MGeol Geology with Palaeontology
Entry requirements
A level: AAB preferably including at least two from: Geology, Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Use of Maths, Computer Science, Environmental Science, or Geography
About this course
MGeol in Earth and Environmental Sciences, an integrated master's degree. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, and Fieldwork. A broad first year provides foundations across the geosciences, with field courses in Scotland, Spain, and Wales. The programme culminates in a dissertation and an independent field-based project.
Modules
- Hot Topics
- Research Project (Palaeobiology)
- Evolutionary Palaeobiology
- Advanced Field Course
- Anthropogenic Impact on the Urban Environment
- Igneous Petrogenesis
- Fundamentals of GIS
- R for Data Science
- Living the Anthropocene
- 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
- 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