BSc Sustainability and Environmental Management

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- demonstrate a broader understanding of the concepts of sustainable development as they relate to human-environment interactions, integrating information and research from environmental science and environmental social science disciplines;
- display practical competencies in research and career development skills and both quantitative and qualitative research techniques;
- apply generic and subject specific intellectual qualities to standard situations outside the context in which they were originally studied through integrating lines of evidence from a range of sources to support findings and hypotheses;
- appreciate and employ interdisciplinary approaches and critically evaluate the appropriateness of different methods of enquiry in different contexts;
- use a range of techniques to initiate and undertake the collection and analysis of data and information;
- adjust to professional boundaries and explore interdisciplinary perspectives;
- effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to environmental sustainability and management, including ability to consider issues from a range of perspectives and draw on appropriate concepts from across disciplines in arriving at critical assessments;
- the ability to work as part of a team and communicate in both written and verbal forms;
- the ability to develop novel research ideas based on gap analysis of the literature;
- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility including adaptability, flexibility and decision making.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- demonstrating the ability to apply a range of interdisciplinary approaches to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
- work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;
- demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to sustainability and environmental management;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- Assessments shift focus onto report writing skills, with proposal writing, and verbal communication: