Undergraduate Course: Frontiers in Earth Science (GESC11003)

Course Outline
School	School of Geosciences	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Year 5 Undergraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	This course will introduce students to current debates in the geosciences, presented through the medium of topical papers from high-impact, peer reviewed journals and by invited lecturers. Students will draw on, and reinforce, skills acquired during the Project Design and Literature Analysis course (GESC11001) to research wider areas of geoscience debate related to their individual research projects. This will allow students to place their own research into the much broader context of major research areas in the geosciences.
Course description	The Course Organiser will invite eight lecturers, depending on their research subject, to connect to the studentsż research interests. Schedule to be confirmed.

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 20, Fieldwork Hours 10, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 66 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Written Exam: 0%, Course Work: 100 %, Practical Exam: 0%. Assessed essay: topic to be selected by the student. Main emphasis should be on the future outlook of a certain research topic. Marks will be based on literature review, how research questions are phrased, and the essay structure.
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: The main learning outcome of this course is to understand the nature of the scientific debate as it applies within the observational sciences. By taking this course, students will develop a critical understanding of the principal theories and concepts of some key areas within geology and they will be able to summarise these arguments and present them in an appropriate fashion. Students will be given the opportunity to work with specialists in their particular field of research and will present a critical review of said field for the assessment and suggest how this field might advance in the future. Students will be able to critically identify professional level problems and issues and offer professional level interpretations.