Geology courses

Honours degrees

• Also known as an undergraduate or bachelors degree.
• Internationally respected, universally understood.
• An essential requirement for many high-level jobs.
• Gain a thorough understanding of your subject – and the tools to investigate, think critically, form reasoned arguments, solve problems and communicate effectively in new contexts.
• Progress to higher level study, such as a postgraduate diploma or masters degree.

Diplomas of Higher Education

• Widely recognised qualification.
• Equivalent to the first two thirds of an honours degree.
• Enhance your professional and technical skills or extend your knowledge and understanding of a subject.
• Study for interest or career development.
• Top up to a full honours degree in just two years.

This type of course may be of particular interest if you’re living or working in Scotland.

Certificates of Higher Education

• Widely recognised qualification.
• Equivalent to the first third of an honours degree.
• Study for interest or career development.
• Shows that you can study successfully at university level.
• Count it towards further qualifications such as a foundation degree, DipHE or honours degree.

Modules

• Self-contained unit of teaching, learning and assessment.
• Combine modules towards OU qualifications, or study individually for interest or professional development.
• Credit in an appropriate subject is widely recognised by many other universities.
• Level of difficulty graded as Access or OU level 1, 2 and 3 (equivalent to FHEQ levels 4, 5 and 6, SCQF levels 7, 8, 9 and 10 respectively).