Study programme code

MLGM.LT

Study programme administrator

Reimo Rivis

MER study programme code

1712

version code

MLGM/12.LT

School / college

LT - School of Natural Sciences and Health

Study programme title in Est.

Maastike ökoloogia

study programme title in Engl.

Landscape Ecology

Language of instruction

Estonian

Study level

Master's studies

ECTS credits

120

Study domain

Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics

Study programme group

life sciences

Study programme subgroup

Environmental sciences

Nominal study period (in semesters)

4

Access conditions

Degrees conferred

loodusteaduse magister

Study programme aims and objectives

To provide a comprehensive academic education in natural geography; to create opportunities for research work and continuing studies at PhD level; show more...

To create opportunities for understanding the structures and functional relations of natural systems;
To develop competencies for working in research institutions, public and private companies and municipal authorities (in the area of landscape ecology, environmental geochemistry, nature and environment protection, climatology, meteorology and paleogeography).

Learning outcomes of the study programme

- has obtained knowledge, theoretical and experimental basis in the area of the classical and modern ecology and earth sciences and understands their interdisciplinarity show more...

- is able to apply scientific methodologies and research practices, while taking into account ethical aspects, to qualitatively and quantitatively explain different natural processes and phenomena
- has the capability for finding and (practically or theoretically) solving problems related to their specialisation
- has adeptness to communicate scientific knowledge on the scientific, public, and popular level
- is able to understand the need for continuous professional growth and development

Graduation requirements

In order to graduate, the student shall complete the study programme in the given volume, show more...
which includes passing all compulsory courses and compiling and defending the Master’s thesis. Students who have not graduated from upper secondary schools where Estonian is the language of instruction, or who have graduated from schools where Estonian is only partly the language of instruction, are required to have Estonian language proficiency at C1 level.
As an additional requirement for students who have been admitted until 2015/2016, the foreign language proficiency according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages shall correspond to B2 level, in case of students of distant and cyclical learning to B1 level, and their computer skills shall be sufficient for university studies. Since the admission of year 2016 students are required to pass during the studies at least one course which uses a foreign language as the language of instruction.