MSc Pollution & Environmental Control 12 months Postgraduate Programme By The University of Manchester |TopUniversities

MSc Pollution & Environmental Control

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Programme Duration

12 monthsProgramme duration

Main Subject Area

Environmental SciencesMain Subject Area

Programme overview

Main Subject

Environmental Sciences

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

The aim of this programme is to provide interdisciplinary foundation training for students from a natural science or engineering background intending to pursue a career, with or without further postgraduate training, in pollution control, environmental management or resource conservation. Students will learn about the nature of explanation in social science, natural science and engineering as applied to research or other investigative activity in pollution control and environmental management. This course provides generic and subject-specific training in research design and methods of data collection and analysis. It also provides subject-specific training in the social, economic, legal, planning and engineering dimensions of environmental protection and resource conservation tailored to the student's research interests and/or career needs. Students will learn about how natural systems function and the perturbations to those systems arising from human activity, again tailored to the student's research interests and/or career needs. The programme is designed to meet the growing need, internationally, for scientists who are able to understand and solve environmental problem; the programme consists of a 7-month taught component and a 5-month project; the taught component has a broad core covering concepts of pollution damage and economics, research methods and analytical techniques; students then specialise in: Environmental; earth, water or atmospheric sciences; engineering; regulation.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Environmental Sciences

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

The aim of this programme is to provide interdisciplinary foundation training for students from a natural science or engineering background intending to pursue a career, with or without further postgraduate training, in pollution control, environmental management or resource conservation. Students will learn about the nature of explanation in social science, natural science and engineering as applied to research or other investigative activity in pollution control and environmental management. This course provides generic and subject-specific training in research design and methods of data collection and analysis. It also provides subject-specific training in the social, economic, legal, planning and engineering dimensions of environmental protection and resource conservation tailored to the student's research interests and/or career needs. Students will learn about how natural systems function and the perturbations to those systems arising from human activity, again tailored to the student's research interests and/or career needs. The programme is designed to meet the growing need, internationally, for scientists who are able to understand and solve environmental problem; the programme consists of a 7-month taught component and a 5-month project; the taught component has a broad core covering concepts of pollution damage and economics, research methods and analytical techniques; students then specialise in: Environmental; earth, water or atmospheric sciences; engineering; regulation.

Admission Requirements

6+
3+

Jan-2000

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