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MSc Climate Change and Environmental PolicyNot recruiting from 2023/24

Year 1

(Award available for year: Master of Science)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme, students will be 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 different 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 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 and environmental policy;
- 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.

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