Environmental Management – (M.Sc.)

Contents

The structure of the course is flexible and includes taught sessions through lectures, seminars, and tutorials, and fieldwork sessions. Elective modules, including opportunities for work-based learning and investigating current issues in environmental management, will allow you to build
a package that is relevant to your needs, interests and future career aspirations.

The MSc is assessed wholly through coursework, with no unseen examinations, and you will have the opportunity to tailor your research project to the research interests of the teaching staff.

The programme consists of 4 taught modules (2 compulsory, 2 elective) and a dissertation (final research project). You will need to complete a total of 120 credits from the taught phase and 60 credits from the research phase to give you a total of 180 credits for the award of MSc
Environmental Management.

Modules

The following modules are part of the taught phase and all worth 30 credits:

• Principles of Environmental Management (compulsory - 30 credits): You will discuss and critically review the principles of environmental management, including sustainability, and examine key decision-making tools in environmental management including environmental assessment, audit, and management systems. Local case studies will demonstrate the application of principles in practice.
• Research Skills for Environmental Management (compulsory - 30 credits): This module will enable you to develop the skills required to plan, undertake and communicate Masters level research. The transferable skills covered include, for example: experimental design and analysis, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), academic writing, oral presentation skills and project management.
• Nature Conservation Management (elective - 30 credits): This module will develop your skills in site survey (including species identification), evaluation and management planning for geo- and nature conservation. You will be required to present results of your own survey, site assessment and management proposals for a specified site. Fieldwork is normally residential and international.
• Coastal Management: Sustainability into Practice (elective - 30 credits): Fieldwork (possibly residential and international), review and discussion address the complexity of the coastal zone, providing a case study of sustainability in practice. From large-scale and long-term perspectives, techniques available to coastal managers working in diverse-stakeholder and multiple value environments will be explored.
• Current Issues in Environmental Management (elective - 30 credits)*: Through tutorial assistance, you are required to develop an agreed learning contract with respect to a current topic/issue in environmental management suitable for Masters level study, including appropriate aims, learning outcomes, learning methods, assessment details and marking criteria.
• Work-related Learning (elective - 30 credits)*: For this module you will be required to secure a work placement of significant length suitable for environmental management at Masters level, allowing substantial work experience and career skills development. A work-related learning contract is negotiated to suit the needs of the programme, the employer and the student.
• Dissertation / Research Project (compulsory - 60 credits): The research project involves the design, execution and evaluation of an approved research topic and the presentation of the research in the form of a dissertation, professional report or international journal article (for studies of publishable quality).

Note:

Fieldwork is an integral part of the MSc and there are some additional costs associated with these trips (not included in the fees). The fieldwork can be both local day trips and longer residential fieldwork depending on modules. As a guide, non-residential costs are of the order £10-15 per field visit (max.), with international residential costs of approx. £250 for 4-5 days.

* These modules are only available for study with prior approval from the Course Co-ordinator

Accreditation

Liverpool Hope University is a recognised body with degree awarding powers as sworn in by the UK Government.
Quality of UK universities is measured through the official Government agencies, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) which consistently judged Liverpool Hope University to be of highest quality.
Liverpool Hope University's Business School, that was ranked top quality, having secured a maximum excellent rating (24 out of 24) in the UK Governments QAA inspection.

In the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), which is the official evaluation of the quality of research undertaken within UK higher education institutions, subject areas of Theology & Religious Studies, and Social Work & Social Policy, included work which ranked as of 4-star ‘world leading’. The subject areas of Computer Science and Informatics, Psychology, Education, English, and Music included work which ranked as 3-star ‘internationally recognised’, as was Politics and International Studies (including submissions from Business) and Drama ranked as 2*. For information on Liverpool Hope University’s RAE submission, go to www.rae.ac.uk

Funding details

Liverpool Hope University's fees for international students are amongst the most competitive within the UK university sector.

For 2011/12 intake, international tuition fee for Environmental Management is £7,120.

With an Overseas Scholarship this is reduced to £6,120.

With an Overseas Scholarship and Early Payment Discount this is reduced to £5,408.