Environment and Sustainability with Professional Placement Year

Course overview
People, society and governments are becoming increasingly aware of environmental problems, many of which are now becoming critical, such as a range of problems linked to climate change. In order to address these pressing issues, a framework of supporting policy, funding and hence employment, is developing, requiring graduates who have the right skills and knowledge in environmental sustainability, and who can make a difference after securing professional work in this sector.

The BSc/BA Environment and Sustainability will help students and to ‘make a difference’, giving them the contextual overview of key issues from the global to local scales, and examining the various factors at play and how these interact. In turn, the suite of modules will allow for a more detailed examination of specific aspects, with some flexibility for students to tailor their study towards their own areas of interest, helping bolster career pathways etc.
In the final year, students can choose either a BSc or BA award depending on which modules they select.
• The BSc award focuses on how all things environmental work and why, exploring the science, process and mechanisms behind this, optimizing sustainable management decisions.
• The BA award considers how environmental things work, but places emphasis on the role of society and people, policy and frameworks, and how each of these can act as drivers of change.

The Royal Agricultural University has a sustained and exemplary history of teaching students, dating back to 1845. The BSc/ BA Environment and Sustainability course benefits from this, particularly so from the land-based perspective where it is able to integrate important elements of agriculture, food production and retail into sustainable environmental management systems.

Work placement
In the third year, you will complete a 12-month period in the workplace. Not only could you find yourself working for prestigious companies in the UK or across the world, you will develop confidence and industry contacts

For information about course structure and the modules you will be studying, please visit the RAU course webpage: https://www.rau.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/bsc-ba-environment-sustainability-placement

A range of assessment techniques are applied throughout the programme to test learning outcomes of each module. These will be clearly identified on the VLE/ Gateway pages for each module, and could include:

• Essays 
• Reports – either academic research or professional 
• Case studies 
• Group work exercises 
• Oral presentations 
• In-class / in-lab / in field tests – e.g. multiple choice, short answer

•   Exams
  

• Skills observation 
• Peer review 
• Professional practice report 
• Subject specific exercise 
• Academic poster 
• Research proposal 
• Dissertation