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This advanced environmental and energy studies MSc covers a range of
issues including:
•• Global Energy Demand: Resources and Environmental issues.
•• Renewable Energy Technologies
•• Urban Sustainability
•• Sustainability in Architecture: Light, Heat, Materials, Design
approaches
In collaboration with •• Environmental assessment: Methods, Case Studies and Intelligent
Buildings
•• Energy Distribution; Low Environmental Impact Housing, Carbon
trading
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You can also choose to do either CEM158 or CEM150 if not taken as the foundation module.
Principles of light: artificial and natural; Daylight factor; Sunlight and solar
CEM161: January
gain in buildings; Principles of Solar PV and Biomass
CEM166: April Society and Environment; Land use Planning, Environmental Impact
Assessment and Management; Transport issues. Post Occupancy Evaluation.
Photovoltaics, solar hot water, wind power, small scale biomass. Design
exercise: Students will collaborate on research and discussion of ideas,
CEM169: July and then, individually, produce a design of a renewable energy system for
a building, with discussion and justification of the decisions made in the
design.
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Structure
You can start in September or March, and do
eight ‘taught modules’ plus a thesis.
You do one compulsory foundation module,
plus any seven other modules. If you start in
September, the foundation module is CEM158;
if you start in March it will be CEM150. We
recommend that you do both September and
March.
The eight taught modules in total are taken over
1 year ‘full time’ or 2 years ‘part time’, and followed
by the thesis (5-6 months).
Stopping the clock
There is provision for ‘intermission’, ie stopping the
Each module consists, broadly, of reading lectures clock, for six months at a time, up to a total of two
and papers; interactive participation in practicals, years. There is also provision for adding extra months,
seminars and discussions on the Virtual Learning on payment of a small sum. The maximum time from
Environment; coursework: an essay or report and registration to the end of your studies is 6 years.
a presentation.
Thesis Tutorials
Students are free – indeed encouraged - to Tutorials are by e-mail, telephone or chat room.
choose thesis topics relevant and useful to their Students and tutors together decide on which type
professional lives. Many choose topics which will will be best. When you’d like a tutorial, or you have
facilitate later moves into other fields within their a specific query, you just email your tutor to arrange
jobs, and/or into consulting work. one. Do this before a problem becomes a crisis!
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By deadline, below.
Complete coursework required Submit following guidance given.
Completion of a module means that you submit the coursework for that module.
The submission date for each module’s coursework is as follows:
CEM159 (October),
Start date of CEM161 (January)
CEM160 (November)
CEM154 (June),
Start date of CEM158 (September)
CEM169 (July)
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Course timeline
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Support
You will be assigned a dedicated Distance Learning tutor at the start of the course who will provide academic
guidance and feedback on your work. For the thesis, you will have a thesis supervisor selected from the wider pool
of the Graduate School staff.
There are also two student support officers on hand to give advice on your routes through the course and to
deal with any administrative queries, ensuring a smooth path through the whole of the MSc from enrolment to
graduation.
Fees
Resident in UK/EU: £5900 from March 2011
A 5% discount is given if the total is paid in full at enrolment, by credit card
or draft on a UK bank.
There is also the possibility of arranging to pay quarterly, by Direct Debit
[i.e. £5900 / 4 or /8, one year / two years]; in this case the first payment is by
credit card or UK cheque, or other draft on a UK bank.
English language
(Applies if your education was not in UK, or conducted in English)
The basic English language requirement is that you must be able to understand and express
yourself in both written and spoken English. Some evidence, e.g. TOEFL at 550 or an IELTS
score of 6.0, may be required, but will be taken as read for the time being.