Module Identifier EA21720  
Module Title FIELDWORK FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCE  
Academic Year 2001/2002  
Co-ordinator Professor Alex Maltman  
Semester Semester 2 (Taught over 2 semesters)  
Pre-Requisite Only available to 2nd year Environmental Earth Science students  
Course delivery Seminars / Tutorials   10 in-term tutorials  
  Practicals / Field Days   At least 12 days fieldwork  
Assessment Presentation   Oral presentations.   10%  
  Continuous assessment   Tutorials.   20%  
  Report   Written reports.   50%  
  Course work   Fieldwork.   5%  
  Course work   Notebooks.   15%  
  Resit assessment   Failed work can be resubmitted, but not if the failure is due to unauthorized absence from the course or to work not being handed in.    

Brief description


This module centres on two field courses: one normally held during the September preceding 2nd year studies, and emphasising field techniques, the other held during the Easter vacation, and aimed at broadening the student's experience of field-based issues relevant to the Environmental Earth Science course. The module includes tutorial classes, and other meetings ancillary to the fieldwork.

Learning outcomes


On completion of this module, students should have acquired greater expertise in the basic field and communication skills introduced in the first-year course, together with additional skills such as field, graphical, sampling, and geophysical methods, the production of geological maps, and a greater breadth of field experience.

Module objectives / Learning outcomes


On completion of the module, students should: