Courses

Compulsory Modules (172.5 ECTS-Credits)

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 4: Geography: Man and Environment (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)

Prerequisites for registration: none

Learning Outcome: Students understand spatial structures, conflicts and proccesses and evaluate strategies and policies until they are regulated.

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)

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)

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 8: Cartography, Statistics (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)

Prerequisites for registration: none

Learning Outcome: Students master the basics of projection theory, can read maps and for specific questions can choose appropriate descriptive statistical methods of evaluation and interpret the results correctly.

Module 9: Petrology and Geochemistry (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)

Prerequisites for registration: Positive completion of compulsory modules 1, 5 and 6.

Learning Outcome: Students possess knowledge of the processes of magmatic and metamorphous stone geneses and geochemical reactions in the lower temperature area.

Module 10: Mineralogy 1 (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)

Prerequisites for registration: Positive completion of compulsory modules 1, 5 and 6.

Learning Outcome: Students know about the legal limits of the cristaline materials the physical-chemical qualities, the genesis and the occurrence of the minerals and can determine them with microscopical signs.

Module 11: Earth History (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h) (no courses)

Prerequisites for registration: Positive completion of compulsory modules 1 and 5.

Learning Outcome: Students know the main groups of fossile organisms and know about geological changes during the history of the Earth.

Module 12: Introduction to Atmospheric Sciences (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)

Prerequisites for registration: none

Learning Outcome: Students know how meteorology works, they know the main phenomena and processes ad learn how to interpret the events of the weather and of climate. They also have overview knowledge of the main content of the study of atmospheric sciences and their development.

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 17: Petrography 2 (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)

Prerequisites for registration: Positive completion of compulsory module 14.

Learning Outcome: Students should be enabled to identify the most important stones by microscope.

Module 18: Applied Geology (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)

Prerequisites for registration: Positive completion of compulsory modules 1 and 5.

Learning Outcome: Students have basic knowledge of the practical use of geological methods for solving engineer-geological, hydrogeological and quartärgeological quesitons.

Module 19: Mineralogy 2 (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h)

Prerequisites for registration: Positive completion of compulsory modules 10 and 14.

Learning Outcome: Students possess knowledge of natural and synthetic raw materials.

Module 20: Seminar with Bachelor Thesis 1 (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 1 h) (no courses)

Prerequisites for registration: Positive completion of compulsory modules 11, 13, 14 and 16.

Learning Outcome: Students are able on their own to do a Bachelor Thesis on a topic of the earth sciences that meets the requirements of good scientific practice; the students can also defend the results of their work in the form of a lecture.

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.

Module 23: Seminar with Bachelor Thesis 2 (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 1 h) (no courses)

Prerequisites for registration: Positive completion of compulsory module 20.

Learning Outcome: Students are able to produce independently a written piece of work from a topic of the earth sciences which meets the requirements of good scientific practice. The students should also be able to defend the results in the form of a lecture.

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).

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