Courses



Compulsory Modules (172.5 ECTS-Credits)
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Module 1: Solid Earth 1 (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are oriented over the basics of the endogenous processes of the lithosphere and the dynamic changes in the earth's surface on the geological time scale and they possess a basic knowledge of the development of the history of life.
Module 2: Introduction to Mathematics (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students know the basic tools of higher mathematics.
Module 3: Introduction to Physics (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students have an overview of the basic concepts of physics.
Module 5: Solid Earth 2 (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are able to carry out simple practical earth science tasks in the field.
Module 6: Introduction to Chemistry and Geophysics (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students have an overview of the basics of general and inorganic chemistry as well as of geophysics and they know how to handle chemical analytical methods.
Module 7: Geology 1 (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students possess basic knowledge in working with questions of a structural-geological, sediment-geological and quarter-geological methods.
Module 13: Geology 2 (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: Positive completion of compulsory modules 1 to 3, 5 and 7.
Learning Outcome: Students know how to read geological maps and to draw up profiles and they know the basics of tectonics as well as of quartär geology.
Module 14: Petrography 1 (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: Positive completion of modules 2, 3, 9 and 10.
Learning Outcome: Students are enabled to determine stone building minerals and rocks by microscope (hand rock sample and in the field).
Module 15: The Alps and Europe (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: Positive completion of compulsory modules 1 and 5.
Learning Outcome: Students learn the natural-spatial spheres that are typical of Europe: lithosphere, hydrospehre, kryosphere, atmosphere, biosphere) and the societal spatial structures.
Module 16: Field Course 1 (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: Positive completion of compulsory modules 7, 8, 9 and 10.
Learning Outcome: Students acquire competences with geological maps and can present these in written and oral form as well as enter into scientific discussions.
Module 21: Geology 3 (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: Positive completion of compulsory module 15.
Learning Outcome: Students have thorough knowledge in the area of the regional geology of the Alps.
Module 22: Field Course 2 (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: Positive completion of compulsory modules 13 and 16.
Learning Outcome: Students have enhanced competencies in geological mapping and can present these both orally and in writing in a scientific discussion.