Complex challenges require competent solution strategies

The current and future challenges of the climate crisis, the adaptation of land and resource use and the conservation of biodiversity require interdisciplinary skills at the highest level. The Bachelor's degree programme in Environmental Systems Science - Geoecology teaches scientific skills for tackling environmental problems at a local, regional and global level. We provide our students with a broad understanding of functions, processes and interactions in environmental systems as well as a comprehensive repertoire of analytical methods. This prepares our alumni to analyse and evaluate complex environmental issues using scientific methods and to develop solutions.

The degree programme in Freiberg is as diverse as the current and future environmental issues. The 3-year Bachelor's degree programme begins with students acquiring a networked basic knowledge of natural sciences, which they increasingly interweave and expand for an interdisciplinary environmental systems analysis. In the final semesters, students choose a system specialisation in which they examine sub-areas of the human-environmental system in depth, in an interdisciplinary and problem-solving-oriented manner. The study projects and specialisations can be individually designed depending on the student's personal focus. Practical insights, contact with future jobs and application of knowledge take place in a non-university work placement at the end of the degree programme. Regional, national and international networks can be used for the projects, the work placement and the final thesis.

Structure of the BSc Environmental Systems Science - Geoecology degree programme

The degree programme is divided into five content areas, the systems specialisation, the work placement and the Bachelor's thesis. The areas of mathematical and natural science fundamentals (M1), environmental systems science fundamentals (U1), applied environmental systems science (U2) and spatio-temporal data analysis and computer science (M2) are compulsory. The modules in the areas of social sciences and communication (GK) and system specialisations (SV) can be chosen according to individual interests.
The degree programme can be studied full-time or part-time. For part-time study, an individual study schedule is determined in consultation with the examination board.