ZALF Taught Modules

Modules Information

Participants in the Lecture Room. Photos by: Stephan Wirth, ZALF

The Taught Module consists of two one-week sessions (Module I held in April and Module II held in October). Each one-week course consist of lectures, practical sessions and exkursions. All lectures/practical sessions deal with a critical evaluation of various methods in landscape analysis.

Number of participants is limited to 15 persons. Intending participants should apply as soon as possible.

The language of the course is English. Participants must be fluent in spoken English.

General Modules Information

The ZALF Taught Module reserves the right to cancel courses, to change course instructors, to modify course content, and to alter information about examinations.

The scientific precondition is that the essential processes in landscape development can be identified, quantitatively described and influenced by configurating land use with a view to the problems involved. That is where current and planned research work is engaged.

If a course was cancelled applicants will be informed two weeks before the ZALF Taught Module begins.

Welcome Meetings

All participants of the ZALF Module I and Module II should attend the Welcome Meeting starting.

This meeting provides a general overview of the ZALF Taught Module: the administrative arrangements, the teaching programme, and additional information (shopping facilities, medical help).

Detailed Modules Information

The two ZALF modules on "Methods in Landscape Analysis I + II" are providing a course for an intensive training of students interested in advancing their scientific background especially on methodologies for analysing complex ecological and socio-economic systems. The topics covered in the modules require a preparation time of one week before the start of the classes for each of the modules and one week for advanced studies after the classes. Material for preparation will be made available through the ZALF-homepage for the participants. Material for the advanced studies will be provided during classes.

The ZALF modules are integrated already as free choice modules in the master study course "M.Sc. Integrated Natural Resource Management" at the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture at the Humboldt-University in Berlin (Germany).

Further reading about Humboldt-University zu Berlin:
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