MSc Climate Change and Environmental Policy(Part-Time)

Year 1

(Award available for year: Postgraduate Certificate)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme students should have shown evidence of being able to:

- demonstrate a broad interdisciplinary knowledge of the concepts, information and techniques relevant to climate change.
- engage in broader debates about environmental governance and public policies pertinent to climate change at international, national and local scales.
- use a variety of research methods and approaches that are pertinent to interdisciplinary and social scientific research on climate change.
- understand the influence of policy actors in collective environmental decisions, and the performance of different forms of policy intervention in different contexts.
- understand the methods used to evaluate climate change impacts, and develop the skills to produce adaptation strategies.
- take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships with others, particularly an ability to work in interdisciplinary teams on problems relating to climate change and sustainability.
- undertake further studies on climate change and related topics at a doctoral level.

Transferable (key) skills

The students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in industry or area of professional practice;
- evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
- self direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;
- independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
- critical engagement in the development of professional/ interdisciplinary boundaries and norms of scholarship on climate change.

Assessment

Achievement for the degree of Master in Climate Change and Environmental Policy will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:

- evidencing an ability to conduct independent in-depth interdisciplinary enquiry;
- demonstrating the ability to apply breadth of knowledge to the complex area of climate change;
- drawing on a range of perspectives on climate change;
- evaluating and criticising received opinion;
- making reasoned judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.

For a detailed description of assessment methods to be used in the programme, see the relevant module descriptors.