• Insights into the various disciplines of forestry

Ammount: 3 Credits

• Anatomy and metabolic processes of plants
• Plant systematics
• Microscopy exercises

Amount: 6 Credits

• Identification exercises to identify tree and plant species
• Creation of herbaria

Amount: insg. 6 Credits

• Physical and chemical fundamentals and measurement methods with application to forestry issues

Amount: 6 Credits

• Systematics, ecology and behaviour of insects and native wild animals
• Habitat conservation
• Wildlife diseases
• Game preservation, district design
• Hunting law, hunting history

Amount: 6 Credits

• Introduction to common software and database structures
• Introduction to geographic information systems (GIS) and cartography
• Practical exercises with the ArcGIS software: from data acquisition to the cartographic output of results

Amount: 6 Credits

• Interactions between forest and atmosphere
• Atmospheric factors (wind, radiation, air temperature and humidity) and their influence on physiological processes in the forest
• Importance of forests in the local and global climate system; exchange of CO2
• Influence of climate change on forest ecosystems

Amount: 6 Credits

• Nutritional physiology of wood plants
• Photosynthesis and respiration
• Energy production

Amount: 3 Credits

• Geology, Mineralogy and Geomorphology
• Origin and properties of different soil types
• Excursions to soil determination

Amount: 6 Credits

• Insect identification exercises
• Diseases of forest plants
• Abiotic forest damage and forest protection

Amount: 6 Credits

Forest elective modules, e.g:

• Ecology of tropical forests
• Forestry practice
• Wildlife Biological Excursions
• Research internship

Alternatively, you can choose from the full range of modules offered by the university, e.g. language courses, modules from other faculties, etc.

Amount: 6 Credits

• Forest ecosystems of the earth
• Characteristics and ecological requirements of tree species
• Structure, function and dynamics of forest ecosystems
• Silvicultural goals, tree species selection
• Maintenance measures and justification reports in forests

Amount: 9 Credits

• Basic economic problems
• Fundamentals of operational planning and accounting
• Market and competition mechanisms on the timber market

Amount: 6 Credits

• Chemical, physical and biological processes in soils
• Water and nutrient cycles of forest ecosystems
• Soil acidification

Amount: 3 Credits

• Understanding of the mathematical background (linear algebra, analysis and stochastics) of quantitative methods in forest science
• Forest biometric models (e.g. growth models)
• Descriptive statistics and probability calculation

Amount: 6 Credits

• Basic knowledge of classical and molecular genetics
• Genetic Markers
• Importance of genetic information for tree growth
• Temporal and spatial dynamics of genetic structures of forest tree populations
• Conservation and use of forest genetic resources

Amount: 6 Credits

• Reporting on and evaluation of soil, vegetation and forest inventory in the field as a basis for silvicultural decisions
• Excursions to various locations in Lower Saxony and Hesse

Amount: 3 Credits

• Cost Calculation for the Production Factor Labor
• Timber harvesting and transport
• Use of forestry machines
• Optimization of logistics processes
• Methods of environmentally friendly forest development
• Planning, construction and maintenance of forest roads

Amount: 6 Credits

• Decisions in forestry operations: procurement, optimisation processes, marketing, investment calculation, forest evaluation
• Accounting in Forest management
• Taxation of forestry companies

Amount: 6 Credits

Forest inventory and remote sensing:

• Types of forest inventories
• Statistical sampling procedures
• Basics of aerial photography and satellite image analysis
• Dealing with measuring and evaluation devices

Forest metrology:

• Principles and techniques for recording single-tree and forest-related data
• Statistical models and modelling of data
• Exercises with technical measuring instruments

Surveying:

• Surveying tasks in forestry
• Exercises with surveying equipment
• Cartography

Amount: 6 Credits

• Anatomical, chemical and physical wood properties
• Wood working and processing possibilities
• Wood use
• Wood-based materials
• Determination exercises of important indigenous and naturalised timber species based on macroscopic characteristics

Amount: 6 Credits

• Analysis, interpretation and processing of scientific data
• Planning of your own scientific project

Amount: 3 Credits

• 3-month internship in a forestry company

Amount: 12 Credits

• Growth of forest stands and individual trees based on examples from all over the world
• Basic knowledge and methods of forest management for the regular recording of the forest condition (inventory), for the analysis of inventory data and for previous maintenance and harvesting measures as well as for the planning of future forest development.

Amount: 6 Credits

Private forest law:

• Basic Principles of Civil Law and Contract Law
• Basic questions of purchase contracts and disposal transactions
• Safety obligation

Public forestry law:

• General public law
• Federal and state forest law
• Landscape management

Amount: 6 Credits

• Technical Background, Goals, Concepts and Regulations of Nature Conservation in Germany
• Species, biotope and area conservation
• Landscape conservation and planning

Amount: 3 Credits

• Possibilities of forest education
• Pedagogy and communication principles
• Importance of public relations work
• Introduction to the media landscape

Amount: 3 Credits

• Scientific thesis on a specific topic, 20 to 30 pages, timeframe: 3 months

Amount: 12 Credits

• Recording and evaluation of information relevant to forestry in order to make operational decisions
• Management concepts
• Excursions to forestry companies and exercises

Amount: 3 Credits

• Presentation of political actors in the forestry sector (e.g. government, associations, forest owners, citizens)
• Case studies on forest policy programmes, actors and instruments

Amount: 3 Credits