Geography: Global Change and Sustainability

The aim of the English-language master’s programme Geography: Global Change and Sustainability is to train graduates to be able to identify challenges, changes and complex problems in geography from a natural and social science perspective in the context of global change and the sustainability. By following an interdisciplinary approach, the students will analyse and develop evidence-based solutions for current challenges in this field. The master’s programme deals with an international perspective on current theory-based geographical research on the causes and consequences of global change as well as social and environmental challenges in the context of sustainability and relevant fields of practice. A balance is pursued between thematic specialisation and embedding in a holistic context of Global Change and Sustainability.Graduates acquire comprehensive skills from relevant areas (specialisations: Migration and Population Dynamics, Socio-Economic Transformations, Earth Surface Dynamics and Management, Geoecology). Scientific principles as well as methodological and technical skills are conveyed through the combination of cross-specialization work and analysis techniques. These reflect the scale-dependent, spatio-temporal approaches to the dynamics of global change and sustainability inherent to geography.