Summer Vacation Project - 2019 entry

The Summer Vacation Project (SVP) represents your opportunity to show off all the skills you learned during the first two years of your Geology degree programme. As an SVP student you will spend part the summer between the second and third year of your degree doing: (1) an independent geological mapping exercise, (2) a placement with a company, or (3) a field-based research project. This project may be carried out in the UK, or abroad, and you must submit up to four elements for assessment, including a technical report in Term 2. The SVP is an experience of a lifetime and is a fitting conclusion to those following a BSc route in Geology at the University of Exeter.

The Summer Vacation Project allows the student to demonstrate their ability to undertake independent project work involving the collection, analysis and presentation of geological data (or equivalent data from a discipline that overlaps with geology). Students generally undertake data collection for a minimum of 28 days during the summer vacation between their second and third year, as part of a geological mapping exercise, but it can instead involve a field-based research project, or a placement with an appropriate geoscience, environmental, engineering or minerals industry company. The project should normally allow students to develop the knowledge and skills introduced during one or more of the modules taken during years 1 and 2.

On successful completion of this module, you should be able to:





Module Specific Skills and Knowledge:



1 Collect and interpret data (precise nature dependent upon the project undertaken);



Discipline Specific Skills and Knowledge:



2 Synthesise data from different sources, scales and disciplines into coherent, models of geological evolution;



3 Apply geological and related knowledge/skills to provide solutions to issues in resource, engineering and environmental geoscience (dependent on nature of project);



Personal and Key Transferable/ Employment Skills and Knowledge:



4 Plan projects and effectively manage your time;



5 Demonstrate research skills such as efficient utilisation of information retrieval services;



6 Produce technical reports.

The nature of the module dictates that a formal syllabus plan is not appropriate.

As above, one piece of Coursework (100%).

Basic Reading:

ELE: http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/

Reading list for this module: