Environmental Geoscience Skills EARTH4096

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: School of Geographical and Earth Sciences
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 4 (SCQF level 10)
  • Typically Offered: Full Year
  • Available to Visiting Students: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

To develop a wide range of practical skills centred around the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and visualisation of environmental geoscience data, and develop academic and professional skills.

Timetable

One class per week for 5 weeks (held as 3-hour workshop). Residential field class and day field classes.

Requirements of Entry

Normally completion of all credit-bearing courses from Earth Science Level 2 at an average Grade C3 or better, achieving at least a Grade of D3 in each individual course and attendance at the residential field class.

Excluded Courses

GEOG4126 - Landscape Evolution

EARTH4077 - Quaternary Geoscience

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

Portfolio of field-based activities and report (100%)

Are reassessment opportunities available for all summative assessments? Not applicable for Honours courses

Reassessments are normally available for all courses, except those which contribute to the Honours classification. Where, exceptionally, reassessment on Honours courses is required to satisfy professional/accreditation requirements, only the overall course grade achieved at the first attempt will contribute to the Honours classification. For non-Honours courses, students are offered reassessment in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students and grade C3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some coursework items, in which case the mark achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions for this course are described below. 

Course Aims

The aim of this course is for students to develop a range of professional and practical skills necessary to ethically gather, manage, synthesise, and evaluate environmental geoscience information, with particular emphasis on literature engagement, field-centred learning, map interpretation/environmental statistics, and communication.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Process and interpret environmental geoscience data using a variety of field methods

■ Critically evaluate environmental geoscience data and synthesise these data

■ Critically evaluate and synthesise academic and professional literature

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.