Environmental Geoscience, BSc (Hons), with study abroad

Our three-year Environmental Geoscience degree provides an in-depth exploration of Earth's processes, including glacial environments, quaternary changes, and topics like Earth systems, natural hazards, and environmental parameters. It combines physical geography and geology, equipping students with practical, numerical, and computational skills through fieldwork in locations such as the Gower Peninsula, Austria, Borneo, and the Indian Himalayas. This prepares graduates for careers in environmental management, conservation, or consultancy, while fostering transferable skills via a year abroad.The program includes compulsory modules on global environmental change and Earth history, alongside optional topics like geographic information systems and glaciology. Assessment involves lectures, tutorials, exams, coursework, fieldwork, and a final-year dissertation, ensuring a comprehensive and engaging learning experience.

In Year 1 you'll study several compulsory modules covering topics such as global environmental change, Earth in action, Earth science in the field and Earth's changing face. You will then choose from optional modules covering geographical skills and methods, writing skills and personal development planning and practical field projects, and topics such as sustainability and geology. In Year 2, you'll study compulsory topics such as Earth history and geological record of past environments. You'll then choose from a range of optional modules covering data analysis, approaches to physical geography and environmental research methods, and topics such as geographic information systems, glacial environments and processes, the Earth from Space, quaternary environmental change, global vegetation patterns and dynamics and urban modelling. You'll also have an opportunity to take part in an overseas field trip. In Year 3, you’ll study at a partner institution abroad. In Year 4, you'll undertake your dissertation and choose from a range of optional modules covering topics such as glaciology, humid tropical environments and landscapes, meteorology and atmospheric science, plate tectonics and global geophysics, environmental modelling and the climate of the last 1,000 years.