Edinburgh University provides an established degree programme in Geology and Physical Geography that is designed to meet society's need for geoscience graduates who can apply their skills to global change issues and to land and site management problems.
Graduates in Geology and Physical Geography are given a strong geology background, but also gain experience and knowledge in physical geography and man’s impact on the physical environment. Honours level projects may be of a geological, physical geography or hybrid nature, supervised by staff in either the Institute of Earth Science or the Institute of Geography. Students also select advanced level options from both geology and physical geography, enabling them to develop an overview of the linkages between geological processes and their surface manifestations on Earth.
Topics which are available as options include Glacial Geomorphology, Landscape dynamics, Geographic Information Science (GIS), Global Environmental Change, Palaeontology and several more. These illustrate a major strength of this degree programme: its diversity and ability to extend across the usual boundaries between geology and the physical processes acting on the Earth’s surface today.
Graduates from the Geology and Physical Geography degree programme are choosing a mixture of careers, from the academic, through direct employment in industry and local authorities, to diverse careers in multinational companies.
The programme aims to provide excellent preparation for a career in:
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Professional practice in industrial Earth or Environmental Sciences;
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Research in Earth Sciences and specialist areas of other physical and natural sciences; and
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Practice in industries, commerce, public service and education, particularly those needing to be informed by the methodology of a broad range of physical and natural science.
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