Landscape Ecology, Nature Conservation (undergraduate)

The undergraduate course in Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation provides scientific and practical basic knowledge in biological and geosciences, landscape ecology, and spatial and environmental planning and leads to a first professional university degree.

Compulsory modules (examples):

• General biology
• Chemistry for natural scientists
• Soil science
• Botany
• Geoinformatics
• Geology/geomorphology
• Fundamentals of nature conservation and planning law
• International nature conservation
• Climatology
• Landscape ecology and nature conservation
• Physics
• Spatial and environmental planning
• Environmental ethics
• Water and material cycles
• Zoology

Elective modules (examples):

• Financing and project development in nature conservation
• Settlement typology
• Animal ecology
• Tourism

Practical study content:

• Depending on the university, internships, practical modules, practical semesters (e.g. in nature conservation and land use authorities or in landscape ecology-oriented research institutions)