B.Sc. Environmental Sciences (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Oxford

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Oxford

This broad-based Environmental Sciences course at Oxford Brookes University explores the nature of natural environmental processes, the role of living things, and the impact and management of human activities. It provides an understanding of the science that explains how the world works, how environmental challenges arise and how we can address them.

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Oxford (Oxfordshire)
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Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane, OX3 0BP

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  • Climate Change
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Course programme

Course Content

Studying environmental sciences involves understanding the science that explains how the world works, how environmental challenges arise as a result of human activities (and sometimes natural processes) and how we can address them.

Subject matter is topical, absorbing and wide-ranging. Teaching is supported strongly by both practical work and fieldwork, enabling you to develop the field skills required by the sector. There are field courses in the Cévennes (in southern France) and Devon, and an opportunity to gain real-life experience of environmental consultancy or other work experience.

This course is broad-based with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary nature of environmental sciences, so that environmental challenges (such as climate change, desertification and loss of biodiversity) may be understood and interpreted within the context of the underlying natural processes.

In Year 1, the core modules will introduce you to some of the earth's natural systems. In particular, you will learn about the diversity of living things, their relationships with the environment and their significance in terms of the cycling of substances on local and global scales. You will also cover environmental geography and environmental sustainability. In addition there are modules that give you a good science grounding and help you with the quantitative features of a science course.

A feature of your first year is a series of tutorials with your academic adviser (a member of the teaching staff who is responsible for overseeing your academic progress). Tutorials are designed to help you to adjust to academic life at university and establish good study habits.

Areas of particular interest that you can follow in Years 2 and 3 include wildlife conservation, animal behaviour, climate change, environmental management, geoarchaeology, ethics and threatened species.

Study modules

As courses are reviewed regularly, the module list you choose from may vary from that shown below.

Module titles marked with * in the lists below are those that need to be taken in order to benefit from accreditation by CIEEM (see 'Why choose this course?', above).

Module titles in bold are compulsory core modules.

Year 1
  • Biodiversity (double)*
  • Chemistry Principles and the Environment*
  • Field Course: Identification and Methodology*
  • Introduction to Environmental Geography
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Science by Number: Applications for Biology and Environmental Sciences*
  • Science in Practice: Current Topics in Biology and Environmental Sciences*.
Years 2 and 3
  • Advanced Topics in Wildlife Conservation*
  • Animal Behaviour*
  • Enterprise Skills for Life Scientists
  • Environmental Change: Fieldwork and Research (double)*
  • Environmental Consultancy
  • Environmental Decision Making
  • Environmental Hazard Management
  • Environmental Processes, Pollution and Climate Change (double)*
  • Field Course: Surveys and Licensing*
  • Geoarchaelogy
  • Geographical Information Systems
  • Independent Study in Life Sciences*
  • Plant Science*
  • Project (double)*
  • Research Methods for Biology and Environmental Sciences*
  • Science and Humanity*
  • Special Study in Life Sciences
  • The Ethical Geographer (double)
  • Threatened Species*
  • Work Experience

B.Sc. Environmental Sciences (Hons)

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