BSc Sustainability and Environmental Management

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Science)

Learning outcomes

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

- Understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed knowledge of sustainability and environmental management, informed by recent debate, research and scholarship across disciplines.
- Demonstrate professional competencies which will be informed by recent research/scholarship in sustainability and environmental management, some of which extend beyond the directly taught programme.
- Apply theory and methods from across the disciplines to a range of environmental problems and real life situations at and across local, regional and global scales.
- Demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development, sustaining and communication of an argument, using evidence integrated from a variety of sources.
- Critically reflect on and evaluate particular aspects of recent research and/or scholarship.
- Appreciate the complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge within and across disciplines; as well as on future trends.
- Be able to undertake a substantial piece of independent study and original research incorporating aspects of project design, execution and communication.
- Make use of independent learning capacity to develop a pathway for personal and professional development.
- Use disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge to conceive and develop sustainable solutions in different contexts.

Transferable (key) skills

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

- intellectual skills by demonstrating in-depth conceptual understanding that enables the development of an informed argument and the critical analysis of recent research and scholarship;
- practical skills including project design, data collection and analysis;
- communication skills in a range of formats, both written and verbal;
- interpersonal and team working skills;
- self-management and professional development skills;
- the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature.

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 broad range of concepts and ideas from a range of disciplines;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry in sustainability and environmental management;
- work that is typically both evaluative and creative;
- Assessments at level 3 include independent research, written skills, group work and verbal presentation skills