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)