Environmental Impacts Courses

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PLEASE NOTE: The below curriculum is provided for reference only, pending final approval from the relevant study board at each university. Updated June 2021.

The specialization in Environmental Impacts is offered by UCPH and UHOH (only ASP-2).  If you choose to specialize in Environmental Impacts there are two possible ways to combine the Basic Semester Package (BSP) and the Advanced Semester Packages (ASPs) in your Master Programme:

Option 1:  UCPH as Home university and UHOH as Host university

1. Semester: BSP at UCPH
2. Semester: ASP-1 at UCPH
3. Semester: ASP-2 at UHOH
4. Semester: Masters Thesis at UHOH 

or

Option 2: UHOH as Home university and UCPH as Host university

1. Semester: BSP at UHOH
2. Semester: ASP-1 at UHOH (any of ASP-1 that are offered, e.g. Environmental Management, Soil Resources and Land Use, Ecosystems and Biodiversity)
3. Semester: ASP-2 at UCPH
4. Semester: Masters Thesis at UCPH 

ASP-1 at UCPH: Pollution and Protection (Environmental Impacts)

Course descriptions available in the course database (www.kurser.ku.dk) at University of Copenhagen

Semester 2 (spring)

 Block 3 (15 ECTS) Block 4 (15 ECTS)
  • Land Use and Environmental Modelling (7.5 ECTS) A
  • Environmental Impact Assessment (7.5 ECTS) C
  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation (7.5 ECTS) C

  • One free elective course (7.5 ECTS) in Block 3 OR 4
  • Geographical Information Systems (GIS) (7.5 ECTS) C
  • Natural Resource Sampling and Modelling (7.5 ECTS) B
  • Pesticide Use, Mode of Action and Ecotoxicology (7.5 ECTS) A
  • Advanced Chemometrics and Machine Learning (7.5 ECTS) C

A,B,C: week structure at UCPH

NOTE: 22.5ECTS have to be covered from above restricted elective courses. Besides this, one 7.5 ECTS course is free elective (but can also be from the list above). All subject elements at MSc level may be included as elective subject elements.

ASP-2 at UCPH: Chemicals and the Landscape (Environmental Impacts)

Course descriptions available in the course database (www.kurser.ku.dk) at University of Copenhagen

Block 1 (15 ECTS) Block 2 (15 ECTS)

Semester 3 

(autumn)
  • Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation (15 ECTS, e-learning)
  • Life cycle assessment within biological production systems (7.5 ECTS) B
  • Remote sensing of the Bio-geosphere (7.5 ECTS) B
  • Ecosystems, Climate and Climate Change (7.5 ECTS) B
  • Plants in populations and communities (7.5 ECTS) C
  • Plant nutrition and soil fertility (7.5 ECTS) C
  • Applied Microbiology (7.5 ECTS) A 
  • Landscape and Restoration Ecology (7.5 ECTS) B
  • Applied Statistics (7.5 ECTS) C
  • Applied Microbiology (7.5 ECTS) A 

  • One free elective course (7.5 ECTS) in Block 1 OR 2

A,B,C: week structure at UCPH

NOTE: 22.5ECTS have to be covered from above restricted elective courses. Besides this, one 7.5 ECTS course is free elective (but can also be from the list above). All subject elements at MSc level may be included as elective subject elements.

ASP-2 at UHOH: Methods for Environmental Impacts

30 ECTS

Semester 3

(winter)
  • Chemistry of the Earth System and Pollution (6 ECTS)
  • Global Change Issues (6 ECTS)
  • Ecology and Agroecosystems (6 ECTS)
  • Agricultural Production and Residues (6 ECTS)
  • Waste Management and Waste Techniques (6 ECTS)

ASP2 consists of unblocked modules - these are running throughout the entire lecture period.

NOTE: Courses listed above are semi-elective. Students have to select four of the semi-elective modules plus one elective module. The elective module may be freely chosen from the module catalogue of all master courses of the Faculty of Agricultural Science and the Faculty of Natural Science.

Module descriptions can be found in the module catalogue at UHOH