Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
(Bachelor of Science)
German HZB: none
International application: German C1
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Pre-internship (compulsory, can be completed up to the registration of the bachelor thesis)
Stay abroad possible, but not obligatory.
Short Description
How can we design our landscapes, gardens, parks and open spaces in such a way that they meet the diverse needs of humans, animals and plants, enabling us to live comfortably despite climate change? – This question is at the heart of the broad-based programme in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.
It is about open spaces both large and small: from gardens and national parks to waterfront promenades and alluvial landscapes. It is about sustainable habitats for humans, animals and plants, places where people can meet, exercise and relax, areas for food and energy production, flood retention and carbon storage.
Addressing these different facets, the programme combines various perspectives and disciplines: ecology and creative design, functionality and aesthetics, an eye for detail and the big picture. The courses offered cover scientific, creative and technical subjects such as planning, design and environmental analysis. Teaching centres around practice-oriented projects, in addition to lectures, seminars and field trips: using concrete examples, complex planning issues are explored in depth by small groups.
With this in mind, applicants should have a broad interest in things: a curiosity of places and the humans, animals and plants they accommodate, and of spatial interrelationships. The desire to address challenges and bring about spatial change requires creativity and spatial-analytical thinking, especially when interacting with urban and rural populations.
Areas of Focus
- Creative design
- Ecology
- Environmental planning
- Landscape architecture
- Landscape planning
- Nature conservation
- Open space planning
- Planning communication
- Plant use
- Regional and country planning
Download course content overview (German language only)
| 1. Semester | Orientierungsprojekt 1 (10 LP) | Einführung in die angewandte Pflanzenökologie und Bodenkunde 1 (5 LP) | Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung: Grundlagen und Methoden (10 LP) | Landschaftsarchitektur, Entwerfen und Geschichte (5 LP) | Visuelle Kommunikation/Gestaltung und Darstellung/Graphische Datenverarbeitung (5 LP) |
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| 2. Semester | Orientierungsprojekt 2 (10 LP) | Einführung in die angewandte Pflanzenökologie und Bodenkunde 2 (5 LP) | Entwerfen urbaner Landschaften und sozialräumlicher Kontext (5 LP) | Vegetationstechnik in der Landschaftsarchitektur - Grundlagen (5 LP) | |
| 3. Semester | Profession, Planung und Politik (10 LP) | Einführung in die angewandte Pflanzenökologie und Bodenkunde 3 (5 LP) | Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung: Maßnahmen und Instrumente (5 LP) | Entwerfen urbaner Landschaften und gesellschaftlicher Wandel (5 LP) | Wahlpflicht (5 LP) |
| 4. Semester | Vertiefungsprojekt 1 (12 LP) | Grundlagen der Ingenieurbiologie (5 LP) | Stadt-, Regional- und Landesplanung: Planungsrecht (5 LP) | Landschaftsarchitektur, Entwerfen und Theorie (5 LP) | Grundlagen der Pflanzenverwendung (5 LP) |
| 5. Semester | Vertiefungsprojekt 2 (12 LP) | Wahlpflicht (15 LP) | Exkursionen und Stegreifarbeiten (6 LP) | ||
| 6. Semester | Bachelorarbeit + Kolloquium (15 LP) | Ausarbeitung - Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten für PlanerInnen (5 LP)
| Wahlpflicht (5 LP) | ||
- An interest in landscape
- An interest in urban and rural places
- An interest in shaping spatial change
- An interest in scientific, cultural and social scientific issues
- An interest in plants, animals and humans
- An interest in social and environmental challenges
- A creative drive
- Differentiated thinking
- Synthesis skills
- Ability to work in a team
- Ability to deal with conflict
- An interest in verbal, graphic and textual communication
Landscape architects and environmental planners are engaged in both the private sector and the public sector. They operate in establishments such as municipal planning offices, nature conservation authorities and the management of historical monuments. In the private sector, they usually work in small private planning offices, or in larger planning operations in collaboration with architects, urban planners and civil engineers. Tasks range from the realisation of minor construction work in outdoor areas to the landscape management of large regions.
- Landscape Architecture (Master of Science)
- Environmental Planning and Territorial Development - Major Territorial Development (Master of Science)
- Environmental Planning and Territorial Development - Major Nature Conservation and Landscape Planning (Master of Science)
- Water and Environment (distance learning) (Master of Science)
Under certain conditions, admission to the following Master's programme is also possible. More detailed information can be found in the respective admission regulations. If you have any questions, please contact the course advice of the desired Master's programme:
Admission Requirements
The exact admission requirements can be found in the admission regulations:
Application Deadlines
First-year students (Application for the first semester is only possible for the winter semester)
- Applicants from Germany and other EU countries: June 1st – July 15th of the year
- Applicants from outside the European Union: April 15th – May 31st of the year (application via uni-assist)
- Applicants who have passed the assessment test (Feststellungsprüfung) of a German foundation course (Studienkolleg): 01.06.-15.07. of the year
Students resuming their studies and transfer students (application in a higher semester)
- Everyone: June 1st – July 15th of the year for the winter semester
- Everyone: December 1st – January 15th of the year for the summer semester
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