Undergraduate Geoscience 2026-2027

This course involves a one-day introductory local field trip for all first year single and joint honours students in the School of Geosciences. During the trip, students will be introduced to Geoscience as an integrated discipline that explores the relationships between nature and people. Lecturers from Archaeology, Geography and Geology will guide hands-on learning activities. The course is designed to be inclusive and provides an opportunity to meet fellow students and staff from across the school.

This course leads students toward the application of programming to particular problems in the Geosciences. Starting from basic principles of programming and moving towards specific focused solutions.

The aim of this course is to develop critical thinking, presentation and project design skills for research together with an enhancement of the necessary skills in numeracy, data manipulation and data interpretation. The course involves substantial workshop-based and student-led practical work designed to provide direct experience of these key components. Students will be introduced to the practical and theoretical aspects of various analytical techniques that are available in the School of Geosciences.

This course provides an opportunity to develop further an aspect or aspects of findings identified in the Geoscience Project A, or to produce a piece of independent and original research on an approved topic.  Advanced level knowledge of a sub-area of the geosciences will be developed through independent study supervised by a member of academic staff.