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Composition

Composition of the Study programme

During your studies you will deal with the consequences of land management for our environment and the possibilities of sustainable food production. The aim is to measure, evaluate and, if necessary, correct the effects of human activity on the environment.

You are fundamentally involved in soil science, landscape ecology, waste management, microbiology, material flow management, hydrology, resource management, environmental analysis, geoinformatics.


Teaching and research is carried out in the following areas:

  • Waste management,
  • Soil science,
  • Soil conservation,
  • Landscape ecology and landscape planning.

Modules

The degree course consists of 20 modules:

  • 8 core modules (mandatory)
  • 8 specialisation modules (optional)
  • written thesis (equivalent to 4 modules).

Half the taught modules are mandatory (core modules) the other half of the modules can be selected from all the courses offered by the department or partially by other departments in the JLU (specialisation modules).

Specialisation is possible through the selection of the profile modules.

The core modules (mandatory) are:

  • Soil Conservation and Decontamination
  • Quantitative Hydrology
  • Stocktaking of Soil and Site Evaluation for Land Use 
  • Applied Statistics
  • Ecology of  Agricultural Landscapes
  • Microbial Ecology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Resource Economics, Sustainability, and Environmental Management

Through the selection of certain specialisation modules it is possible to acquire the following areas of specialisation which will be shown in the Master’s degree certificate.

  • Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation
  • Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology
  • Resource Management

 

Master's Thesis

With the Master's thesis the students will demonstrate their ability to work independently on scientific problems in one of the focus areas of their subject and the course is then completed.

 

Further Information

A description of the core- and specialisation modules can be found in the special regulations with module descriptions and module plans (in German)

More on this... ("Spezielle Ordnung")

 

Courses offered in the course catalogue