Environmental Monitoring, Modelling & Management

Course detail Description

The Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Management MSc course offers advanced-level core training in environmental modelling and monitoring, remote sensing and Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and in the research methods required to use them effectively.

You will examine how to assess the causes and consequences of environmental, climatic and land-use change, with the choice to follow a research pathway or a consultancy pathway. The two paths share key training elements but offer modules designed to support career development in two distinct spheres:

• The research path will link you with a departmental research group working on research aspects of environmental modelling and monitoring, and is designed explicitly for those going on to a career in research.
• The consultancy pathway focuses on the application of fundamental training for environmental management and is for those wanting to use their skills directly in environmental management.

The course is made up of optional and required modules. You will be expected to obtain the minimum of 180 credits to complete the course.

If you are studying full-time, you will complete the course in one year, from September to September. If you are studying part-time, your course will take two years to complete. You will take the combination of required and optional modules over this period of time, with the dissertation in your second year.

For those seeking a deeper understanding of environmental processes and techniques for managing environmental change. Provides advanced-level training in the application of environmental modelling and monitoring, remote sensing and geographical information systems (GIS) to environmental management and the prevention, mitigation or adaptation to environmental change.

Teaching

We will teach you through a combination of lectures and seminars, and you will typically have 20 hours of this per module. We also expect you to undertake 180 hours of independent study for each module. For your 12,000 word dissertation, we will provide four workshops and five hours of one-to-one supervision to complement your 587 hours of independent study. Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.

Assessment

Performance on taught modules in the Geography Department is normally assessed through essays and other written assignments, oral presentations, lab work and occasionally by examination, depending on the modules selected. All students also undertake a research-based dissertation of 12,000 words.

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Structure

Year 1

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling at least 180 credits.

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.

• Dissertation in Environmental Monitoring, Modelling & Management (60 credits)
• Methods for Environmental Research (20 credits)

Additionally, you are required to take 20 credits from one of the following pathways:

Research

• Environmental Research Design & Application (20 credits)

• Environmental Processes & Management (20 credits)

• Environmental Science & Policymaking (20 credits)

In addition you are required to take 60 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• Environmental Remote Sensing (20 credits)
• Modelling Environmental Change(20 credits)
• Monitoring Environmental Change (20 credits)
• Environmental GIS (20 credits)

You will take enough credits to bring your total for the degree to the minimum of 180 from a wide range of optional modules that may include:

• Any of the modules listed above.
• Any Level 7 (Master’s) modules offered in the Department of Geography.
• Up to 20 credits in Level 7 (Master’s) modules offered across the university, subject to approvals.