Master ENR
Important links
- Planning: Weekly and annual planning, Digital study planner (ISA), Study fees, Absence notification
- Legal information: Study regulations, Reglements (mostly German)
- Information: Support and councelling, Voluntary courses, StudiApp
- Study Aa-Zz: all information alphabetically (German)
- Tools: Complesis, Collab, EventoWeb, Moodle (E-Learning), Webmail Office 365
- Contacts: Academic office and Study support
- Website: www.zhaw.ch/iunr/master/en
Modules and thesis
The MSc ENR has a modular structure and consists of 60 ECTS mandatory modules and 30 ECTS elective modules. The modules are divided into the following categories:
Modules on research methods
- Advanced spatial analysis (Elective module| 3 ECTS)
- Patterns and trends in environmental data (Elective module| 3 ECTS)
- Research methods (Elective module| 15 ECTS)
Modules on specialisation
- Advanced Life Cycle Assessment (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Agroecology and Food Systems (Elective module | 6 ECTS)
- Aquaculture Systems (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Biodiversity and Ecosystems (Elective module | 6 ECTS)
- Circular Economy Management (Elective module | 6 ECTS)
- CO2 Management in Companies and Local Authorities (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Ecological Engineering and Renewable energy (Elective module | 6 ECTS)
- Global Economic Geographies of Agriculture and Food Systems (Elective module | 6 ECTS)
- Natural Resource Management in Mountain Areas (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Natural Resource Management in Urban Areas (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Natural Resource Management in Emerging Economies (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Remote Sensing for Ecology (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Summer Schools (Elective module | 6 ECTS)
Modules on environment, society and responsibility
- Environmental Economics (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Environmental Mediation (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Intercultural Competence (Elective module | 2 ECTS)
- Leadership, Ethics, and Change (Elective module | 5 ECTS)
- System Change Lab (Elective module | 6 ECTS)
- Sustainability Science (Mandatory module | 3 ECTS)
Module to the Entrepreneurial Skills
- Disruption Days – Corporate Case and Leadership (Elective module | 2 ECTS)
- Disruption Days – Personal Resilience (Elective module | 2 ECTS)
- Regenerative Strategies and Innovation Processes (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Regenerative Business Models and Finance (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- 360° (Elective module | 4 ECTS)
Modules to the Master Studio
- Individual Specialisation module A (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Individual Specialisation module B (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Individual Specialisation module C (Elective module | 5 ECTS)
- Project Work in Research Group 1 (Mandatory module | 6 ECTS)
- Project Work in Research Group 2 (Mandatory module | 6 ECTS)
- Master Thesis (Mandatory module | 30 ECTS)
- Extended Master Thesis (Mandatory module I 45 ECTS)