Environmental Science

Course structure

• Before you start

  You may be required to complete an activity before you start in order to help introduce you to the subject. Check back in the summer term for more details.

• Course content

  Key areas of study include wildlife conservation, pollution, global climate change and sustainability. It bridges the gap between the science and humanities disciplines and combines well with subjects including biology and geography. You will examine why the conservation of life on Earth is important and efforts in key areas such as the UK, coral reefs, Antarctica and tropical rainforests. You will focus on the ecological relationships between organisms and their abiotic and biotic environment, unsustainable natural resources and our future energy needs, human exploitation and management of our physical resources, pollutants and environmental damage, food production and forestry systems and the factors controlling human population growth.

  You are also encouraged to supplement your programme with the Extended Project.

  Find out about The Extended Project

   

• Life after Henley

  A key subject for students planning to continue on to university to
  study subjects including geography, conservation, geology, ecology and
  environmental science at degree level.

  Last year students went on to various destinations including university places at Swansea, Portsmouth, South Wales, Sussex, Gloucestershire, Plymouth, Derby, Brighton and Wolverhampton.

  Alternatively, students may consider direct entry into related employment.