MSci Exploration Geology
Entry requirements
A level: ABB (with 1 science subject) or BBB (with 2 science subjects)
About this course
MSci in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, and Fieldwork. An optional industry placement year provides experience with exploration organisations. The final year centres on a supervised research dissertation in geoscience.
Modules
- World of Dynamic Environments
- Exploring Planet Earth
- Earth Science Fieldwork
- Earth Materials
- Life and Earth History
- GIS and Geological Maps (Geoscience)
- Applied Geological Fieldwork, Data Analysis and Professional Skills
- Sedimentary facies and environments
- Petrology and Volcanology
- Structural Geology and Geophysical Investigation
- Applied Environmental and Resource Geology
- Mineral Deposit Exploration and Evaluation
- Petroleum, Geoenergy and Basin Analysis
- Exploration Geology Dissertation
- Exploration Geology Placement Dissertation
- Advanced Geoscience Fieldwork
- Advanced Environmental Geology
- Geodynamics
- Hazards, Risk and Resilience
- Advanced petrology and geochemistry
- MSci Exploration Geology Research Dissertation
- Advanced Research Field Course
- Scanning the Research Horizon
- Business and the Environment
- Earth and Environmental System Modelling and Applications