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Info 2024/2025

Degree type BACHELOR'S DEGREE
Duration 3 years
CFU 180
Class L-32
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Access Free access
Locations GENOVA
Language Italian
Teaching mode In-person
Head of programme PAOLO VASSALLO
Department DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE DELLA TERRA, DELL'AMBIENTE E DELLA VITA
Taxes and fees From 0 to 3,000 a year. Find out if you qualify for grants ed exemptions
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The course in brief

Presentation

The Environmental and Natural Sciences degree will provide you with the scientific, methodological and cultural foundations for a comprehensive understanding of the environmental system, its components and their historical development. You will be able to pursue professions in the natural and environmental fields, such as support for scientific research, monitoring, management, recovery and planning of natural and man-made environmental systems, dissemination and scientific communication.

Learning by doing

The teaching includes not only classroom lectures, but also exercises, workshops and field activities. You will be able to participate in a naturalistic or oceanographic campaign depending on the course chosen, carry out internships in environmental planning and management organisations or in environmental analysis and monitoring laboratories to acquire technical skills and apply what you have learnt in practice.

Professional outlets

The course prepares for the following professions: environmental control technicians, agronomy technicians, forestry technicians, tourist entertainers and related professions, nature and sports guides and escorts, tour guides, museum technicians.

After passing a state exam, you can enter the professional registers: Junior Planner, Junior Biologist, Agrotechnician and Agricultural Technician.

You will gain access to teaching at the end of targeted postgraduate courses.

Did you know that.

You will have the opportunity to participate in seminars held by national and international experts

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At the University of Genoa, the course has an ancient origin: in 1784, the chair of Natural History was established!

The interdisciplinary approach favours access to many professions such as environmental control technician, agronomist and forestry technician

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Depending on the chosen field - Environment or Nature - you can participate in nature or environmental campaigns at sea

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Contents

Earth and life sciences

The three-year degree course in Natural and Environmental Sciences conveys both the cultural foundations and the use of the professional tools necessary for the knowledge, valorisation and proper management of the natural heritage, in the spirit of the Higher Education Degree Accreditation process recently disseminated by the CIEEM - Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management. The course offers an integrated reading of natural and anthropogenic ecosystems and is consequently characterised by teaching activities in the fields of Earth Sciences and Life Sciences, combined with an adequate foundation in mathematics, physics, chemistry and computer science.

Environment and nature

The course of study includes a common first year for all students and then a choice between two curricula:

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  • Nature, has as its objective the knowledge of the faunistic and floristic components of the environment, with functional in-depth studies related to the conservation and restoration of animal and plant biocenoses
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  • Environment, aimed at the training of figures capable of collaborating in activities of survey, classification, analysis, monitoring, restoration and conservation of abiotic and biotic components of natural systems in order to promote the quality of the environment
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Coordinator

Welcome to the Bachelor of Science in Environmental and Natural Sciences. This course of study, structured in two curricula, Nature and Environment, will enable you to bring out and enhance your potential and predisposition towards professional activities in the analysis and management of both natural and man-made environments.

Paolo Vassallo

Where we are

The course takes place mainly at the

Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences - DISTAV
Corso Europa 26
16132 Genoa
www.distav.unige.it

Some lessons and/or workshops take place at

Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry - DCCI
Via Dodecaneso 31
16146 Genova
www.chimica.unige.it

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