BSc Geology with Foundation Year
Entry requirements
A level: BCC or points equivalent from your best three A-levels
About this course
BSc in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, and Fieldwork. The programme is accredited by the Geological Society, and all geology-focused degrees share common first-year modules. Students may transfer between the three-year BSc and four-year MGeol during the course.
Modules
- Fundamental Mathematics
- Scientific Computing
- Principles of Earth Science and Earth Systems
- Introductory Chemistry Practical
- Introductory Data Analysis
- Academic Support
- Introductory Earth and Environmental Science
- Independent Field-Based Project
- Dissertation
- Environmental Geoscience
- Diversity and Evolution of Vertebrates
- Crustal Dynamics
- Sustainability Enterprise Partnership Project
- Planetary Science
- The Forensic, Archaeological and Geological Application of Microfossils
- Mineral Exploration, Economics and Sustainability
- The Mining Lifecycle Field Course – Cornwall
- Key Events in the Evolution of Planet Earth Viewed Through the Geological Lens of Wales - a field course
- Volcanology (Tenerife)
- Mineral Resources for Net-Zero Carbon 2
- Stable Isotopes in the Environment
- Water Quality Processes and Management
- Tutorials
- Evolution of the Earth System
- Palaeobiology and the Stratigraphic Record
- Natural Resources and Energy for the 21st Century
- Geological Maps and Structures
- Introductory Field Course
- From Core to Crust
- Our Dynamic Planet
- Geological Fieldwork: Methods and Applications
- Mapping Earth’s History: structural and stratigraphic field techniques
- Magmatic and Metamorphic Processes
- Depositional Processes and Environments
- Introduction to Geochemistry
- Structure and Tectonics
- Climate Change: Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation
- Mineral Resources for Net-Zero Carbon 1
- Major Events in the History of Life