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
- Advances life cycle assessment (Elective module| 3 ECTS)
- Agriculture for the future (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)
- CO2 management in companies and local authorities (Elective module| 3 ECTS)
- Ecological engineering and renewable energy (Elective module| 6 ECTS)
- Global economic geographics of agriculture and food systems (Elective module| 6 ECTS)
- Individual specialization module A (Elective module| 3 ECTS)
- Individual specialization module B (Elective module| 3 ECTS)
- Individual specialization module C (Elective module| 5 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| 4 ECTS)
- Regenerative Strategies and Innovation Processes (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Regenerative Business Models and Finance (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Disruption Days – Personal Resilience (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
Modules on environment, society and responsibility
- Behavioral change (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Environmental economics (German | Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Environmental ethics (Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Environmental mediation (German | Elective module | 3 ECTS)
- Sustainability science (German | Mandatory module | 3 ECTS)
Module to the Entrepreneurial Skills
- Intercultural Competence (Elective module | 3 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)
Modules to the Master Studio
- 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)