BSC Environmental Earth Science [F64F]

Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020

Duration 4 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence Scholarship;

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (100 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS00420

Environmental Management

GS01120

Information in a Post-Truth World

GS09520

How to be a Student 1

Semester 2
GS00820

Understanding Change - Environment, People, Places

GS09320

How to be a Student 2

Year 1 Options

Choose 20 credits (one module)

Semester 2
GS09620

The "Othered" Migrant: Social Science Perspectives

GS09820

Representing the Other: Cultures and Clashes

Year 2 Core (120 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS11300

Fieldwork Skills

GS11520

How to Build a Planet

or
DA11520

Sut i Greu Planed

GS12500

An introduction to Earth Materials

GS13000

Researching the World: data collection and analysis

or
DA10300

Ymchwilio'r Byd: Casglu a Dadansoddi Data

Semester 2
GS10520

Earth Surface Environments

GS10720

Life on Earth

GS11320

Fieldwork Skills

GS12520

An introduction to Earth Materials

GS13020

Researching the World: data collection and analysis

or
DA10320

Ymchwilio'r Byd: Casglu a Dadansoddi Data

Part 2 Rules

Year 3 Core (100 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS20000

Research Design and Fieldwork Skills

GS20100

Geoscience Laboratory Techniques

GS20700

Environmental Geochemistry

GS22600

Geoscience for a Sustainable World

GS23600

Visualisation and Analysis of Geographical Data

Semester 2
GS20020

Research Design and Fieldwork Skills

GS20120

Geoscience Laboratory Techniques

GS20720

Environmental Geochemistry

GS22620

Geoscience for a Sustainable World

GS23620

Visualisation and Analysis of Geographical Data

Year 3 Options

students to choose one of the following modules or elect 20 credits from another suitable module in the department or elsewehere in the university

Semester 1
GS25520

Glacial and Fluvial Processes

GS27920

How to Build a Sustainable Society

Semester 2
GS23920

Quaternary Environmental Change

Final Year Core (80 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS30320

Biogeochemistry and Health

GS34000

Dissertation: Geography, Environmental Science, and Environmental Earth Science

or
DA34000

Traethawd Estynedig: Daearyddiaeth, Gwyddor yr Amgylchedd, a Gwyddor Daear yr Amgylchedd

Semester 2
GS34040

Dissertation: Geography, Environmental Science, and Environmental Earth Science

or
DA34040

Traethawd Estynedig: Daearyddiaeth, Gwyddor yr Amgylchedd, a Gwyddor Daear yr Amgylchedd

GS35320

Advanced Fieldwork Skills

Final Year Options

Choose 40 credits. 20 credits may be chosen from other appropriate modules in DGES or in the Univertsity.

Semester 1
GS30520

Debates in Climate Science

GS32020

Monitoring our Planet's Health from Space

Semester 2
BR35620

Environmental Regulation and Consultancy

DA31720

Rheoli'r Amgylchedd Gymreig

GS30420

Volcanic Activity: Hazards and Environmental Change

GS31120

Applied Environmental Management

GS33420

Glaciers and Ice Sheets