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BA (Hons)
Undergraduate degree - single honours
We accept a wide range of qualifications for entry to our undergraduate programmes. The main ones are listed under 'Typical offers' in the main column below. For combined courses, please check both subjects. If your qualification is not listed, please email admissions@bathspa.ac.uk with your specific details.
Our innovative Environment, Politics and Philosophy course is specially designed to enable you to apply a broad understanding of political and philosophical ideas to current environmental challenges.
By exploring fundamental questions about how we live and work in the present, our course will develop your skills in critical thinking, project design and implementation, advocacy, activism and communication.
We know that we’re facing acute environmental challenges, and if we want to address them, we need to change the ways that we think and behave now.
We also know that environmental science, on its own, is only part of the answer – that solutions also lie in understanding how we think, how we respond emotionally to the world around us, and how we see ourselves within it.
Drawing on a wide range of subjects and disciplines in the Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences, our Environment, Politics and Philosophy degree places the environment at the heart of what you'll study, as well as forming the basis for the practical projects you might undertake.
Year one
Introductions and foundations: ask questions, challenge your own assumptions, interrogate evidence, data and opinions. You’ll develop your understanding of the connections between different ways of thinking about environmental issues, by following a broad curriculum.
Year two
Practical, applied, relevant: this year is where you will deepen your understanding of philosophical approaches to ecology and the politics of social change. You’ll gain professional skills as you apply your knowledge and understanding to a defined problem or issue.
Year three
Achievement, consolidation, creativity: your final project in the third year brings all this together. You’ll identify your own area of study, develop your proposal and put it into practice. This might be an extended piece of academic writing, a pitch to a local employer, a community project or the creation of digital resources.
We’ll assess your progress through a variety of coursework tasks including:
You'll be taught through a mix of seminars, workshops and lectures. You'll learn in small groups, with as many opportunities to work outside the seminar room as possible.
This course offers or includes the following modules. The modules you take will depend on your pathway or course combination (if applicable) as well as any optional or open modules chosen. Please check the programme document for more information.
We'll encourage you to work outside of the seminar room as much as possible, through fieldwork, projects with our industry partners, placements and internships.
We'll work with you to develop your professional skills and to identify ways of applying them externally – to roles that are current in an ever-changing work landscape.
Our focus is on providing the best possible in-person experience for you and your peers whilst maintaining the most successful aspects of online delivery that we know will benefit your learning. Learn more by reading our programme delivery statement.
This optional placement year provides you with the opportunity to identify, apply for and secure professional experience, normally comprising one to three placements over a minimum of nine months. Successful completion of this module will demonstrate your ability to secure and sustain graduate-level employment.
By completing the module, you'll be entitled to the addition of 'with Professional Placement Year' to your degree title.
Before your Professional Placement Year, you'll work to secure your placement, constructing a development plan with your module leader and your placement coordinator from our Careers and Employability team.
On your return to University for your final year, you'll submit your Placement Portfolio, detailing your development on your placement.
The course is based at our Newton Park campus, which combines outstanding modern facilities with a beautiful setting.
The Library provides many core resources, both in print and online. We draw on a wide range of resources, and encourage the use – and creation – of different materials.
You'll have access to other excellent facilities including:
Please note: Students from the EU, EEA and Switzerland are not generally eligible for the UK (Home) fee status. Please refer to the international student rate. Irish citizens and those granted Settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme are eligible for UK (Home) fee status. There are also other circumstances where this may apply: See UKCISA for more information.
Year 1 | £9,250 |
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Year 1 | £4,625 |
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Year 1 | £14,400 |
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During the placement year, the fee is reduced to 20% of the full time fee. Otherwise, fees are the same as for full time study. This applies to UK, EU and International students.
We're looking for students with a questioning approach to world problems and their potential solutions.
You'll need energy and determination – never settling for the conventional response or clichéd thinking.
We want applicants who want to challenge us and themselves to think differently and do better.
We accept a wide range of qualifications for entry to our undergraduate programmes. The main ones are listed below:
English Language Requirements for International and EU Applicants
IELTS 6.0 - for visa nationals, with a minimum score of IELTS 5.5 in each element.
Course enquiries
For further information about the programme or entry requirements, please email us at admissions@bathspa.ac.uk.
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Course leader: Dr Rupert Alcock
Email: r.alcock@bathspac.uk
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