Geology (Graduate Certificate with Distance Learning option) - 2013/2014 entry

Geology is an area of active research across a wide range of sub-disciplines. Through our modular course structure and use of web-based material for distance learning, we aim to provide up-to-date reviews of research topics across most aspects of the earth and planetary sciences.

• Can be used as a qualifying year for MRes or PhD study.
• Offered as part-time study at Birkbeck or you can study by distance learning, wherever you are in the world (find out more about studying our distance learning courses).
• Opportunity to take part in field classes to put your skills into practice (find out more about past fieldwork outings here).
• Forms part of the UCL–Birkbeck Research School of Earth Sciences, facilitating access to a wide range of research resources and expertise.

This is a two-year course and you will need to gain 60 credit points. This will normally include four 15-credit modules. Please note that advanced modules are usually taught in alternate years and will not be available every year. 

You can choose three 15-credit modules taken from Years 3 and 4 of the BSc Geology degree.

Option modules include:

• Advanced Palaeontology
• Global Tectonics
• Magmatic Processes
• Volcanism in the Solar System.

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences is housed with the University College London (UCL) Department of Earth Sciences. Together, the two departments form the UCL–Birkbeck Research School of Earth Sciences. The Research School offers excellent facilities for research in environmental geology and planetary geology, as well as traditional geological and geophysical research.

Find out more about our research facilities.

We offer an MRes/Postgraduate Diploma in Earth Sciences.

Graduates go on to careers as geologists or in industry, engineering, surveying and education.

• We suggest you apply as early as possible.
• Interviews by arrangement.