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Degree Programme Table: Environmental Geoscience (BSc Hons) - 4 Years (Full-time) (UTBSCENVGS1F)

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

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

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
The Dynamic Earth
GESC08003 20 credits
Earth Sciences for Society
EASC08029 20 credits
Geology and Landscapes
EASC08030 20 credits
Earth Science Data Analysis 1

Must be taken during Semester 2

EASC08028 20 credits
Oceanography
EASC08004 20 credits

Course options

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y

Select exactly 20 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y
Notes:
Students can take a maximum of 40 credits Level 7 language courses in 1st AND 2nd year (combined)
OR

Challenge Courses: Engaging with complex problems through interdisciplinary collaboration

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
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
BIME08006 20 credits
Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)
EDUA08116 20 credits
Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030
EFIE08008 20 credits
Living in the Anthropocene
GESC08004 20 credits
Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World
SSPS08012 20 credits
Healthy Eating for People and Planet
VETS08016 20 credits

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

Notes:
EASC08004 Oceanography is being transitioned to Y1 of the programme. Therefore appears in both Y1 and Y2 in 25/26.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Earth Materials: From atoms to planets
EASC08031 20 credits
Environmental Geochemistry of the Earth's Surface
EASC08024 20 credits
Earth Science Data Analysis 2
EASC08033 20 credits
Oceanography
EASC08004 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y

Select between 20 and 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y
Notes:
Students can take a maximum of 40 credits Level 7 language courses in 1st AND 2nd year (combined)
AND

Challenge Courses: Engaging with complex problems through interdisciplinary collaboration

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
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
BIME08006 20 credits
Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)
EDUA08116 20 credits
Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030
EFIE08008 20 credits
Living in the Anthropocene
GESC08004 20 credits
Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World
SSPS08012 20 credits
Healthy Eating for People and Planet
VETS08016 20 credits

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

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Field Course in Tropical Marine and Terrestrial Geoscience
EASC09036 20 credits
Environmental Pollution
ECSC09005 20 credits
Practical Geochemistry and Data Analysis
EASC10103 20 credits
Applied Hydrogeology and Near Surface Geophysics
EASC10101 20 credits
Earth's Atmospheric Composition
EASC10127 20 credits
Global Environmental Change
EASC09063 20 credits

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

Notes:
The Environmental GeoScience degree is currently undergoing a restructure. A new 20 credit compulsory course is expected for 25-26.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Environmental Geosciences Projects
EASC10009 40 credits
Environmental Geoscience 4th Year Field Course
EASC10086 10 credits
Topics in Global Change
ENVI10001 20 credits

Course options

Courses from School(s) N-N - Environmental Geoscience (BSc Hons) - Level(s) 10-10 4th year only

Select exactly 30 credits of the following courses
Hydrocarbon Reservoir Quality
EASC10015 10 credits
Earth Surface Processes
EASC10084 10 credits
Changing Marine Biogeochemical Cycles
EASC10123 20 credits
Hydrogeology 2: Simulation of Groundwater Flow and Transport
EASC10126 10 credits
Planetary Science
EASC10128 20 credits
Global Hydrology
GEGR10146 20 credits
Modelling of Systems for Sustainability
INFR10088 20 credits
Environmental Geochemistry
PGGE11172 10 credits
Principles and Practice of Remote Sensing
PGGE11233 20 credits
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