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MEnv, BSc Environmental Science (International)

Year 4

(Award available for year: Master of Envi & Bach of Sc)

Learning outcomes

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

- demonstrate in-depth, specialist knowledge and mastery of relevant concepts and information of environmental science;
- exhibit mastery in the exercise of generic and subject-specific intellectual abilities;
- demonstrate ability to plan, execute, and summarise the results of a research project chosen in conjunction with a member of staff;
- demonstrate independence and a degree of critical analysis in the research project;
- demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to their own research or advanced scholarship;
- take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships with others.

In conjunction with an academic in the School, the student will perform their own research. The research will likely include generating and/or analysing real research quality data. We anticipate the quality of the research to be of a level that may be presented at a national student research conference.

Students will have the opportunity to study real researched data involving environmental science.

Transferable (key) skills

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

- refinement of intellectual skills (for example, demonstrating a conceptual understanding and ability in the development and sustaining of an argument, and critically evaluating aspects of recent research and/or scholarship, making competent use of scholarly reviews and primary sources);
- practical skills (for example, the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations, and the execution of standard techniques of analysis and enquiry in an extended piece of work or project);
- good communication skills (for example, competency in communicating ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences);
- numeracy and C&IT skills (for example, able to analyse original data sets, or critically interpret complicated information);
- interpersonal/team working (for example, engaging with competence in critical group discussions);
- ability to plan and execute research tasks with some degree of supervision;
- personal and professional development (for example, the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility).

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 competence to apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material including possibly new research material;
- the competence to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in-depth research;
- work that is typically both evaluative and creative.

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