Comments about MSc-PgDip Sustainable Environmental Management - At the institution - Plymouth - Devon
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Objectives
This interdisciplinary programme offers a unique opportunity to study the theory and practice of sustainable environmental management, covering a diverse range of issues spanning the natural and social sciences. Its interactive and practically-focused approach provides a rigorous training in the legal, political and ethical dimensions of sustainability. The wide range of options also enables students to specialise in specific aspects of sustainable environmental management. Class-based teaching is combined with a range of fieldwork activites to provide an excellent foundation for professional careers in environmental consultancies, government agencies, research and a range of other organisations in the public and private sector.
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Entry requirements
A good degree or equivalent in a science subject. Applicants with no recent formal qualifications may be acceptable. Overseas students: IELTS 6.5 or equivalent. Applicants are encouraged to enquire about their suitability.
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Course description
Programme highlights
-Interdisciplinary programme linking natural and social science issues
-Teaching by active researchers with national and international environmental management experience
-Extensive links with professional organisations in the environmental sector
-Vocational opportunities via work-based learning and dissertation projects
-Links to the university"s Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Education for Sustainable Development
General programme structure
Terms 1 and 2 of the programme consist of nine taught modules, assessed by a combination of coursework and written examinations. Term 3 is dedicated to an independent dissertation project of your choice.
The programme is interdisciplinary, straddling the natural and social sciences and drawing on expertise from across the Faculties of Science and Social Science and Business. The teaching staff are all active researchers in their field and have wide national and international experience of environmental management issues. The School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental Sciences and the School of Geography also have strong links to outside organisations in environmental business.
Detailed programme structure
These taught modules can also be taken as part of the four-year NewRoutePhD in Geosciences.
Core modules
-Research project design, data collection, analysis and teamwork
-International environmental policymaking
-Environmental assessment and sustainability
-Sustainability: issues and debates.
Option modules include
-Environmental economics
-Integrated coastal zone management
-Marine policy and regulation
-Coastal ecosystem conservation
-Global environmental variability
-GIS and remote sensing
-Meteorology and climatology
-Land degradation
-Climate change: science and policy
-Science and the environment
-Watershed assessment and management
-Work based learning in sustainable environmental management
