Environmental Social Sciences - BA (Hons)

at University of Kent

Program structure

Stage 1

Compulsory modules currently include

• ANTS3080 - Academic and Research Skills (15 credits)

• GEOG3001 - People, Place and Environment (15 credits)

• GEOG3004 - Environmental Sustainability (15 credits)

• GEOG3005 - Geographical Patterns and Processes (15 credits)

• WCON3050 - Biodiversity (15 credits)

Optional modules may include

• ANTB3020 - Foundations of Biological Anthropology (30 credits)

• ANTB3160 - How Humans Evolved (15 credits)

• ANTS3010 - Introduction to Social Anthropology (30 credits)

• ECON3007 - Economics for Accounting (15 credits)

• ECON3130 - Economics for Business (15 credits)

• HECO3030 - Survey and Monitoring for Biodiversity (15 credits)

• WCON3101 - Skills for Wildlife Conservation and Management (15 credits)

• WCON3111 - Principles of Biogeography and Ecology (15 credits)

Stage 2

Compulsory modules currently include

• GEOG5001 - Methods and Field Work in Social Science (15 credits)

• GEOG5005 - Cities and the Climate Emergency (15 credits)

• WCON5460 - Conservation and Communities (15 credits)

Optional modules may include

• ANTS5960 - Critical Perspectives on Human Society (15 credits)

• ANTS5970 - Anthropology for a World in Crisis (15 credits)

• ANTS6210 - The Human-Environment Nexus: Contemporary Issues & Critical Approaches (15 credits)

• GEOG5003 - Sustainable Landscape Planning (15 credits)

• GEOG5004 - Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Principles and Methods (15 credits)

• GEOG5006 - Tourism and Conservation (15 credits)

• GEOG5007 - Geographies of Development and the Global South (15 credits)

• POLI5550 - The United Nations (15 credits)

• POLI6110 - Politics of the European Union (15 credits)

• SOCI5250 - Environmental Politics (15 credits)

• SOCI6700 - Kent Student Volunteering (15 credits)

• WCON5310 - Human Wildlife Conflict and Resource Competition (15 credits)

• WCON5450 - Conservation Policy and Practice (15 credits)

Stage 3

Compulsory modules currently include

• GEOG6004 - Geography and Environmental Social Science Research Project (30 credits)

Optional modules may include

• ANTB5560 - Human and Social Sciences in the Classroom (15 credits)

• ANTS5960 - Critical Perspectives on Human Society (15 credits)

• ANTS5970 - Anthropology for a World in Crisis (15 credits)

• ANTS6210 - The Human-Environment Nexus: Contemporary Issues & Critical Approaches (15 credits)

• GEOG5006 - Tourism and Conservation (15 credits)

• GEOG5007 - Geographies of Development and the Global South (15 credits)

• GEOG6200 - Contemporary Topics in Geography and Environment (15 credits)

• SOCI5250 - Environmental Politics (15 credits)

• SOCI6700 - Kent Student Volunteering (15 credits)

• WCON5010 - Climate Change and Conservation (15 credits)

• WCON5180 - Contemporary Conservation Science (15 credits)

• WCON5310 - Human Wildlife Conflict and Resource Competition (15 credits)

• WCON5380 - Data Analysis for Conservation Biologists (15 credits)

• WCON5450 - Conservation Policy and Practice (15 credits)

 Access to HE Diploma

The University welcomes applications from Access to Higher Education Diploma candidates for consideration. A typical offer may require you to obtain a proportion of Level 3 credits in relevant subjects at merit grade or above.

 BTEC Nationals

Distinction, Distinction, Merit

 International Baccalaureate

30 points overall or 15 points at HL

 International Foundation Programme

Pass all components of the University of Kent International Foundation Programme with a 60% overall average including 60% in LZ045 Life Sciences (1 & 2), 60% in LZ036 Academic Skills, and 50% in LZ013 Maths and Statistics (if you do not hold GCSE Maths at 4/C or equivalent).

 T level

The University will consider applicants holding T level qualifications in subjects closely aligned to the course.

• Home full-time£9250

• EU full-time£13000

• International full-time£17400

Graduate destinations  

Our recent graduates have found work in:

• ecological surveying

• habitat management

• species conservation

• environmental education

• conservation planning 

• conservation policy

• international consultancy

• community-based conservation projects