DPT: Earth Sciences (BSc Hons) - 4 Years (Full-time) (UTBSCESCIE1F)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Students are required to take 120 credits each year.

Compulsory courses

The Dynamic Earth

Earth Sciences for Society

Geology and Landscapes

Earth Science Data Analysis 1

Must be taken during Semester 2

Course options

Students can take a maximum of 40 credits Level 7 language courses in 1st AND 2nd year (combined)

AND

Challenge Courses are designed to bring together students from different degree programmes to explore the complex issues facing the world today through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.

Working with each other and expert academics, students will gain new perspectives and develop important life skills highly valued by employers, such as teamwork, problem-solving and adaptability.

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Wicked problems: Reason and Rhetoric

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Students are required to take 120 credits each year.

Students continuing into Year 2 of the programme should take all compulsory courses plus select an option from Group A.

Direct entry students to Year 2 of the programme MUST take the compulsory courses plus The Dynamic Earth in Semester 1. There are no elective options for students in this group.

Compulsory courses

Earth Materials: From atoms to planets

Earth Science Data Analysis 2

Rock Forming Processes

Field Skills for Earth Sciences

Introduction to Geophysics

Course options

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Wicked problems: Reason and Rhetoric

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Direct Entry students MUST take this option.

The Dynamic Earth

Year 3 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Please note that student are permitted to take 20 credits in semester 2 rather than semester 1, but should consider the workload of having 80 credits in semester 2 (including fieldtrip).

Compulsory courses

Sedimentology, Climate and Tectonics

Co-evolution of Life and Earth

Structural Geology and Tectonics

Igneous, Metamorphic and Ore Processes

Advanced Field Skills for Earth Science

Course options

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Hydrogeology 1: Applied Hydrogeology

Applied Hydrogeology and Near Surface Geophysics

Glacial Processes and Geomorphology

Eroding Landscapes: Mountains, Hills and Rivers

Student can take 20 credits in semester 2 but should consider the workload of having 80 credits total across semester 2 (including fieldtrip).

Please note that places are limited for EASC10100 and MSc students get priority for places.

Topics in Palaeobiology and Evolution

Nuclear Waste Management: Principles, Policies and Practice

Changing Marine Biogeochemical Cycles

Hydrogeology 2: Simulation of Groundwater Flow and Transport

Planetary Science

Topics in Global Change

Ice and Climate

Volcanoes, Environment and People

Global Hydrology

Self-Designed Learning (10 credits; SCQF level 10; GeoSciences)

Year 4 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

The Earth Sciences degree is currently undergoing a restructure. The courses listed below will change in 26/27, which will be the first delivery of Year 4 of the programme.