Programme Structure

Compulsory thematic courses will give you the basic understanding of the core academic subject areas in the programme.

In addition, you choose courses from a pool of restricted elective courses, thereby strengthening your specific profile.

Finally, it is possible to personalise your degree and to create a profile that suits your personal academic interests by choosing between many elective courses: These could include biodiversity and conservation, ecology, nature perception, environmental economics, environmental chemistry, conflict management, etc.

The teaching varies between lectures, exercises, excursions, and project work. The thematic course and most of the elective and restricted elective courses include field work and excursions.

The MSc programme is concluded with a scientific project, the thesis, which takes 4 or 7 months and entitles graduates to the title Master of Science (MSc).

Do a Project in Practice or Study Abroad

You may choose to use some of your elective courses to do a project in practice in collaboration with a company or an institution. You can also study abroad for one or two semesters.

 

The programme can be structured in two different ways, depending on the size of your thesis:

Programme Overview, Thesis 30 ECTS

Compulsory courses: 15 ECTS
Restricted elective courses: 45 ECTS
Elective courses: 30 ECTS
Master's thesis: 30 ECTS

One block each year equals nine weeks of study and 15 ECTS.

Programme Overview, Thesis 45 ECTS

Compulsory courses: 15 ECTS
Restricted elective courses: 45 ECTS
Elective courses: 15 ECTS
Master's thesis: 45 ECTS

One block each year equals nine weeks of study and 15 ECTS.

Restricted Elective Courses

Choose your restricted elective courses from the lists below. Click on each course for a detailed description.

You are required to choose one of the following courses:

• Thematic Course II: Rural Landscape – Management and Planning (15 ECTS)
• Thematic Course llB: Rural Landscape – Management and Planning (15 ECTS)

Furthermore, you must choose one of the following courses:

• Environmental & Planning Law – Nature & Water (bachelor level; course language: Danish)
• EU Law – Environment, Agriculture and Food (bachelor level)
• Global Environmental Governance

Your remaining courses must be chosen from the list below:

• Soil and Water Pollution, Concepts and Theory
• Biodiversity in Urban Nature
• Biodiversity in Managed Forests
• Ethics, Environment and Society
• Landscape and Restoration Ecology
• Strategic Planning for Urban Nature
• Rural Landscapes: Transformation and Governance
• Nature Perception – Theories and Methods for Investigation
• Conservation Biology
• Conflict Management
• Macro Ecology and Community Ecology
• Ecosystem Services from Forests and Nature
• Applied Statistics: From Data to Results
• Applied Ecosystem Ecology
• Motivation and Pro-Environmental Behaviour – Managing Change
• Countryside Planning (course language: Danish)
• Geographical Informations Systems (GIS)
• Land Use and Environmental Modelling
• People, Nature and Recreation
• Climate Change Mechanisms and Tipping Points
• International Nature Conservation
• Introduction to Data Science (IDS)
• Aerial and Near-Field Remote Sensing
• Feltkursus i naturforvaltning