Attention: Please note that the following shown courses, are only those courses which are approved by the Vice-Rectorate for Education and offered by the respective department/institute for the current academic year.

Compulsory modules

Climate change and social ecology
Grand challenges in the Anthropocene
Scenarios and models as tools to understand complex systems
Transformation pathways
Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches and processes
Field of thesis research

Elective modules

Specialisation 1: Climate dynamics and climate impacts
Compulsory specialisation modules
Climate dynamics
Atmospheric composition and climate
Numerical methods for climate science
Elective specialisation modules
Grand challenges in climate and biodiversity
Extreme events and Alpine hazards
Urban climate and environmental meteorology
Land-atmosphere interactions and land-climate dynamics
Impact of climate change on water resources
Carbon, nutrient, and water cycling in a changing climate
Specialisation 2: Social ecology of climate change
Compulsory specialisation modules
Biophysical concepts and methods of social ecology
Social-ecological transformation
Climate change mitigation: A socio-ecological perspective
Elective specialisation modules
Land system science and climate change
Social metabolism and climate change
Climate politics, justice, and conflict
Environmental history
Sustainable spatial development and energy transition
Specialisation 3: Climate crisis and transformative development
Compulsory specialisation modules
Gender, food systems and natural resources
Facilitating change for sustainable development
Political ecology of the climate crisis
Elective specialisation modules
Climate justice and security
Applied development research and sustainable development goals
System science in development
Negotiating change for sustainable development
Farming systems in a changing climate
Climate scholar activism
Elective modules – General elective modules
Elective modules – General elective modules
Food systems transformation in the context of global change
Climate change and global aspects in planning and spatial development
Sustainable cities, urban metabolism, and climate change
Projects in climate science and transformation
Actor-centred perspectives and pathways towards transformation
One module selected from specialisations not chosen
Specialisation 1: Climate dynamics and climate impacts
Climate dynamics
Atmospheric composition and climate
Numerical methods for climate science
Grand challenges in climate and biodiversity
Extreme events and Alpine hazards
Urban climate and environmental meteorology
Land-atmosphere interactions and land-climate dynamics
Impact of climate change on water resources
Carbon, nutrient, and water cycling in a changing climate
Specialisation 2: Social ecology of climate change
Biophysical concepts and methods of social ecology
Social-ecological transformation
Climate change mitigation: A socio-ecological perspective
Land system science and climate change
Social metabolism and climate change
Climate politics, justice, and conflict
Environmental history
Sustainable spatial development and energy transition
Specialisation 3: Climate crisis and transformative development
Gender, food systems and natural resources
Facilitating change for sustainable development
Political ecology of the climate crisis
Climate justice and security
Applied development research and sustainable development goals
System science in development
Negotiating change for sustainable development
Farming systems in a changing climate
Climate scholar activism