Courses

The specialisation in Soil Resources and Land Use is offered by all four partner universities: LIFE, UHOH, SLU and BOKU. If you choose to specialise in Soil Resources and Land Use there are twelve possible ways to combine the Basic Semester Package (BSP) and the Advanced Semester Packages (ASPs) in your Master Programme.

 

You just have to take the BSP and the ASP-1 at one of the universities (the Home university), and the ASP-2 at another of the universities (the Host university). The Masters thesis must be conducted at your Host university.

 

 

ASP-1 at LIFE: Soils as part of ecosystems

 

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

Semester 2    (spring)

Analytical Chemistry (7.5 ECTS) C GIS (7.5 ECTS) C Aquatic Environmental Chemistry (7.5 ECTS) A *KU-Pharma Land Use, Element Balances and Environmental Impact (7.5 ECTS) A Terrestrial Environmental Chemistry (7.5 ECTS) C  One free elective course (7.5 ECTS) in Block 3 OR 4

Plant ecophysiology (7.5 ECTS) B Advanced Environmental Remote Sensing Seminar (7.5 ECTS) C *KU-Science Microbial Ecology (7.5 ECTS) B *KU-Science Plants in Populations, Communities and Ecosystems (7.5 ECTS) A  Weed Biology and Management (7.5 ECTS) C  Pedology (7.5 ECTS) B (only offered in odd years) One free elective course (7.5 ECTS) in Block 3 OR 4

 

*KU-Science and *KU-Pharma: The course are taught at other Faculties. To register please follow these guidelines.

 

ASP-1 at UHOH: Soil, vegetation and landscapes

 

                                                                            30 ECTS

Semester 2 (summer)	Conservation agriculture (6 ECTS, unblocked) Spatial Data Analysis with GIS (6 ECTS, block 7)
	Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation (15 ECTS,e-learning, unblocked) Environmental Pollution and Soil Organism (6 ECTS, Block 6) Project in soil science (6 ECTS, unblocked) Interdisciplinary advanced soil science project  (6 ECTS, unblocked) 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-1 at SLU: Soil resources and land use 1

 

                                               Block 3a+b (15 ECTS)             Block 4a+b (15 ECTS)

Semester 2    (spring)

Microbial Ecology (5 ECTS) Land use and watershed management to reduce eutrophication (10 ECTS) Ecotoxiology (10 ECTS) Student project (Variable ECTS)

Applied Environmental Assessment (10 ECTS) Biogeochemistry- element cycles and climate change (5 ECTS) Project - Soil and Water Management (5 ECTS) Student project (Variable ECTS)

 

 

ASP-1 at BOKU: Soil resources and land use 1

 

                                                                                  30  ECTS

* Offered only every second year

 

 

ASP-2 at LIFE: Soil contamination and ecotoxicology

 

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

Semester 3 (fall)

Pesticide use, mode of action and ecotoxicology (7.5 ECTS) A Applied plant nutrition (7.5 ECTS) C Molecular plant biochemistry and biotechnology (7.5 ECTS) C Environmental Soil Sciences I (7.5 ECTS) A *KU-Science. Can be taken alone or together with Part II in Block 2. One free elective course (7.5 ECTS) in Block 1 OR 2

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 Environmental Soil Sciences II (7.5 ECTS) A *KU-Science. Must be taken together with Part I in Block 1 One free elective course (7.5 ECTS) in Block 1 OR 2

 

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

 

ASP-2 at UHOH: Soils

                                                                             30 ECTS

Semester 3 (winter)

Tropical Soils and Land evaluation(6 ECTS, Block 1) Ecotoxology and Environmental Analytics (6 ECTS, Block 1) Fertilisation ad Applied Soil Chemisty in the Tropics and Subtropics ( 6 ECTS, Block 3) Natural Resource Management (6 ECTS, Block 3) Land Use Economics (6 ECTS, Block 4) Project in soil science (in English and German) (6 ECTS, unblocked) Molecular Soil Ecology (in English and German) (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.

 

ASP-2 at SLU: Soil resources and land use 2

 

                                         Block 1a+b (15 ECTS)                  Block 2a+b (15 ECTS)

Semester 2        (fall)

Soils of the World (5 ECTS) Water and solute transport in the soil-plant-system (10 ECTS) Water management, soil conservation and land evaluation (10 ECTS) Student project (Variable ECTS)

Risk assessment of pollutants in soils and waters (5 ECTS) Soil and Water Chemistry (10 ECTS) Soil Biology (5 ECTS)   Student project (Variable ECTS)

 

ASP-2 at BOKU: Soil resources and land use 2

 

                                                                                 30  ECTS

* Offered only every second year 

 

Colors represent:

 

Compulsory study activities

 

Elective study activities

A,B,C: week structure at LIFE