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Year 1: A foundation in all aspects of geology, such as global processes, mineralogy, Earth history and the fossil record: all based on the assumption that students have no previous knowledge; fieldwork and essential practical skills such as microscopy. Year 2: has an emphasis on how geologists are involved in mineral exploration and exploitation, along with their role in construction programmes and water resource management; students follow a core geology syllabus with specialised modules; students also undertake an extensive fieldwork programme, both in the UK and abroad culminating in a fieldwork project. Years 3 and 4: module choices can lead to careers in the petroleum industry, the construction industry or in one of the many areas of environmental geology; project work is emphasised, providing an excellent training in research methods; in addition to lectures in year 4 students undertake a research project.
BBB - ABB (SQA Higher: BBBBC - ABBBB or SQA Advanced Higher: BBC - ABB)
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Mon 1st Oct 2012 |
3 years |
Full time |
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Birmingham, B15 2TT |
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£9000 per year |
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F611
University of Birmingham
Geology, Applied Geology, Engineering Geology, Minerals Processing / Technology
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2 Hotcourses user(s) found the following review helpful.There are very many enthusiastic lecturers and class teachers to help make this course interesting. the course iteself has many different modules, it has a statistic based module, a european module, "pure" maths , environmental economics, f...more
The course is easy as long as you put the work in. Lecture time is minimal, around 5 hours per week, so the majority of the work is done on your own, at home, preparing for the lectures. some basic knowledge of the subject is useful, but no...more
The course was demanding to say the least, encouraged self-study as well as attending more lectures than most courses, of which the majority were interesting and relevant to the course. I found that the lecturers were easy to approach and a...more
1 Hotcourses user(s) found the following review helpful.A well paced course with plenty of options to cater for all interests. Challenging, as you would expect, with a fantastic range of staff interests. Includes Russian language course - from non-speaker to fairly fluent reader in one year....more
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