Programme structure: Environmental Geoscience (MSci) - what's running in 2020/21

Students will be offered a blended educational experience with a mix of in person and online teaching. The in person teaching will consist of small group work, laboratory practicals and field work/alternative activities. To achieve the intended learning outcomes across the programme and to satisfy any accreditation requirements, students will be expected to undertake some in person teaching. Where this is not possible, students will be asked to contact their School to discuss arrangements.

This Integrated Master's programme has been designated as type II: Advanced Study in accordance with the QAA descriptors for Master's programmes. Please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes for further information on this type of programme.

All units in this year are must pass. For the definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms from Annex 1 to the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Teaching Block
Numerical Methods and Programming	EASC20041	10	Mandatory	TB-4
Sedimentology	EASC20007	10	Mandatory	TB-2D
Environmental Geoscience Field Skills	EASC20018	10	Mandatory	AYEAR
Geobiology	EASC20024	10	Mandatory	TB-1B
Atmospheric Processes	EASC20027	10	Mandatory	TB-2D
Introduction to Field Mapping	EASC20029	10	Mandatory	AYEAR
Soils and the Critical Zone	EASC20037	10	Mandatory	TB-2D
Analytical Geochemistry	EASC20038	10	Mandatory	TB-2C
Applied Geophysics	EASC20042	10	Mandatory	TB-2C
Geochemistry 1	EASC20043	10	Mandatory	TB-1A
Mapping, Tectonics and Remote Sensing	EASC20045	20	Mandatory	TB-1
Diploma of Higher Education		120

Progression/award requirements

Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:

• 40 out of 100 – for level C/4, I/5 & H/6 units
• 50 out of 100 – for level M/7 units

For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.

For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.

Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.

Exit awards

All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.

• To be awarded a Diploma of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 240 credit points, of which at least 90 must be at level 5.
• To be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 120 credit points at level 4.

Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.

The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).

Additional progress information

Students not attaining at least 60% will be transferred onto the BSc programme