BSc (Hons) Environmental Sciences with a Foundation Year

Course 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 have 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.

Entry Requirements

Employability

Once you successfully complete your Foundation Year, you’ll transfer onto your choice of *degree within the School of Environmental Science. Throughout your studies, you're encouraged to take advantage of the career development support embedded in your course. We work closely with UEA’s Careers Service to help you meet employers (including alumni), explore career options, speak to industry mentors, and apply for internships, volunteering, and graduate jobs.

Our degrees lead to a wide range of careers, many of which involve making a difference to the environment, as a graduate employee or perhaps perusing a career as a researcher.

(*pre-requisite foundation year modules and grades)

Examples of careers that you could enter include:

• Environmental consultant
• Conservation officer
• Environmental analyst
• Renewable energy adviser
• Graduate sustainability consultant
• Graduate carbon management consultant

Discover more on our Careers webpages.