Climate change, environment, and Corporate Social Responsibility are creating an ever increasing demand for employees with skills in carbon footprinting, GHG accounting, and Life Cycle Assessment. Drivers of this demand are the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (particularly understanding and managing scope 3 emissions), the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (2021) Act, Future Jobs initiative “transition to low carbon economy’ and Ireland’s National Plan on Corporate Social Responsibility. This programme provides the competency, knowledge and skills required to work with ISO standard methods for carbon footprinting, GHG inventory and life cycle assessment in a commercial environment.
Course Content and Structure:
Modules: The Graduate Diploma in Carbon Accounting and LCA comprises 60 credits over a calendar year. In the Autumn students take BSEN30360 Life Cycle Assessment, BSEN40820 Carbon Footprinting and BSEN40720 Carbon and Sustainability (15 ECTS in total), in the Spring, BSEN40400 LCA Applications and BSEN40810 Greenhouse Gas Accounting (15 ECTS in total) and in the summer BSEN40800 Industry Project (30 ECTS).
Delivery: All lectures, tutorials and practicals can be completed online, with the option of attending some on campus if desired. Practicals are offered in the late afternoon to facilitate online attendance. Most learning activities can be completed at a different time if necessary.
Course Hours: The programme is delivered over three trimesters, starting in September, January and May. Each trimester is 12 weeks of teaching plus 3 weeks for final assessments. The workload is around 6-9 contact hours plus time to work on assignments per week between September and April. In May a similar amount of time is dedicated to project work.
Entry Requirements: Level 8 honours degree in a relevant subject or >5 years relevant professional experience.
Application Assesment: Applications will be assessed before the end of June and may include a short 10 minute interview.
Funding: This programme is eligible for springboard funding, if you believe you are eligible please apply first on www.springboardcourses.ie
Curricular information is subject to change
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Following completion of this Graduate Diploma, students will be able to:
T384 Grad Dip Carbon Accounting & Life Cycle Assessment PT is a one-year, 60-credit part-time Masters Programme. All students must take 15 credits of taught modules in the Autumn and Spring Trimesters, and the 30-credit module, BSEN40800 Industry Project in the Summer Term. The Autumn Modules are: BSEN30360, BSEN40820 and BSEN40720. The Spring Trimester modules are: BSEN40810 and BSEN40400.
| Module ID | Module Title | Trimester | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| BSEN30360 | Life Cycle Assessment | Autumn | 5 |
| BSEN40820 | Carbon Footprinting | Autumn | 5 |
| BSEN40720 | Carbon & Sustainability | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 5 |
| BSEN40400 | LCA Applications | Spring | 5 |
| BSEN40810 | GHG Accounting | Spring | 10 |
| BSEN40800 | Industry Project | Summer | 30 |
| Award | GPA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Programme | Module Weightings | Rule Description | Description | ||
| GDENA001 | Stage 1 - 100.00% |
Standard Honours Award | First Class Honours | 3.68 |
4.20 |
| Second Class Honours, Grade 1 | 3.08 |
3.67 |
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| Second Class Honours, Grade 2 | 2.48 |
3.07 |
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| Pass | 2.00 |
2.47 |
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