Geology (Bsc): 6-Year, Part-Time Evening/Distance Learning
Bachelor's degree
In London
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
London
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Duration
6 Years
Many of the major challenges facing our planet, such as climate change, future energy production or living with natural hazards, require a thorough understanding of how the Earth has behaved in the past and how it works today. Our accredited BSc Geology degree provides all the key skills you need to understand the inner workings of our planet. You will study subjects ranging from geophysics and palaeontology through to volcanology and sedimentology. You will develop skills in the manipulation of scientific data, critical assessment of scientific hypotheses and experience actual scientific research during project work.
Our teaching philosophy is based around flexibility, allowing you to fit the degree around your lifestyle. We embrace new technology and methods to make our degrees accessible to all and have been running remote as well as face-to-face lectures for more than 20 years. This means you can attend classes with our internationally distinguished researchers in our world-class laboratories in London or you can watch live streams/recorded lectures at home using our cutting-edge online teaching platform. You are free to mix both these methods to find the best balance for you.
We are one of the few departments that meets the Geological Society of London recommendation of a minimum 64 days' fieldwork in a BSc programme and the only one that allows this through online learning. Each year you attend a major residential field course of 10-14 days, cementing your theoretical skills with more practical experience. Currently, we take students to Pembrokeshire (Year 1), North-West Scotland or Greece (Year 2) and Morocco (Year 3). You may also attend weekend field classes and will undertake a substantial amount of field research on your own in the latter years of the degree.
This course is also for full-time evening study over three years and part-time evening study over four years.
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About this course
Graduates can pursue careers in the oil, mineral and groundwater industries, academia or geology. This degree may also be useful in becoming an engineering geologist, geochemist, higher education lecturer, geophysicist or hydrogeologist.
We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.
We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.
Awarding Body
University of London
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Subjects
- Planetary Science
- Computing
- Access
- Geology
- Geophysics
- Sedimentology
- Materials
- Global
- Project
- Part Time
- Full Time
- Accredited
Course programme
You take compulsory modules in each year, choose three option modules in Year 5, and choose from either a map and thesis or a project in Year 6, providing scope for you to pursue your particular academic interests while being supervised by specialists in your chosen field.
You may also take modules in other subjects, chosen to complement your geological studies or to broaden your scientific background and skills.
You also complete four 10-day Easter field classes, which will be assessed.
YEAR 1
- Earth's Interior Geology
- Foundations of Mineralogy
- Introduction to Geochemistry
- Methods in Earth and Planetary Science
- Assessed Field Techniques 1
- Earth History
- Earth's Surface Geology
- Invertebrate Palaeontology
- Igneous Petrology
- Metamorphic Petrology
- Scientific Computing and Data Modelling
- Structural Geology I
- Assessed Field Techniques 2
- Geophysics
- Global Tectonics
- Principles of Sedimentology
- Assessed Field Techniques 3
- Map and Thesis
- Project BSc Geology
- Earth's Resources and Raw Materials
- Exploration and Modelling of Planetary Interiors
- Geological Hazards
- Metamorphic Processes
- Palaeoclimatology
- Palaeoecology
- Planetary and Environmental Isotopes
- Structural Geology II
- Vertebrate Palaeontology
- Volcanism in the Solar System
Additional information
Geology (Bsc): 6-Year, Part-Time Evening/Distance Learning