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- Environmental Geoscience with a Year in Industry BSc (Hons)
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Qualification
Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
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Location
Singleton Park Campus
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
29-SEP-25
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Duration
4 Years
Course summary
From investigating the physical processes that shape our planet, to the environmental changes that have occurred over hundreds of millions of years, environmental geoscience is a fascinating and highly topical subject. If you're particularly focused on enhancing your employability and have a keen interest in physical geography and geology, this scheme will equip you with highly desirable practical, numerical and computational skills for a wide range of careers. These include regional planning, environmental management, local authority work, financial planning, computing or business and retail management. Our strong relationships with industry enable us to provide great work experience opportunities to enhance your employability. We help you find a work placement and support you during year year in industry. We are ideally placed to offer exceptional fieldwork opportunities. Just a short drive from the UK's first designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Gower Peninsula, you will have easy access to Bannau Brycheiniog, rural west Wales and the urban and industrial landscapes of South Wales. You'll also have an opportunity to carry out fieldwork overseas in Austria, Malaysian Borneo, Mallorca or Vancouver. Through this degree, you will explore cutting-edge issues such as understanding and living with natural hazards, glacial environments and processes and restructuring quaternary environmental change. You'll also get the chance to develop some valuable transferable work skills in your penultimate year of study through an industrial placement.You will be taught in our £4.2m state-of-the-art Science laboratories, in a vibrant and friendly department. You'll have access to our high-performance computer lab for processing and interpreting satellite Earth observation and GIS data, a stable isotope ratio mass spectrometer, a climatic test chamber, mineral magnetic characterisation equipment and an automatic organic carbon analyser.You will learn from internationally renowned academics including Professor Tavi Murray, the first woman to be awarded Polar Medal by HM Queen, Professor Adrian Luckman, who has achieved global media coverage for his climate change research, Professor Peter North, who received international coverage of his work with NASA, and Professor Siwan Davies, whose work focuses on the dramatic changes to our climate. F
We guarantee that you will be made a conditional offer for a course at Swansea University. Subject requirements will apply. Please come along to our next Open Day or get in touch for further information.Book an Open Day here: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/our-open-days/
Application deadline
29 January
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