Environmental Science - BSc (Hons)

University of Leicester

As an Environmental Scientist, you will investigate the most pressing global and environmental challenges of our time. You will study a diverse range of topics, delivered by staff from Geography, Geoscience and Biological Sciences. Key topics include climate change, conservation, ecology, sustainable development and natural resources. You will gain key skills for monitoring environmental processes, mapping and recording biodiversity and ecological change, and managing the critical environmental challenges faced by society. This degree provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the Earth, its living systems and the complexity of environmental-societal interactions. Environmental science students develop a robust understanding of the science underpinning the major environmental and ecological challenges of the twenty-first century, such as climate change, pollution, conservation and natural resource management. They also gain key practical laboratory and field skills for monitoring ecological processes and environment change Drawing on material from Physical and Human Geography, Geosciences and Biological Sciences, students construct a degree around their own specialisms and interests, within an overall Environmental Science umbrella. This is supported by the development of core competencies in laboratory, field and IT methods. Throughout, this course contains options for UK and international residential fieldwork. This new degree is designed to provide students with the skills to tackle the full scope the environmental challenges we face, and contains extensive optionality.