Courses
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Compulsory Module 1: Man and Environment (10 ECTS-Credits, 6 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students understand spatial structures and processes and evaluate strategies and policies until they are regulated.
Compulsory Module 2: Cartography and Statistics I (5 ECTS-Credits, 2 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students master the basics of cartography and statistics and can choose appropriate descriptive statistical methods of evaluation for specific questions.
Compulsory Module 3: Economic Fundamentals (5 ECTS-Credits, 2 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students have knowledge about basic concepts of economics and regional policy.
Compulsory Module 4: General Geography I (10 ECTS-Credits, 6 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Students are able to derive the theory methods and problem issues of human and physical geography emerging from the development of their sub disciplines and apply them to concrete spatial issues.
Compulsory Module 5: Regional Geography I (5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Students possess knowledge of typical structures and processes in Austria and the Eastern Alps.
Compulsory Module 6: Fundamentals of Social Sciences (5 ECTS-Credits, 2 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students possess a basic concept of social sciences.
Compulsory Module 7: Scientific Working (5 ECTS-Credits, 3h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Students master the methods of scientific working and can position themselves in scientific and theoretical terms. They are very familiar with project - oriented work and are able to carry out projects autonomously and in teams.
Compulsory Module 8: Human Geography (10 ECTS-Credits, 6 h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Students are able to apply the theory, methods and issues of human geography emerging from the development of the sub disciplines of human geography, and they can apply them to specific spatial issues, which covers autonomous observation, collection (mapping), questioning and analysis of practice - oriented geographic issues.
Compulsory Module 9: Physical Geography I (10 ECTS-Credits, 6 h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Students understand the basic processes of the fields of geomorphology, hydrogeography as well as soil and plant geography and can exactly address their physical states. Students can understand and analyse autonomous processes, forms and states in natural areas by observation, mapping, etc.
Compulsory Module 10: Regional Geography II (5 ECTS-Credits, 2 h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Students understand natural and cultural structures and processes in a selected territory and can explain and question the consequences of global change.
Compulsory Module 11: Introduction to Techniques of Human Geography (5 ECTS-Credits, 3 h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Students have an overview of fundamental social scientific work methods in the field of
geography. Moreover, they are able to autonomously evaluate, select and implement
methods based on different questions.
Compulsory Module 12: Cartography and Statistics II (5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory modules 1 and 2
Learning Outcome: Students master the basics of cartography and statistics. They can choose appropriate descriptive statistical methods of evaluation and interpret the results correctly.
Compulsory Module 13: Regional Geography III (5 ECTS-Credits, 3 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Students understand the basic processes and consequences of global change and
can evaluate analytically the complex interactions between society and environment.
Compulsory Module 14: Field Course (5 ECTS-Credits, 3 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Students know the typically European nature areas and social space structures on different measures.
Compulsory Module 15: Geoinformatics I (5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of the compulsory modules 1, 2 and 12
Learning Outcome: Students master the basics of geoinformatics and know the basic functions of a geographical information system.
Compulsory Module 16: General Geography II (5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of the compulsory modules 1 and 4
Learning Outcome: Students are able to apply the theory methods and problem issues of human and physical geography emerging from the development of the sub disciplines of human and physical geography and they can apply the findings to specific spatial issues.
Compulsory Module 17: Space and Time (5 ECTS-Credits, 2 h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Students know how to evaluate space-time dimensions of geography and selected neighbouring disciplines.
Compulsory Module 18: Integrative Geography 1(10 ECTS-Credits, 6 h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Students understand fundamental processes and consequences of global change and can analytically evaluate the complex interactions between society and environment.
Compulsory Module 19: Applied Geography and Spatial Planning (5 ECTS-Credits, 3 h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Students know how to apply geographic results and skills in order to identify, analyse and solve social problems in the context of space.
Compulsory Module 20: Geoinformatics II (5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of the compulsory modules 1 and 15
Learning Outcome: Students have comprehensive skills and competences in the field of data collection and the creation and organisation of geo databases.
Compulsory Module 21: Regional Geography IV (5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Students know different regions, space structures, spatial processes and effects of the men-human-system. Moreover, they are able to evaluate economic use of landscape potentials, to perform regionalisation, and identify spatial issues.
Compulsory Module 22: Integrative Geography 2 (5 ECTS-Credits, 2 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Students know how to critically question and apply integrative geographical approaches in order to deal with social issues.
Compulsory Module 23: Seminar with Bachelor's Thesis (15 ECTS-Credits, 2 h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Students are able to carry out autonomously a written contribution about a subject from the field of geography (physical geography or human geography), which meet the requirements of a good scientific practice and to present the results in the form of a
presentation.
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).