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Earth Sciences MSci & BSc degrees are intended as an entry route for high-level professional employment or postgraduate education.

This flexible programme allows you to select from the range of options offered across environmental geoscience, geology and geophysics. You may also graduate with a degree in Earth Sciences Palaeobiology or Environment and Policy dependent on your chosen courses.

Earth Sciences Degree

Other ES streams:

Further enquiries:

Dr Matt Fox

In entry to the programme, you will select a 'diet', following a pathway through the subject (General, Palaeobiology, or Environment and Policy). There is some overlap between these diets and opportunities to switch diets particularly in the first and the second year of study. The holistic nature of the subject is emphasized. Students should normally take at least four half course credits in the Earth Sciences Department each year. Optional modules based in other departments may be chosen from those listed for the Geology, Geophysics or Environmental Geoscience  degree programmes.

The first and second years provide core skills and knowledge in the subject. The third year provides opportunities for specialisation and diversification, with an emphasis on individual initiative and problem-based learning. Fieldwork provides a unique opportunity to develop independent and team skills and problem-solving abilities.

Year 1

Core or compulsory modules

Term 1:

Term 2:

Optional modules:

Term 1:

Fieldwork:

  • Dorset/Devon Coast
  • Cornwall/Devon Coast

     

      Year 2

      Core or compulsory modules

      Term 1:

      Term 2:

      Optional modules:

      Term 1:

      Fieldwork:

      • Dorset/Devon Coast
      • Cornwall/Devon Coast

      Year 3

      Core or compulsory modules

      Term 1:

      Term 2:

      Optional modules:

      Term 1:

      Fieldwork:

      • Dorset/Devon Coast
      • Cornwall/Devon Coast

      Year 4

      Core or compulsory modules

      Term 1:

      Term 2:

      Optional modules:

      Term 1:

      Fieldwork:

      • Dorset/Devon Coast
      • Cornwall/Devon Coast

       

      Year 1

      Core or compulsory modules

      Term 1:

      Term 2:

      Optional modules:

      Term 1:

      Fieldwork:

      • Dorset/Devon Coast
      • Cornwall/Devon Coast

      Year 2

      Core or compulsory modules

      Term 1:

      Optional modules:

      Term 1:

      • Vertebrate Palaeontology & Evolution
      • Global Geophysics
      • Geomorphology 
      • Ecological Patterns and Processes 
      • Surface & Groundwater Hydrology
      • Science in Popular Culture

      Term 2:

      • Sedimentology and Stratigraphy 
      • Igneous Petrology
      • Principles of Climate
      • Isotope Geology 
      • Reconstructing Past Environments 
      • Environmental Remote Sensing 
      • Engaging the Public with Science

      Fieldwork:

      • Pyrenees, Spain

      Year 3

      Optional modules

      Term 1:

      • Biodiversity & Macroevolutionary Patterns
      • Ocean Physics & Climate Change 
      • Geological/Environmental Mapping Project
      • Marine Geology
      • Seismology I 
      • Metamorphism and Metamorphic Processes
      • Tectonic Geomorphology

      Term 1 & 2:

      • Geosciences Report

      Term 2:

      • Crustal Dynamics, Mountain Building & Basin Evolution
      • Earth Resources & Sustainability
      • Geodynamics and Global Tectonics
      • Groundwater Science 
      • Seismology II
      • Advanced Geochemistry
      • Statistics for Geoscientists
      • Environmental Consequences of Human Activity

      Fieldwork:

      • South-East Spain

       

      The 2x2 layout

      Year 1

      Core or compulsory modules

      Term 1:

      Term 2:

      Optional modules:

      Term 1:

      Fieldwork:

      • Dorset/Devon Coast
      • Cornwall/Devon Coast

      Year 2

      Core or compulsory modules

      Term 1:

      Optional modules:

      Term 1:

      • Vertebrate Palaeontology & Evolution
      • Global Geophysics
      • Geomorphology 
      • Ecological Patterns and Processes 
      • Surface & Groundwater Hydrology
      • Science in Popular Culture

      Term 2:

      • Sedimentology and Stratigraphy 
      • Igneous Petrology
      • Principles of Climate
      • Isotope Geology 
      • Reconstructing Past Environments 
      • Environmental Remote Sensing 
      • Engaging the Public with Science

      Fieldwork:

      • Pyrenees, Spain

      Year 3

      Optional modules

      Term 1:

      • Biodiversity & Macroevolutionary Patterns
      • Ocean Physics & Climate Change 
      • Geological/Environmental Mapping Project
      • Marine Geology
      • Seismology I 
      • Metamorphism and Metamorphic Processes
      • Tectonic Geomorphology

      Term 1 & 2:

      • Geosciences Report

      Term 2:

      • Crustal Dynamics, Mountain Building & Basin Evolution
      • Earth Resources & Sustainability
      • Geodynamics and Global Tectonics
      • Groundwater Science 
      • Seismology II
      • Advanced Geochemistry
      • Statistics for Geoscientists
      • Environmental Consequences of Human Activity

      Fieldwork:

      • South-East Spain

      Year 4

      Optional modules

      Term 1:

      • Biodiversity & Macroevolutionary Patterns
      • Ocean Physics & Climate Change 
      • Geological/Environmental Mapping Project
      • Marine Geology
      • Seismology I 
      • Metamorphism and Metamorphic Processes
      • Tectonic Geomorphology

      Term 1 & 2:

      • Geosciences Report

      Term 2:

      • Crustal Dynamics, Mountain Building & Basin Evolution
      • Earth Resources & Sustainability
      • Geodynamics and Global Tectonics
      • Groundwater Science 
      • Seismology II
      • Advanced Geochemistry
      • Statistics for Geoscientists
      • Environmental Consequences of Human Activity

      Fieldwork:

      • South-East Spain

      Your Learning


      We use a mixture of lectures, practical classes, field courses, directed reading, problem-orientated learning, private study and tutorials to enable you to gain the theoretical knowledge and practical skills demanded by the programme, as well as to develop key transferable skills such as critical analysis, report writing, team working and organisational skills.

      Assessment

      You will be assessed by a combination of written examinations, practical examinations, coursework, independent project reports and an oral examination.

      You will be assessed by a combination of written examinations, practical examinations, coursework, independent project reports and an oral examination.