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BSc Environmental Earth Sciences
University of East Anglia (UEA)
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Course Summary
- Type: BSc
- Location: Norwich, United Kingdom
- Duration: 3 Years
- Deadline: 20-12-2013
Course Description
Environmental Earth Sciences takes an integrated approach to studying the solid Earth. There are no fixed boundaries between the solid Earth and its environment.Students explore the inter-relationships between the solid Earth and all aspects of its environment, including political, economic and social issues. Conventional subject boundaries are broken to give you an integrated education. You will use principles of geology, physical geography, chemistry, biology, maths and social science, to investigate how the solid Earth affects human society and how human society impacts on the solid Earth. Graduates in Environmental Earth Sciences from UEA are in great demand from industry because of the high esteem in which the School of Environmental Sciences is held in the wider geosciences community and for the levels of laboratory, field and transferable skills acquired during the course.
Because the degree programme is taught within the School of Environmental Sciences you will be able to choose a very flexible path of study. The degree programme is designed to give you a solid foundation to your chosen career. The first year ensures you have the necessary building blocks to choose effectively from the wide range of courses on offer in the second and third years. The first year will also introduce you to a range of subjects you are unlikely to have come across until now.

