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BSc Sustainability and Environmental Management

Year 1

(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)

Learning outcomes

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

- Demonstrate a familiarity with the basic concepts of sustainable development and environmental management, supported by case-studies and research examples from the social sciences.
- Demonstrate research skills in environmental social sciences and techniques in environmental science.
- Use basic generic and subject specific intellectual qualities i.e. be able to communicate the results of their work; present a structured and coherent simple argument; be able to critically interpret and evaluate the underlying concepts and principles from both the natural and social sciences.
- Demonstrate learning of basic evaluation of data (also covered in year 2).
- Demonstrate an ability to evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to environmental problems from both the natural and social sciences, with the use of examples from research.
- Understand the keys to becoming an independent learner.
- Demonstrate disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge and awareness.
- Develop greater awareness of opportunities for personal and career development



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 including quantitative and qualitative skills, the ability to apply a range of methods to solve problems and communicate in written form and work as part of a team;
- Skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility including independent study, time management and organisational skills and the ability to identify and work towards targets.

Assessment

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

- demonstrating the knowledge and application of standard concepts, information and techniques relevant to the disciplines of environmental science and the environmental social sciences;
- work that covers a restricted area of the disciplines but that also begins to develop interdisciplinary skills;
- demonstrating emerging abilities, skills and competencies;
- Assessments focus on knowledge through in-class assessment (worksheets) and performance in exams and essays at level 1

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