Studies at the Institute for Landscape Management

The Institute attempts to offer a varied and attractive range of study programmes that include modern methods of knowledge transferral, independent education options and academically demanding theoretical and practical courses that are connected together to cover the broad spectrum of work in landscape management. As a result, new and interesting professional fields arise for graduates of the study programmes of the Faculty of Forest- and Environmental Sciences, especially as the lectures are connected very closely with working life by incorporating invited guests or relevant vocational visits. Photographs (with german text) from previous courses/classes/lectures are available on this site.

Day trips, practical courses in the local area and larger excursions (for example, Lausitz in former East Germany or Slovenia) play a very important role in studying the landscape and also the historical connections that include the forces of political and economic organisations. In some seminars, the students themselves plan and actively arrange the course, which are then implemented in each case. This means the planning strategy must be made plausible (for example, the course "Communication in Planning"). In the field, concepts are "understood", in the strict sense of the word, by being taken in visually and worked on. In the lecture theatre, however, information is taken in using other senses; not only listening and writing, but also discourse, role-playing and practical exercises play a large part. By way of short presentations, the students themselves bring in their own components to the teaching material. Homework permits deeper investigation into the topics covered during lectures.

Every year some fifteen theses are completed through the Institute, some of which are conducted within the frame of current research projects. The spectrum of topics are, as is generally the case with land management, very broad and range from: "Wilderness Development on the Basis of Cultural-Historic and Vegetation Species Examination in the Colloro / Piedmont Area" through "Former Expansion of Meadow Irrigation Along the Glotter and its Tributaries" to "Thoughts for the Integration of the Local Populations and Nature Protection in Skolivski Beskydy National Park, Ukraine". The dissertation topics currently on offer also orientate themselves towards the broad research of the Institute.