Material Science Master of Science an der Universität Koblenz

Technology and Sensors in Precision Crop Production

Tree phenology analysis in R

Lecture Series on Future Competent Agricultural and Food Systems

Lecture Series on Current Topics in Agricultural and Food Research

Environmental Governance

Data Analysis of Ecosystem-Atmosphere Interactions

Agricultural Excursion to the Tropics and Subtropics

Sustainability in Practice

Gender, Justice and the Socio-Ecological Transformation of Land and Food Systems

Sustainable Farming Practices for Agrobiodiversity

Masterthesis

Colloquium

Ecological conditions and climate change

Students acquire knowledge about the structure and use of resources for agricultural production within their changing biophysical environment, including effects of agriculture on climate change and desertification. The module covers ecological conditions, climate change processes and implications for agricultural production systems.

Food security and sustainable food systems

Students learn to analyze agriculture and nutrition through a food systems lens and understand synergies and tradeoffs between human health and planetary health goals. Links between agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, diets, nutrition, and health are analyzed with empirical examples and case studies.

Conservation and use of genetic resources

Students are familiarized with the importance of genetic resources for agriculture and with methods and approaches to conserve and utilize them, including seed sciences, gene bank management, molecular genetics, and modern biotechnological approaches.

Agricultural production systems

Students acquire knowledge about the structure, use and effects of current plant and animal production systems in different environments of the subtropics and tropics, including crop and animal production systems with various climatic and socio-economic conditions.

Crop Physiology

The course provides an update on the basics of plant physiology with emphasis on physiological processes important for determination of crop yield, including metabolic pathways, resource acquisition, and physiological adaptations to stress situations.

Crop Breeding Research

This lecture presents highlights from classical crop breeding research and current topics and approaches, including domestication, genetic variation, phenotyping, molecular breeding tools, and modern approaches in breeding.

Production ecology

The module focuses on the ecology of crops and cropping systems, dealing with biotic interactions and applications of ecological theory for the design of sustainable cropping systems including crop diversification and ecosystem services provision.

Resource conservation

This module focuses on resource conservation in cropping systems, addressing abiotic interactions regarding water, crop nutrients and CO2, as well as applications for sustainable cropping system design through irrigation, tillage and rotation design.

Soil resources of the world

Students are introduced to the major soils of the world, their classification according to World Reference Base of Soil Resources, genesis, land-use options, and associated risks, with practical courses on soil classification procedures.

Crop ecology, water management and bioclimatology

Land use systems in the tropics and subtropics

Animal production systems in the tropics

Element cycles in tropical agroecosystems

Organic Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics

Crop and Ecosystem Analysis and Modelling

Horticultural Production and Research

Irrigation agriculture

Simulation of Agricultural and Biological Systems

Cropping system simulation for climate risk assessments

Ecological modeling for natural resource science and management

Spatial ecology and conservation biology

Climate-Smart Ecosystem Management

Ecological climatology

Introduction to Tropical Forestry

Basics of Central European Forestry

Soundscape Ecology: Theory and Passive Acoustic Monitoring

Genome Analysis in Plant Breeding

Crop Abiotic Stresses

Soil microbiology

Animal breeding and genetics

Advances in Plant Breeding Methodology

Projects in Crop Protection Research

Land use and land degradation

Development Economics

Decision Analysis and Forecasting in Agriculture

Agricultural Entomology

Agricultural Nematology

Sustainable Entrepreneurship & Venturing

An introduction to the Analysis of Complex Social-Ecological Systems

Agroforestry systems and practice

Current issues of research management

Scientific communication

Sustainability and Risk

International research management and proposal writing

Data Analysis and Visualization