Courses



Elective Modules (72.5 ECTS-Credits)
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Elective Module 1: Plant Diversity in Selected Native Habitats (5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are able to capture selected native habitats with regards to their flora, vegetation and ecology. They are able to distinguish different kinds and species of selected groups of native spermatophytes and are able to apply this knowledge to other groups.
Elective Module 2: Plant Diversity and Systematics (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are able to distinguish species and kinds of native spermatophytes of selected habitats and can apply this knowledge on other groups. They are also able to recognize common native lichen, moss and ferns and explain the fundamentals of evolutionary ecology and the identification of algae.
Elective Module 4: Biogeography (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are able to discuss patterns and processes of general biogeography and the spatiotemporal emergence of biodiversity. They are able to acquire knowledge of a different floristic region and understand complex biogeographical interrelations.
Elective Module 6: Vegetation and Population Ecology (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are familiar with the vegetation zones of the Earth and understand which processes determine their distribution. They are able to analyse questions in population ecology and to interpret the results won.
Elective Module 7: Analysis of Vegetation I (5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students can collect, analyse and describe plant communities in the outdoors.
Elective Module 8: Analysis of Vegetation II (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are able to carry out research in vegetation studies and assess vegetation based on ecological criteria. They have knowledge of the flora and vegetation of a foreign flora Region.
Elective Module 10: Vegetation Change II (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are familiar with the analysis, interpretation and critical discussion of palynological and paleoethnobotanical methods and data on Holocene (postglacial) vegetation development with special focus on climatic and anthropogenic influences.
Elective Module 13: Physiology I: Metabolism and Biochemistry (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students analyse the metabolism of plants and can interpret reactions of plants of environmental stress. They apply modern methods of analysis for measuring metabolites (e.g. chromatographic methods and metabolomics). They are able to demonstrate their knowledge during discussion of current publications.
Elective Module 14: Physiology II: Development (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students understand the fundamentals of plant development and their sensitivity to influences. They are familiar with the most important technologies in the area of biotechnology and genetic engineering and apply their knowledge in plant cultivation for breeding and propagation of plants.
Elective Module 15: Physiology III: Stress (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students know, can interpret and apply in practice exemplary stress-physiological reaction patterns of plants.
Elective Module 16: Ecophysiology I: Plant and Environment (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students have theoretical and methodological knowledge in the field of ecophysiology of plants and are able to analyse, interpret and critically discuss their own data and the data of others based on the current state of knowledge.
Elective Module 17: Ecophysiology II: Alpine Plants (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are familiar with specific functional adaptations of plants in the high mountains to the abiotic challenges of the alpine area, can distinguish them to others and use them specifically as models of abiotic resistance of plants.
Elective Module 19: Ecophysiology IV: Tree Growth (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students have knowledge of tree characteristics specific to growth and evolution and of their adaptability to extreme environmental conditions. They are also familiar with growthanalytical working techniques for conducting ecophysiological examinations in forests.
Elective Module 20: Philosophy of Science and Gender Research (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: In consideration of gender aspects, students are able to understand the peculiarities of biology in relation to the philosophy of science, its relationship with other disciplines and its history. Moreover, the students have a command of basic ethic terms and approaches, which enables them to independently reflect on ethical questions of research in biology and its application.
Elective Module 21: Selected Chapters of Botany I (2.5 ECTS-Credits, 2 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: With the courses offered in this module (partly held by guest lecturers) students get an insight into selected chapters of botanical sub-disciplines that are not covered by the elective modules 1-20.
Elective Modulel 22: Selected Chapters of Botany II (5 ECTS-Credits, 3 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: With the courses offered in this module (partly held by guest lecturers) students get an insight into selected chapters of botanical sub-disciplines that are not covered by the elective modules 1-21.
A module from another Master Programme of the Faculty of Biology of the University of Innsbruck can be passed.
Elective Module 23: Modules from Other Master Programmes of the Faculty of Biology I (5 ECTS-Credits) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: The prerequisites of the respective curricula do apply.
Learning Outcome: The objectives defined by the respective module give the students insights into another field of biology.

Notes:
  • There may still be changes in the courses offered as well as room allocation and course dates.
  • The course descriptions found in the English version of the course catalogue are for informational purposes only. Authoritative information can be found in the "Vorlesungsverzeichnis" (German version of the course catalogue).