英国诺丁汉大学环境科学专业介绍(英文)

UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

PROGRAMME SPECIFICATION

A.Basic Information

1. Title Bachelor of Science with Honours Environmental Science

2. Course code TBA

3. School managing the course

School of Geography, University of Nottingham (UK) 50% and Division of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China (50%).

N.B. The School of Geography and the Division of Engineering at UNNC will be equal partners in terms of programme delivery. However, the School of Geography at UoN will have full ownership of and responsibility for m aintaining and updating the programme specification, including the foundation and qualifying year at UNNC. Of course, the common foundation year and autumn sem ester in the qualifying year for all courses at UNNC makes it necessary to work in partnership and consultation with the whole faculty and UNNC.

4. Type of course

∙Single subject

5. Mode of delivery

∙Full-tim e

∙International cam pus (Ningbo) and Nottingham (2+2)

6. Accrediting body

Not applicable

7. Relevant QAA subject benchmark(s)

Environmental Sciences (2007), Geography (2007)

B: General Information

Educational Aims

The aim of the Environmental Science degree is to m otivate students through the provision of a research-led teaching and learning programm e within a high quality, stim ulating and flexible yet structured course employing both traditional and modern teaching methods. The objective degree is to enable students: ∙To engage in the study of Environmental Science, environmental management and environmental sustainability issues,

∙To develop personal and inter-personal skill and the technical skills to synthesise descriptive and numeric al information in Environmental

Science

∙To develop the intellectual capacity to com e to sound and practi cal conclusions

∙To prepare for and to develop a career in environmental management and sustainability.

In addition the Environmental Science degree aim s to:

∙To enhance lifelong learning skills and personal development to contribute to Society at large

∙To provide a structured yet flexible programme reflected in optional pathways that allow students to tailor their programme of study to their

own specific interests and career aspirations

∙To provide a learning environment in which students are encouraged to engage in a reflective evaluation of their academic and personal progress

and development.

Outline Description of the Course

The Environmental Science programme is a full-tim e degree studied over four years leading to the award of a BA single honours degree.

The first year programm e is designed to provide a common foundation for all undergraduate degree courses offered by the University of Nottingham at Ningbo for students who have com pleted 11 or 12 years of secondary education in China. The developm ent of a common year 1 is a response to the particular characteristics of the m arket for higher education in China, where four year undergraduate programmes are the norm, and to the need for an initial intensive immersion in the English language in order to com pensate for the absence of the natural linguistic and cultural environment that they would encounter in daily life on an equivalent programme in the UK.

Year 1 consists of three teaching blocks of 10 weeks each. It is assum ed at the beginning of the year that:

♦Students will have a reasonable passive knowledge of the language system of English but not necessarily know how to apply it.

♦Students’ knowledge of the language system will be of a general rather than academic nature.

♦Students will be new to studying at HE level.

♦Students will be unfamiliar with British cultural and academ ic norms and expectations.

♦Students will be new to the academ ic subjects they will study at UNNC.

Year 1 aim s to take into account all of the above to provide a broad practical introduction and grounding to study for all students.

The non-credit bearing Block 1 is principally designed to develop language skills, activating knowledge of the English language that students m ay already have in a passive form, with particular focus on introducing them to tasks that will be of

use in later academic m odules. There are no academic modules in this block and no formal assessment. This is to allow students to overcom e any initial difficulties and settle into the new learning environment. Nevertheless, students will be asked to carry out similar activities to those that will be assessed in future modules, and formative feedback will be given. Student performance will be monitored informally by the tutors with the aim of offering further language

and/or academ ic support in Blocks 2 and 3 for students who need it.

Block 1 will begin with a one week orientation programme for students, followed by a nine week programme consisting of 18 - 20 hours of taught classes per week. The students will be tested for English language ability at the beginning of the block and grouped in class accordingly.

Blocks 2 and 3, each of ten weeks in duration, consist of a num ber of credit-bearing modules. All modules in year 1 are com pulsory and common to all degree