Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (B. Eng.)
Department 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
8 semesters
Program Start
winter semester
Sem Contribution
86 euros
Study type
Full-Time Program
Language
German
Credits
240
Accreditation
AQAS (2013-2019) extended until 2022
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
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University entrance qualification
- Abitur
- Qualification for universities of applied science (Fachhochschulreife)
- Master craftsman
- or previous education or vocational training considered equivalent.
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Language Skills
- TestDAF Niveaustufe 4xTDN4
- DSH2
- or another acceptable German language certificate
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Further Requirements
Before starting the study program, an 8-week pre-study internship is required for admission.
The pre-study internship should be completed in suitable companies (e.g. landscape architecture and urban planning offices, garden and landscape construction companies), public authorities (municipal green space offices), scientific or similar institutions.
In justified exceptional cases, the pre-study internship can be made up by the end of the fourth semester at the latest.
If a vocational degree has been completed that is relevant to the degree program, proof of a pre-study internship is not required.
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!
Our eight-semester degree program with the degree “Bachelor of Engineering” covers a discipline that is extraordinarily broad both in terms of content and methods.
Besides the classic forms of an academic education (lectures, exercises, seminars), practical forms of teaching and learning characterize the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning program. That includes the 20-week practical semester integrated into the program, project work that starts in the third semester, participation in educational excursions in Germany and abroad, and the extensive inclusion of experienced practitioners in the program.
Studies are completed with the bachelor’s thesis, for which our students have a total of ten weeks. After this, they publicly defend the thesis.
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Occupational profile
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.
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Prospects
Careers
After completing this bachelor's degree program, you will have a professional degree that will enable you to work in especially the following areas:
- Planning and landscape architecture offices
- Expert agencies in public administration (federal, state, district, municipal)
- Management and construction management in building gardens, landscapes, and sports facilities
You will also have a degree that permits you to register with the all German states’ chamber of architects’ lists for architects and urban planners. This means you may use the professional title “Architektin oder Architekt in der Fachrichtung Landschaftsarchitektur.” This is a unique aspect that sets us apart from other universities of applied sciences.
Corresponding to the broad spectrum of topics covered in the program, after your degree you can also enter into many different careers including the following:
- Planning public green spaces and open spaces,
- Designing private gardens and home environments,
- Urban and open space planning in populated areas,
- Environmental and landscape planning in cultural landscapes characterized by agriculture and forestry including very natural landscape areas,
- Planning in the context of garden monument preservation,
- Management and coordination in garden landscape construction companies,
- Construction management when realizing gardens and green spaces,
- Management of public green and open spaces and larger private gardens
- and much more.
Continuing education
After finishing the Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), you have several possibilities for continuing your professional and academic education with us, that is, working toward a master’s degree.
You can complete the Master of Engineering (M.Eng) building on the bachelor’s degree program by completing the two-semester program Master of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.
In addition, after completing the bachelor’s program you can enter our international, English-language master’s program in Landscape Architecture (M.A., 4 semesters) or the master’s program in Nature Conservation and Landscape Planning (M.Sc., 4 semesters).
- Master in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
- Master in Landscape Architecture
- Master in Nature Conservation and Landscape Planning
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Requirements
Abitur, qualification for universities of applied science, master craftsman, or previous education or vocational training considered equivalent. In addition, an 8-week pre-study internship - which must be completed at the latest by the end of the fourth semester.
If a vocational degree has been completed that is relevant to the degree program, you do not need a pre-study internship.
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Tuition fees
No tuition fees are assessed for this bachelor’s program.
As at all other state universities, our students only pay a semester fee. -
Internationality
The 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.
Getting to know each other is also made possible by the international students who study at Anhalt University for a time. The exchange of international experiences can also be done with contact to the students in the international master's degree program Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) on campus.
Due to various contractual partnerships and internationally oriented research as well as the faculty’s work in national and international scientific associations, international interdisciplinary projects and work in international teams is offered and encouraged.
Agreements with the partners guarantee that coursework done abroad is recognized for your studies here.The ERASMUS program and the “mobility window” in the 7th semester make it easier to integrate a stay abroad in your program.
Program elements
Our very practically focused program is made up primarily of the following:
- Compulsory and elective modules
- Compulsory projects 1-4
- Internship (sem. 6)
- Mobility window (sem. 7)
- Bachelor’s thesis (sem. 8)
Our degree program
Degree program advising
Curriculum and schedules
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1st semester
Schedule
- Start of teaching period: October 1
- Duration: 15 weeks
- Teaching methods: Lectures, exercises, internships, project
- Exams: 2 x 2 weeks
- Credits: 29<b/>
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Compulsory modules
- Naturwissenschaftliche Grundlagen
- Grdl. des Landschaftsbaues und der Pflanzenverwendung (Continuation in 2nd semester)
- Grundlagen der Planung
- Geomatik und Landschaftsinformatik (Continuation in 2nd semester)
- Grundlagen des Gestaltens und Entwerfens (Continuation in 2nd semester)
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2nd semester
Schedule
- Start of teaching period: April 1
- Duration: 15 weeks
- Teaching methods: Lectures, exercises, internships
- Exams: 2 x 2 weeks
- Credits: 31
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Compulsory modules
- Grdl. des Landschaftsbaues und der Pflanzenverwendung (Continuation from 1st semester)
- Geomatik und Landschaftsinformatik (Continuation from 1st semester)
- Naturschutz und Landschaftsökologie
- Grundlagen des Gestaltens und Entwerfens (Continuation from 1st semester)
- Praktische Vegetationskunde (Continuation in 3rd semester)
- Informationstechnologien in der Landschaftsarchitektur
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3rd semester
Schedule
- Start of teaching period: October 1
- Duration: 15 weeks
- Teaching methods: Lectures, exercises, internships, project
- Exams: 2 x 2 weeks
- Credits: 30
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Compulsory modules
- Praktische Vegetationskunde (Continuation from 2nd semester)
- Grundlagen der Objektplanung
- Grundlagen der Vegetationstechnik und Baukonstruktion
- Umweltplanung u. räumliche Gesamtplanung
- 1st project
- Pflanzenverwendung (Continuation in 4th semester)
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4th semester
Schedule
- Start of teaching period: April 1
- Duration: 15 weeks
- Teaching methods: Lectures, exercises, internships, project
- Exams: 2 x 2 weeks
- Credits: 31
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Compulsory modules
- Pflanzenverwendung (Continuation from 3rd semester)
- Freiraumplanung
- Ausführungsplanung und Ausschreibung
- Sozioökonomische Grundlagen
- 2nd project
- A module is to be chosen from the elective modules
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5th semester
Schedule
- Start of teaching period: October 1
- Duration: 15 weeks
- Teaching methods: Lectures, exercises, internships, project
- Exams: 2 x 2 weeks
- Credits: 31
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Compulsory modules
- Bauabwicklung
- Verwaltungs-, Planungs- und Umweltrecht
- Städtebau
- 3rd project
- Elective modules totaling at least 10 credits are to be chosen
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6th semester
Schedule
- Internship: 20 weeks
- Credits: 30
Compulsory modules
- Internship (More information can be found in the internship regulations)
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7th semester
Schedule
- Start of teaching period: October 1
- Duration: 15 weeks
- Teaching methods: Lectures, exercises, internships, project
- Exams: 2 x 2 weeks
- Credits: 30
Compulsory modules
- Elective modules totaling at least 30 credits are to be chosen
Special aspect
- Mobility window - 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
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8th semester
Schedule
- Start of teaching period: April 1
- Duration: 22 weeks
- Teaching methods: Lectures, exercises, internships, project, bachelor’s project and colloquium
- Exams: 2 x 2 weeks
- Credits: 28
Compulsory modules
- 4th project
- Internship (late 8th semester)
- Bachelor’s thesis
- Bachelor’s colloquium
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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:
- Baugeschichte
- Bauleitplanung und Bodenordnung
- Bodenschutz und bodenkundliche Feldmethoden
- Fernerkundung und UIS
- Freiraumplanerische Stegreife
- Gartendenkmalpflege
- Gemeindliche Landschaftsplanung und Umweltprüfung
- Landschafts- und Gehölzpflege
- Naturschutzrechtliche Eingriffsregelung sowie Umweltprüfungen
- Objektplanungspraxis
- Planung von Tourismus- u. Freizeitanlagen
- Spezielle Pflanzenverwendung
- Sportstättenbau und -unterhaltung
- Stadt- und Freiraumentwicklung
- Studium generale
- Technikim Landschaftsbau
- Umweltüberwachung
- Visuelle Techniken
- Wasserorientierte Stadtentwicklung
Exams
Exams complete a module and give our students the chance to prove what they have learned. Besides classic written and oral exams, there is coursework, seminar papers, and the public defense of project and final papers.
Important: Registration for bachelor’s exams is binding. It must be done using HIS-QIS at the latest five days before the exam date.
Students who do not show up to exams for which they have registered and did not cancel their registration by 5 days before the exam day through the HIS-QIS online portal receive the grade 5 (fail). Registration for the exam must be cancelled using HIS-QIS at the latest five days before the exam date. Exceptions are illnesses and other unforeseeable, exceptional events.
Registration for exams other than those in your own degree program that cannot be done using HIS-QIS should be done with a form sent directly to the examiner. This form is available in the Examinations Office.
For oral exams, it is also necessary to sign up on the examiner’s list of time slots.
Formalities
Study regulations
Information on studies and formal requirements for exams
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