This MFor Forestry degree enables you to study through a range of lectures tutorials seminars and fieldwork. These are also significant opportunities to develop an in-depth and ambitious M-level research dissertation. Optional modules in the final year allow you to expand your studies into new areas or develop specialisms that interest you.

What will you study on this course?
Years 1 and 2
The first year provides an introduction to the ecological economic and environmental principles on which forestry is based. In the second year you will develop your understanding of these principles and apply them to forestry practice. Subjects studied during the first two years include tree and wood identification site assessment tree measurement silviculture and inventory forest health forest management and geographical information systems. By the end of the second year you will have acquired the knowledge and understanding needed for a sandwich placement year should you wish to do one.

Year 3
In the third year you will integrate the knowledge that you have acquired in the first two years to write a management plan for a landscape featuring significant areas of woodland forest and other habitats. Modules in forest ecology forest ecosystems environmental issues renewable energy and advanced GIS and remote sensing enable you to develop subject specific skills and expertise further. You can also choose to go on a week-long field course in Tenerife. A module on research planning also enables you to continue refining and developing your M-level dissertation: this is your independent research projection a topic that interests you under the supervision of academic staff.

Year 4
In your final year you can choose from a range of advanced specialist modules such as agroforestry forest ecology and resources natural resource management or business planning.

Modules for the current academic year
Module listings are for guide purposes only and are subject to change. Find out what our students are currently studying on the Forestry MFor Modules page.

Course content is for guidance purposes only and may be subject to change.