Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (B.Eng.)
Department of Agriculture, Ecotrophology, and Landscape Development
Content
• Principles of natural sciences
• Designing and drafting
• Information technologies in landscape architecture
• Administrative, planning, and environmental law
• Vegetation technology and plant use
• Internships and project work
Degree
Bachelor of Engineering
Department
Agriculture, Ecotrophology, and Landscape Development
Location
Bernburg
Duration
7 semesters
Program Start
winter semester
Sem Contribution
96 euros
Application period
International Uni Assist15.03. – 15.09. (winter)
National SSC Portal15.05. – 15.09. (winter)
Course content and objectives
The focus of the bachelor's degree program is on planning the design and development of open spaces in urban and rural areas. Students develop ideas and plans that have direct positive effects on the living environment - for example by using plants. We use the soil not only in cities and towns but also in natural spaces. In the future, the focus there will be maintaining biodiversity. For up and coming experts in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, that is why obtaining knowledge of the relevant methods plays a key role in addition to gaining subject expertise.
Students are prepared for analyzing, planning, designing, and implementing activities. They are to be enabled to unite the aesthetics and usability of open spaces in populated areas as well as open landscapes with the requirements of environmental protection and nature conservation. Besides conveying planning competences, how to practically implement these plans is taught, especially in the context of landscape architecture, landscape design, and landscape maintenance.
Requirements
-
University entrance qualification
- Abitur
- Qualification for universities of applied science (Fachhochschulreife)
- Master craftsman
- or previous education or vocational training considered equivalent.
-
Language skills
- TestDAF Niveaustufe 4xTDN4
- DSH2
- or another acceptable German language certificate
Career Opportunities
The professional tasks of landscape architects include the ecological, technical, economic, and social designing and planning of landscapes and open spaces on various scales, creating urban development plans, and participating in overall spatial planning at the local and regional levels as well as advising, supervising, and representing clients when planning, executing, and monitoring projects.
With the bachelor’s degree, our students obtain a professionally qualifying degree that enables them to work in public administration at all levels (federal, state, district, municipal, and in expert agencies), in private planning offices and expert companies, in non-governmental organizations, and in management and construction management in companies working in garden, landscape, and sport facility construction.
Corresponding to the broad education this bachelor's degree program provides, our graduates’ career areas range from private gardens to the green and open spaces around their cities and urban recreation areas to cultural landscapes characterized by agriculture and forestry as well as natural landscape spaces.
An important and unique aspect of the degree program is that our graduates have a degree that permits them to register with the states’ chamber of architects’ lists for architects and urban planners. This means they may use the professional title “Architektin oder Architekt in der Fachrichtung Landschaftsarchitektur.”
With the B.Eng. degree, you can then complete our four-semester program Master in Landscape Architecture!
The degree program in pictures (in German)
Program-specific questions
Consulting offer
https://www.hs-anhalt.de/studieren/service-und-beratung/mentoring-programm-zum-hochschulstart.html
General Questions
(not program-specific)Notes
- Unlimited number of spots in the program
- no fees
Regulations and Conditions
Landschaftsarchitektur und Umweltplanung - Bachelor - Studien- und Prüfungsordnung - 2024
Landschaftsarchitektur und Umweltplanung - Bachelor - Studien- und Prüfungsordnung 2013
The degree program
Our eight-semester degree program leads to a “Bachelor of Engineering” and covers a discipline that is extraordinarily broad both in terms of content and methods.
Besides classic academic education (lectures, practical courses, seminars), practical types of instruction and learning are included in the degree program in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. This includes the integrated 20-week practical semester, project work commencing in the third semester, participation in educational excursions in Germany and abroad and the extensive inclusion of experienced practitioners in the program.
The program concludes with the bachelor’s thesis, for which our students have a total of ten weeks. After submission, students must publicly defend their thesis in a colloquium.
-
Career profile
The professional tasks of landscape architects include the ecological, technical, economic and social planning and design of open spaces of different scales and landscapes, the preparation of urban development plans and participation in overall spatial planning at local and supra-local level as well as consulting, supporting and representing clients in the planning, implementation and monitoring of projects.
Further insights into the professional field of landscape architecture and environmental planning are provided, for example, by the following institutions:
-
Prospects
Career opportunities
By completing this bachelor's degree program, you will earn a professional degree particularly qualifying you for employment in the following fields:
- Planning and landscape architecture firms
- Specialized authorities in public administration (federal government, states, counties, municipalities)
- Management and construction supervision in garden, landscape and sports ground construction
In addition, you will receive a degree permitting you to register your name on the chamber of architects’ list for architects and urban planners in all German states. Therefore, you may use the professional title “Architektin oder Architekt in der Fachrichtung Landschaftsarchitektur” (architect specializing in landscape architecture). This is one of our key unique selling points compared to other universities.
In accordance with our comprehensive degree program, a wide range of professional activities and fields are also open to you after graduation, including the following areas:
- Planning of public green spaces and open spaces,
- Design of private gardens and the residential environment,
- Urban and open space planning in populated areas,
- Environmental and landscape planning in areas ranging from agricultural and forestry dominated cultural landscapes to nature-oriented landscape areas,
- Planning in the context of garden monument preservation,
- Management and coordination in garden landscaping companies,
- Construction management during the building of gardens as well as green open spaces,
- Management of public green and open spaces as well as larger private gardens
- and many more.
Continuing education
After graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) degree, we offer you many options for continuing professional and academic education, i.e. to obtain a master's degree.
You can obtain the Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) degree, building on the bachelor's degree program, by completing the two-semester master’s degree program in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.
In addition, you have the option of joining our international English-language master’s degree program in Landscape Architecture (M.A., 4 semesters) or the master’s degree program in Nature Conservation and Landscape Planning (M.Sc., 4 semesters) after completing your bachelor's degree program.
-
Internationality
Students have the possibility to gain practical experience abroad during a study abroad program at one of Anhalt University’s partner universities or with a stay abroad at a foreign institution. Multiple-day excursions abroad also offer this opportunity.
Mutual exchange with international students staying at Anhalt University for a limited time is also possible. Students can share international experiences, for example, by meeting on campus with students from the international master's degree program in Landscape Architecture (MLA).
Due to contractual relationships and internationally oriented research
as well as through the participation of lecturers in national and
international scientific societies, the program also offers international interdisciplinary projects and work in international teams
The agreements with the contractual partners guarantee that coursework completed abroad can be recognized for the local degree program.
The ERASMUS program and the "mobility window" in the 7th semester make it easier to plan a semester abroad into the program sequence.
Building blocks of the degree program
The module concept of this degree program is divided into compulsory and elective modules as well as projects. The elective modules offer an early deepening of program contents and focal points of interest. The program always begins in the winter semester on October 1 of each year.
The core components of our practice-oriented degree program at a glance:
- Compulsory & elective modules
- Projects 1-4 (from 3rd semester)
- Professional excursions
- Practical semester (6th semester, 20 weeks professional internship)
- Bachelor’s thesis (8th semester)
-
1st semester
Schedule
- Start of teaching period: October 1
- Duration: 15 weeks
- Learning/instruction types: Lectures, practical courses, lab/pool classes, project
- Examinations: 2x2 weeks
- Credits: 29
Compulsory modules
- Naturwissenschaftliche Grundlagen
- Grundlagen des Landschaftsbaues und der Pflanzenverwendung (continued in the 2nd semester)
- Grundlagen der Planung
- Geomatik und Landschaftsinformatik (continued in the 2nd semester)
- Grundlagen des Gestaltens und Entwerfens (continued in the 2nd semester)
-
2nd semester
Schedule
- Start of teaching period: April 1
- Duration: 15 weeks
- Learning/instruction types: Lectures, practical courses, lab/pool classes
- Examinations: 2x2 weeks
- Credits: 31
Compulsory modules
- Grundlagen des Landschaftsbaues und der Pflanzenverwendung (continuation from the 1st semester)
- Geomatik und Landschaftsinformatik (continuation from the 1st semester)
- Naturschutz und Landschaftsökologie
- Grundlagen des Gestaltens und Entwerfens (continuation from the 1st semester)
- Praktische Vegetationskunde (continued in the 3rd semester)
- Informationstechnologien in der Landschaftsarchitektur
-
3rd semester
Schedule
- Start of teaching period: October 1
- Duration: 15 weeks
- Learning/instruction types: Lectures, practical courses, lab/pool classes, project
- Examinations: 2x2 weeks
- Credits: 30
Compulsory module
- Praktische Vegetationskunde (continuation from the 2nd semester)
- Grundlagen der Objektplanung
- Grundlagen der Vegetationstechnik und Baukonstruktion
- Umweltplanung u. räumliche Gesamtplanung
- First project
- Pflanzenverwendung (continued in the 4th semester)
-
4th semester
Schedule
- Start of teaching period: April 1
- Duration: 15 weeks
- Learning/instruction types: Lectures, practical courses, lab/pool classes, project
- Examinations: 2x 2 weeks
- Credits: 31
Compulsory modules
- Pflanzenverwendung (continuation from the 3rd semester)
- Freiraumplanung
- Ausführungsplanung und Ausschreibung
- Sozioökonomische Grundlagen
- 2nd project
- Elective module
-
5th semester
Schedule
- Start of teaching period: October 1
- Duration: 15 weeks
- Learning/instruction types: Lectures, practical courses, lab/pool classes, project
- Examinations: 2x2 weeks
- Credits: 31
Compulsory modules
- Bauabwicklung
- Verwaltungs-, Planungs- und Umweltrecht
- Städtebau
- 3rd project
- Elective modules amounting to a min. of 10 credits must be chosen
-
6th semester
Schedule
- Internship: 20 weeks
- Credits: 30
Compulsory module
- Internship (see the internship regulations for more information)
-
7th semester
Schedule
- Start of teaching period: October 1
- Duration: 15 weeks
- Learning/instruction types: Lectures, practical courses, lab/pool classes, project
- Examinations: 2x2 weeks
- Credits: 30
Compulsory modules
- elective modules amounting to a min. 30 credits must be chosen
Special aspect
- Semester at another domestic or foreign institution (Mobilitätsfenster) – it is recommended that students use the entire 7th semester for a subject-related stay abroad; the stay can be recognized as coursework by previous agreement and upon request
For more information about the internship or semester abroad, please contact the International Office of Anhalt University.
-
8th semester
Schedule
- Start of teaching period: April 1
- Duration: 22 weeks
- Learning/instruction types: Lectures, practical courses, lab/pool classes, projects, bachelor’s thesis and colloquium
- Examinations: 2x2 weeks
- Credits: 28
Compulsory modules
- 4th project
- Internships (at the latest in the 8th semester)
- Bachelor’s thesis
- Bachelor’s colloquium
-
Elective modules
Elective modules are important starting in the 4th semester. They can and must be chosen in addition to the compulsory modules listed above. You can choose from the following:
- Bodenschutz und bodenkundliche Feldmethoden
- Fernerkundung und UIS
- Gartendenkmalpflege
- Naturschutzrechtliche Eingriffsregelung sowie Umweltprüfungen
- Objektplanungspraxis
- Umweltüberwachung
- Baugeschichte
- Bauleitplanung und Bodenordnung
- Freiraumplanerische Stegreife
- Gemeindliche Landschaftsplanung und Umweltprüfung
- Landschafts- und Gehölzpflege
- Spezielle Pflanzenverwendung
- Sportstättenbau und -unterhaltung
- Stadt- und Freiraumentwicklung
- Technik im Landschaftsbau
- Visuelle Techniken
- Studium generale
Projects
serve as a preparation for the bachelor’s thesis. Through project work, students learn how to work on a scientific topic including writing a scientific report and defending it.
The project is subject to the formal requirements of a bachelor's thesis; however, it is less extensive and often completed as teamwork.
The topic of the project can be directed towards the future bachelor's thesis and represent a preliminary contribution.
The defense is usually a colloquium similar to a bachelor's defense. As an exception, students can also choose, in consultation with their supervisor, other forms of defending their project such as giving a presentation at a conference or in a lecture.
During the program, students have to complete four compulsory projects that they can choose from a catalog of topics offered each semester. These projects are not thematically bound and take place in the 3rd to 5th and 8th semester.
Degree Program Advisor
Project results
Selection of completed student projects
Project resultsProject partners
List of our practice partners for student projects
Project certificate
To the download areaWorking on a project
Download instructions (only in German)Internship
The internship is an integral part of the degree program. It serves the practical application of theoretical knowledge acquired in the degree program, the teaching of social skills within the working world as well as the motivation and orientation for the subsequent stages of studies.
Proof of an internship lasting at least 20 weeks in suitable companies, authorities, scientific or similar institutions is required. A total of 26 credits are awarded for this internship.
Internships will be carried out according to the internship regulations of the degree program.
Students may choose a mentor from Anhalt University of Applied Sciences to supervise them during their internship. Before the start of the internship, the academic mentor must confirm by signature that:
- they will act as the mentor,
- an internship task is submitted in writing,
- the internship may be successfully completed based on the profile and organization of the company.
Internship regulations
Download (only in German)Internship forms
Download area & loginInternship offers
Current internship offers
Excursions
Excursions take students and lecturers to destinations at a national and international level and are an important part of the project study. They can be part of modules or sub-modules or take place separately. On excursions of one to several days, we meet professional practitioners and researchers and visit important or undiscovered places of special professional interest – or one of our partner universities. Depending on how the excursion is set up by students and lecturers....
Excursion reports
View excursionsWorkshops
In the workshops assigned to the field of landscape development, our students can apply or gain additional practical knowledge under supervision or independently. Student assistants are available in selected workshop areas to help students with, e.g. paper print products.
Print Service
Workshop areaGaLaBau workshop
Workshop area3D workshop (ego.INKUBATOR)
Workshop areaStaff
Professors
-
How to apply?
Information on the application process can be found at: https://www.hs-anhalt.de/studieren/wege-ins-studium/online-bewerbung.html Use the following link to our Online-Application-Portal: https://sscportal.ssc.hs-anhalt.de Here you can apply easily and simply for the study program of your choice in compliance with the applicable deadlines. We appreciate your interest and your application!
-
How to apply?
Information on the application process can be found at: https://www.hs-anhalt.de/studieren/wege-ins-studium/online-bewerbung.html Use the following link to our Online-Application-Portal: https://sscportal.ssc.hs-anhalt.de Here you can apply easily and simply for the study program of your choice in compliance with the applicable deadlines. We appreciate your interest and your application!