This degree offers you the chance to strengthen your skills, knowledge and confidence before you advance to stage one of your honours degree.Build a strong platform for success in your studies: the foundation year is invaluable if you are thinking of a career change or keen to explore a new subject area.Gain the skills, knowledge and confidence you need to complete this academically challenging and stimulating honours degree in four years.Explore hazards ranging from earthquakes to volcanic eruptions, coastal erosion to landslides, drought to flooding.Gain highly specialised skills and knowledge which will prepare you for careers which are critical to our collective global future.Benefit from a powerful combination of latest theories, practical work and field studies, with a strong emphasis on hands-on experience.Study amid some of the most outstanding geology and landscapes in the British Isles, with the Peak District National Park right on your doorstep.<br><br>Highly practical and industry-relevant, our BSc (Hons) Geology and Environmental Hazards with Foundation Year opens up many challenging and rewarding career opportunities worldwide. There are now a growing number of roles which involve planning for, mitigating and managing natural hazards as well as helping to reduce the impact of climate change, pollution and population pressure. However, this degree also equips you with invaluable transferable skills that can be used across many areas of employment.<br><br>By the time you graduate, you'll have developed a full range of professional skills, theoretical knowledge and practical experience to impress prospective employers. You'll also have the wide-ranging transferable skills, vision and self-reliance which will make you well suited to any organisation where environmental awareness and broad scientific knowledge are valued. Our graduates have gone on to secure posts in environmental consultancy, pollution control, geotechnical engineering and even the BBC's Natural History Unit.