Understand our natural world, explore environmental conflicts and issues, study society's impact on the environment and discover sustainable solutions. Our Environmental Science programme is a degree for the future. You'll learn through a combination of lectures, tutorials, practicals and free field trips in the UK and abroad. Our classes are small allowing you to engage with your tutors who are experts in their field. Their cutting-edge research informs the course design and gives you the opportunity to experience environmental science in context and as a career. Why this BSc This programme is constructed around the concept that sustainability is one of the most important concerns of contemporary society. You will learn about the underlying causes of environmental problems and will be presented with possible solutions from a range of scientific, technological and societal perspectives. You should apply for this programme if you are interested in: Developing new knowledge through cutting-edge teaching that draws on world-leading research on major global and local issues around climate change, pollution, ecology, conservation, and the environmental pressures of living and working non-urban environments Developing a broad range of transferable skills that employers value, including numeracy and statistics, literacy and communication, project design and management, research and teamwork. The aims of the programme are: To give you an understanding of environmental systems and how humans interact with them To explore the importance of sustainability and science in contemporary society To produce graduates with a specialist perspective in natural, physical or social environmental science.

Graduates have opportunities in environmental and land management, conservation and heritage management, waste management, local government, environment agencies, ecology and biodiversity, overseas development, urban planning and natural resource management.