About Fdsc Environment And Sustainable Energy in University of Suffolk

Love nature? Care about the future? Concerned about the fate of the Earth and humanity? Interested in sustainability? Want to know more about renewable energy? Want to gain practical employability skills? If you answered yes to any of these, this is the course for you.

Climate, energy, resource and ecological uncertainty define the beginning of the 21st century. The FdSc in Environment and Sustainable Energy is a unique and multi-disciplinary programme aimed at individuals with an strong interest in the environment, conservation and sustainability science, but with a desire to investigate and understand the carbon economy, climate change, non-carbon and renewable technologies, and the interactions and impacts these have on the climate, ecosystems, ecology, wildlife and human populations.

Furthermore the course offers students the opportunity to develop the employability skill-sets not normally available until higher level study; including GIS (Geographic Information Systems and Science), Data Analysis and Statistics, NGO practice and management in a unique collaboration with the World Land Trust and the opportunity to investigate the feasibility of non-carbon alternatives to meet current and future energy needs. Furthermore we are offering the chance to obtain industry skills like rope access and sea survival, which are transferable across the environmental and energy sectors.

No other programme in the UK at this level is likely to offer this blend of subjects and practical skills. The course was designed with the view to producing graduates that are multi-skilled and employable from the moment they complete the course, but with the knowledge to move onto higher level study, with the flexibility to allow a focusing of specialism and to keep pace with an ever changing employability market.

Career opportunities

The unique and multi-disciplinary nature of this programme ensures that applicants completing the course will be able to access a multitude of career pathways within the environmental, sustainability and energy/environment interface both in the UK and Overseas depending upon their particular interest.

Examples include but are not limited to, Conservation Charities and Trusts, Environmental, Socioeconomic, Ethical and Activist NGOs, Entry level Data analytics and GIS roles in any industry. Environmental, Social and Energy Education Charities and Trusts, Entry level Offshore Environmental Surveying. Environmental/Energy Research, Sustainability, Social and Environmental Justice Bodies and Charities, Environment Agency, Local Council (Environment, Energy and Social), Teaching.

Entry requirements

• IELTS 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in all components) where English is not the students' first language.