Excursions are an ideal framework for combining theoretical concepts of the environmental study program with the real world. An intensive discussion of environmental science and political questions takes place during an excursion day. The students learn about the specifics and challenges of a region and deepen their knowledge in exchange with experts.

A geographic information system (GIS) is used to collect, manage, analyse, and present spatial data. This course teaches the theoretical foundations and concepts and provides hands-on experience on practice-relevant examples, using ArcGIS Pro software.After completing the course, students will be able to work out solutions to simple GIS problems on their own.

This course engrosses the close to practice application of geographic information systems by means of self-dependent case study (project work), being handled by small teams.The students elaborate a project schedule, conceive an analysis workflow, effect a multi-stage analysis within the context of an environmental problem and present their results to the course plenum.

This course provides an in-depth exploration of advanced spatial data modeling and analysis, including e.g. network or least-cost analyses. It introduces geoprocessing techniques using Python and ArcGIS, emphasizing the automation and scripting of complex GIS workflows.Upon completion, students will have acquired the technical and methodological foundations for advanced GIS analysis.