Geology and Physics

About this programme

Geology offers you the chance to find out how the Earth works and when you combine Physics with this subject you get a real sense of energy and matter and their interaction. Joint degree programme combining approximately 50% Geology and 50% Physics courses of study. The University of Aberdeen is delighted to offer eligible self-funded international on-campus undergraduate students a £6,000 scholarship for every year of their programme. This course, which is prescribed for level 1 undergraduate students and articulating students who are in their first year at the University, is studied entirely online, takes approximately 2-3 hours to complete and can be taken in one sitting, or spread across the first 4 weeks of term. Topics include University orientation overview, equality & diversity, MySkills, health, safety and cyber security, and academic integrity. Successful completion of this course will be recorded on your Transcript as ‘Achieved’. Our Earth is a dynamic and formidable planet. In this course we travel through time and space to understand where we came from, how the Earth works at all scales (inside and out), what options there are for sustainable energy and also some advice on where not to go on holiday. Join us on a 4.5 billion year journey! Physics is the most fundamental of the sciences, and if we wish to better understand the nature and behaviour of the Universe, it is perhaps the best place to start. This course introduces the basic topics of Physics, from the sub-microscopic scale of electrons and atoms, to the orbits of the planets and stars, to the c