- Researching & Analysing Historic Buildings
- Sustainable Buildings: Carbon, Retrofit and Reuse
- Sustainable Conservation Challenges
- Understanding & Interpreting Historic Buildings
- Virtual Reality and 3D Modelling
- Ancient Biomolecules
- Animal Bones for Archaeologists
- Applied Economic Methods
- Artefacts and Materials Analysis
- Becoming Human
- Critical Approaches to Archaeological Practice
- Death, Burial and Commemoration in the Roman World
- Experimental Archaeology
- Life and Death in Iron Age Britain and Ireland
- Making the Nation
- Mesolithic Life and Death
- Museums, Audiences & Interpretation
- Project Management
- Roman Archaeology: Ancient pasts, current issues
- Roman Europe
- Skeletal Evidence for Health in the Past
- The Ancient Celts: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe
- The Archaeology of the Human Skeleton
- The Archaeology of Roman Religion
- The Viking Age: People, Places, Things
- Zooarchaeology in Context
- Sustainability I: Definitions of Sustainability and Methods of Assessment
- Sustainability II: Understanding Sustainability as Change Through Time
- Climate Science and Policy
- Data Science for Archaeology
- Ecosystem services & conservation
- Ecotoxicology and Environmental Health
- Environmental Economics
- Environmental Management in Practice
- GIS and spatial analysis
- Landscape Survey and Geophysics
- Monitoring, Assessment and Control of Pollution
- Plants in Archaeology
- Spatial Analysis and Modelling for Flood Risk Management
- Sustainability Clinic
- Business and Environment
- Archaeologies of Colonialism in the British Atlantic World
- Medieval Settlement and Communities
- Thinking through Material Culture
- Building Conservation Projects
- Buildings Recording
- Contemporary Issues in Museums
- Digital Approaches to Archaeology
- Digital Creativity
- Heritage Principles and Concepts
- Histories of Conservation
- Presenting Historic Houses
- Researching & Analysing Historic Buildings
- Sustainable Buildings: Carbon, Retrofit and Reuse
- Sustainable Conservation Challenges
- Understanding & Interpreting Historic Buildings
- Virtual Reality and 3D Modelling
- Ancient Biomolecules
- Animal Bones for Archaeologists
- Applied Economic Methods
- Artefacts and Materials Analysis
- Becoming Human
- Critical Approaches to Archaeological Practice
- Death, Burial and Commemoration in the Roman World
- Experimental Archaeology
- Life and Death in Iron Age Britain and Ireland
- Making the Nation
- Mesolithic Life and Death
- Museums, Audiences & Interpretation
- Project Management
- Roman Archaeology: Ancient pasts, current issues
- Roman Europe
- Skeletal Evidence for Health in the Past
- The Ancient Celts: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe
- The Archaeology of the Human Skeleton
- The Archaeology of Roman Religion
- The Viking Age: People, Places, Things
- Zooarchaeology in Context
- dissertation
- dissertation with placement