Courses

The specialisation in Environmental Management is offered by LIFE and UHOH. If you choose to specialise in Environmental Management 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: Environmental assessment and economics

 

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

Semester 2      (spring)	Global Environmental Governance (7.5 ECTS) C Thematic Course: Applied environmental and natural resources economics  (7.5 ECTS (15 total) A; block 3+4 GIS (7.5 ECTS) C Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation 7.5 ECTS, e-learning. Must be taken with part II in block 4 (total 15 ECTS) One free elective course (7.5 ECTS) in Block 3 OR 4
		Environmental Impact Assessment (7.5 ECTS) C Law, International Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility (7,5 ECTS) C  Life Cycle Assessment within Biological Production Systems (7.5 ECTS) A Thematic course: Applied environmental and natural resources economics (7.5 ECTS (15 total) A Block 3+4 Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation 7.5 ECTS, e-learning. Must be taken with part I in block 3. (total 15 ECTS) Applied Regulation of Natural Resources (7.5 ECTS) C One free elective course (7.5 ECTS) in Block 3 OR 4

 

 

ASP-1 at UHOH: Environmental Management

                                                                            30 ECTS

Semester 2    (summer)	Spatial Data Analysis with GIS (6 ECTS, Block 7)  Agricultural and Food Policy (6 credits, Block 8)
	Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation (15 ECTS, e-learning,*unblocked) Environmental Science Project (6 ECTS, Block 9) Elective modules Up to two modules 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.

 

ASP-2 at LIFE: Landscape ecology and management

 

                                              Block 1 (15 ECTS)                   Block 2 (15 ECTS)

Semester 3 (fall)	Landscape ecology (7.5 ECTS) B	Applied forest and natural resource economics (7.5 ECTS) C Economic valuation and cost benefit analysis (7.5 ECTS) A  Conflict Management (7.5 ECTS) A  Thematic Course: Sustainable Forest and Natural Resource Management Planning A+C (15 ECTS) Economic theory of environmental policy (7.5 ECTS) C Urban Ecosystems: Structures, Functions and Designs (7.5 ECTS) C Rural Landscapes: Methods and Approaches in Policy Making (7.5 ECTS) B Rural Livelihoods and Natural Resources Governance (7.5 ECTS) A One free elective course (7.5 ECTS) in Block 1 OR 2
	Nature Perception - Theories and Methods (7.5 ECTS) C Project management (7.5 ECTS) A  Research Planning (7.5 ECTS) C Thematic Course: Ecology and Management of Forests and other Semi-natural Terrestrial Ecosystems (15 ECTS) A+B One free elective course (7.5 ECTS) in Block 1 OR 2

 

 

ASP-2 at UHOH: Modeling and real world application

 

                                                                               30 ECTS

Semester 3        (winter)	Farm System Modeling (6 ECTS, Block 1) Poverty and Development Strategies (6 ECTS, Block 1) Natural Resource Management ( 6 ECTS, Block 3) Inland Water Ecosystems (6 ECTS, Block 5) Economics and Environmental Policy (6 ECTS, unblocked) Waste Management and Waste Techniques (6 ECTS, unblocked) Elective module 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