BSc Geology with Palaeontology
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBB preferably including at least two from: Geology, Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Use of Maths, Computer Science, Environmental Science, or Geography
About this course
BSc in Earth and Environmental Sciences, covering geology and palaeontology. Core topics include data analysis, research methods, and fieldwork. Students are assigned a specialist personal tutor from the start, with field trips to Scotland, Spain, and Wales across all years. The course includes an independent field-based project and a dissertation.
Modules
- Independent Field-Based Project
- Diversity and Evolution of Vertebrates
- The Forensic, Archaeological and Geological Application of Microfossils
- Dissertation
- Environmental Geoscience
- Igneous Petrogenesis
- Sustainability Enterprise Partnership Project
- Mineral Exploration, Economics and Sustainability
- Key Events in the Evolution of Planet Earth Viewed Through the Geological Lens of Wales - a field course
- Volcanology (Tenerife)
- Natural Hazards
- Stable Isotopes in the Environment
- 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
- Major Events in the History of Life
- Climate Change: Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation
- Data Analysis
- Structure and Tectonics
- Depositional Processes and Environments