📖Program Curriculum
The module details given below are indicative they are intended to provide you with an idea of the range of subjects that are taught to our current students. The modules that will be available for you to study in future years are prone to change as we regularly review our teaching to ensure that it is up-to-date and informed by the latest research and teaching methods. The information presented is therefore not intended to be construed and/or relied upon as a definitive list of the modules available in any given year.
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Year one modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Minerals and Rocks
Earth Structure
Academic Professional and Fieldwork Skills
Stratigraphy and Palaeontology
Practical and Professional Chemistry Skills
Chemical Structure and Reactivity
OPTIONAL MODULES
The Earth System
Year two modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
Employability Training: Engaging with the Workplace
Field Skills
Reconstructing Past Environments
Molecular Chemistry and Reactions
Principles of Drug Design
Spectroscopy and Molecular Structure
Year three modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Independent Fieldwork Project - ISP
Mechanisms of Drug Action
Topics in Medicinal Chemistry
OPTIONAL MODULES
Natural Hazards
Economic Geology
Reservoir Geology and Geophysics
Structure and Geodynamics
Hydrological and Engineering Geology
Micropalaeontology: Principles and Applications
Advanced Topics in Sedimentology
Geological Communication Skills
Chemical Kinetics Photochemistry and Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms
Advanced Organic Chemistry
Chemistry/Medicinal Chemistry Research Project
Chemistry/Medicinal Chemistry Dissertation




