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Forestry, Water and Landscape Management – (M.Sc.)

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences
Application Deadline: Exchange Students:15 June for the Winter Semester, 15 December for the Summer Semester; Degree Students: 15 February
Annual Tuition Fee: ≈ € 3,200 -
Location: Prague / Czech Republic / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴
Duration: 24 months Start Date: September
Educational Form:
  • Taught
Education Variants:
  • Fulltime
Languages: English 
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* Graduates have knowledge forestry in the World, including problems of forest communities conservation and their dissemination on larger area.
* Their knowledge are also about water management, i.e. problems of landscape desertification and vice versa, including some technical measures. Their knowledge allows them to suggest and to manage professional activities for revitalisation of the forest and landcsape ecosystems, destroyed by human activities.
* They have knowledge specific economic consequences, characteristic for forest management and landscape revitalisation, according to biotic and abiotic factors. Knowledge concerns latest findings in the field. The graduates knowledge serves as a basis for seminal thoughts for research. Graduates have critical awareness of the problems relating to their area of studies and interactions with areas, such as water management, landscape planning, nature conservation and technical measures.
* They understand principles of forest industry, afforestation and reforestation. They know to manage forests strongly influenced by air pollution. They also know methods landscape revitalisation as after floods as during the lack of the water (especially quality of the drinking water). However, they have knowledge of biological relationships on technical impacts to landscape and vice versa.
* They understand theories, concepts and methods, which correspond to employment in managerial shperes: production, services, trade, state administrancy, inernational organisations and corporations and NGOs. They have knowledge practical and theoretical forestry, specialized ecology, basic low standards, problems of the water in the landscape and its conservation, including its treatment.
* They exercise their theoretical knowledge in applied science, which allow them to work in areas of system assistence decision on the middle and top management, state administration of higher level even on international and NGOs.
* Specialised knowledge completes basic knowledge in economics, econometrics, management, marketing with emphasis on economic particularity of the forest, landscape, water and environment managements and other social sciences, such as psychology and sociology.
* Their acquired knowledge makes them qualified for studies in Ph. D, also abroad. programmes. They are fully aware of the limits of their knowledge and can conceive the contents of further studies in these areas.


Contents

* 1st year

Compulsory Subjects

Forestry Frames in Different Countries I.

Forest Ecology

Water Resources Management

Ecology and Ecological Methods

Landsacape ecolocigal applications

Forestry Frames in Different Countries II.

Forest Dendrology, Genetics and Tree Breeding

Classification of Vegetation

Forest Dendrology, Genetics and Tree Breeding (field practices)

Silviculture

Irrigation and Drainage

Irrigation and Drainage - Field lecture

Optional Subjects

Advanced meteorology

Special Forest Plantations

Forest Management in Polluted Area

Hydraulics

Soil Taxonomy, Survey and GIS

Physiology of Growth and Reproduction of Forest Trees

Special Silviculture I

Special Silviculture II

Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport

* 2nd year

Compulsory Subjects

Forest Management

Forest Management - FP

Logging and Wood Processing

GIS for Forestry and Landscape Management

Applied Hydraulic and Hydrology

Forest Protection

Forest Ecology - Field Excursion

Forest Enterprise Economics

Diploima thesis

Hydroinformatics

Optional Subjects

Advanced meteorology

Special Forest Plantations

Forest Management in Polluted Area

Hydraulics

Soil Taxonomy, Survey and GIS

Physiology of Growth and Reproduction of Forest Trees

Special Silviculture I

Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport

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Requirements

* Graduates from BSc programme Forest Engineering or BSc graduates with a solid background in forestry, forestry biology, mathematics and environmental management are the preferred candidates for the MSc programme.

* The entrance examination consists of English and a knowledge test concerning o be enrolled as degree students.
* Applicants must present a recognised and officialised BSc diploma in order to be enrolled in MSc degree studies.
* The programme is open for exchange students for one semester or one academic year in the framework of the EU LLP ERASMUS programme.

Accreditation

All study programmes taught at CULS are officially accredites by the the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.


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