Courses

Biodiversity, plant and animal genetic resources The specialization in Environmental Impacts is offered by LIFE and UHOH. If you choose to specialize in Environmental Impacts there are two possible ways to combine the Basic Semester Package (BSP) and the Advanced Semester Packages (ASPs) in your Master Programme:

 

Option 1:  LIFE as Home university and UHOH as Host university

1. Semester: BSP at LIFE
2. Semester: ASP-1 at LIFE
3. Semester: ASP-2 at UHOH
4. Semester: Masters Thesis at UHOH

 

or

 

Option 2: UHOH as Home university and LIFE as Host university

1. Semester: BSP at UHOH
2. Semester: ASP-1 at UHOH
3. Semester: ASP-2 at LIFE
4. Semester: Masters Thesis at LIFE

 

 

ASP-1 at LIFE: Pollution and Protection

 

                                      Block 3 (15 ECTS)                         Block 4 (15 ECTS)

Semester 2(spring)	Analytical chemistry (7.5 ECTS) C Geographical Information Systems (GIS) (7.5 ECTS) C Land Use, Element Balances and Environmental Impact (7.5 ECTS) A	Environmental Impact Assessment (7.5 ECTS) C and/or Life Cycle Assessment within Biological Production Systems (7.5 ECTS) A
		Plant Ecophysiology (7.5 ECTS) B Plants in Populations, Communities and Ecosystems (7.5 ECTS) A
	Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation (7.5 ECTS) online course. Must be taken with part II in block 4 (total 15 ECTS) One free elective course (7.5 ECTS) in Block 3 OR 4

 

*KU-Science: The course is taught at the Faculty of Science. To register please follow these guidelines.

 

ASP-1 at UHOH: Environmental Pollution

 

                                                                             30  ECTS 

Semester 2 (summer)	Environmental Science Project (6 ECTS, Block 9) Spatial Data Analysis with GIS (6 ECTS, Block 7) Biodiversity, Plant and Animal Genetic Resources (6 ECTS, Block 8)
	Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation (15 ECTS, e-learning, *unblocked) Environmental Pollution and Soil Organisms (6 ECTS, Block 6) Elective modules Up to two modules may be chosen from the module catalogue of all master courses of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences

   

Elective courses - at least 12 credits have to be chosen in ASP1 !!!

 

*) Unblocked Modules are running throughout the whole semester with attendance times in the morning hours

blocked modules are running for a period of 3 ½ weeks each with attendance times in the afternoon hours. Blocks 1-5 are in the winter term, and blocks 6-10 in the summer term. It is not possible to take two modules within one semester that are scheduled at the same block.

 

 

 

ASP-2 at LIFE: Chemicals and the landscape

 

 

                                           Block 1 (15 ECTS)                Block 2 (15 ECTS 

Semester 3 (fall)	Remote Sensing of the Bio-geosphere (15 ECTS) in Block 1 OR 2   One free elective course (7.5 ECTS) in Block 1 OR 2
	Pesticide Use, Mode of Action and Ecotoxicology (7.5 ECTS) A Natural Resource Sampling and Modelling (7.5 ECTS) B Landscape Ecology (7.5 ECTS) B Applied Plant Nutrition (7.5 ECTS) C Molecular Plant Biochemistry and Physiology (7.5 ECTS) C	Applied Microbiology (7.5 ECTS) A  Applied Statistics (7.5 ECTS) A Advanced Chemometrics (7.5 ECTS) A Biological Control of Pests (7.5 ECTS) B Ecological Climatology and Climate Change (7.5 ECTS) C  *KU-Science

*KU-Science: The course is taught at the Faculty of Science. To register please follow these guidelines.

 

ASP-2 at UHOH: Environmental impacts in different media    

 

                                                                      30 ECTS 

Semester 3  (winter)	Air pollution and Air Pollution Control (6 ECTS, Block 1) Agricultural Production and Residues (6 ECTS, Block 1) Ecotoxicology and Environmental Analytics (6 ECTS, Block 2) Ecology and Agro-ecosystems (6 ECTS, Block 2)  Matter Cycling in Agroecosystems (6 ECTS, Block 3) Natural Resource Management (6 ECTS, Block 3) Global Change Issues (6 ECTS, Block 4) Environmental Microbiology, Parasitology, and Microbial Ecology (6 ECTS, Block 4) Inland Water Ecosystems (6 ECTS, Block 5) Waste Management and Waste Techniques (6 ECTS, Unblocked) Elective modules One module may be chosen from the module catalogue of all master courses of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences

 

*) Unblocked Modules are running throughout the whole semester with attendance times in the morning hours

blocked modules are running for a period of 3 ½ weeks each with attendance times in the afternoon hours. Blocks 1-5 are in the winter term, and blocks 6-10 in the summer term. It is not possible to take two modules within one semester that are scheduled at the same block.

 

Colors represent:

 

Compulsory study activities

 

Elective study activities

 

A,B,C: week structure at LIFE