Environmental Sciences with a Foundation Year

Overview

How can we effectively address sustainability issues? What are the best options for a low carbon world? How is climate change affecting our natural world and how can we manage the effects? How can I contribute to a better future as a successful graduate?

By taking your Environmental Sciences with a Foundation Year with us, you’ll prepare yourself for a degree course that will help you explore these questions and more. You can tailor your foundation year to your interests and then transfer to ANY degree in the School of Environmental Sciences.In your foundation year, you may choose to study the physical, chemical, and biological surroundings, or opt for more human geography modules. In your foundation year, you’ll discover how natural systems of the environment are interlinked, and the effects of human influence on them as you learn about topics such as the wide range of natural systems on earth, the challenges for achieving a sustainable future, and the latest research into environmental changes and their management. In addition to exploring these questions, you’ll gain essential academic skills needed throughout your degree and beyond.

At UEA, you’ll conduct experiments in our state-of-the-art laboratories, and develop highly valued transferable skills in data analysis, spatial visualisation and science communication. Lectures will be taught by world-leading researchers, and you’ll have your curiosity stimulated by small-group discussions in seminars.

Once you’ve successfully completed your foundation year, you're guaranteed to transfer to the BSc Environmental Sciences. But we believe our students should have flexibility to shape their studies to their evolving skills and interests, thus our foundation year students have the option to transfer onto any degree in the school (Geography BA or BSc, Geology with Geography, Geophysics), depending on the optional modules selected and grades achieved.

Disclaimer

Course details are subject to change. You should always confirm the details on the provider's website: www.uea.ac.uk

During your foundation year, you will take compulsory modules and optional modules to ensure you can progress onto a range of Environmental Sciences degrees. You will take modules such as in Mathematics and Environmental Sciences and also have the option of taking Introductory Biology, Chemistry and Physics.