MSc in Environmental Management

Expand your knowledge and skills needed for effective, informed and creative environmental management. You’ll examine current local and global concerns in areas such as environmental protection, legislation and policy, and natural resource management. Develop your skills in analysing the issues and improving environmental performance in all sectors.

Key features of the course

• Develops essential skills for successfully addressing environmental issues.
• A choice of professional or research routes.
• Provides a rigorous approach to solving complex real-world problems.

The learning outcomes of this qualification are described in four areas:

• Knowledge and understanding
• Cognitive skills
• Practical and professional skills
• Key skills

Course details

To gain this qualification, you need 180 credits as follows:

Stage 1 (120 credits)

60 credits from:

• Making environmental decisions (T891)
• Managing for sustainability (T867)

Or, subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued module T863

30 credits from:

• Environmental monitoring and protection (T868)

Or, subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued modules T878 and TD866

30 credits from:

• Advance your independent learning (YXM830)
• Environmental science challenges (S831) PLANNED
• Making strategy through systems thinking in practice (TB871)
• Managing change with systems thinking in practice (TB872)
• Project management (M815)
• Technology innovation management (TB801)

Or, subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued modules D837, S825, T848, T869, T878, T889, TU811, TU812, TD866, TU870 and TUXX870

Stage 2 (60 credits)

You’ll choose either:

• a research route
• a professional route

Research route

60 credits from:

• Research project (T802)

Professional route

60 credits from:

• The MSc professional project (T847)
• Plus another 30 credits from the Stage 1 modules

You should note that the University’s unique study rule applies to this qualification. This means that you must include at least 60 credits from OU modules that have not been counted in any other OU qualification that has previously been awarded to you. Note, in particular, you can only count the credit from one of the following modules towards a single qualification: Research project (T802) or The MSc professional project (T847).