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Study Program

The program is organized in four major module areas, and encompasses a total of 120 ECTS credit points (CP) in four semesters. The module areas are:

  1. Experimental Geosciences (core classes, CC) 14 CP.
  2. Research Techniques (RT), including three one-semester long research projects with research reports, 69 CP.
  3. Elective courses (11 CP) in any of the following:
    • The solid Earth.
    • Solid state physics.
    • Material sciences and catalysis.
    • Information technology.
    • Crystallography.
    • Environmental geochemistry.
  4. Master thesis 26 CP. To be completed during the final semester of the curriculum.

A tentative class list distributed over the four semesters looks like this:

Class Type Hours/
week		 CP
Semester 1 (Winter Semester)
Diffraction Methods (CC) Lecture 2 2
Exercises to Diffraction Methods (CC) Exercises 1 2
High Pressure Experimental Techniques (CC) Lecture/Lab Course 2 2
Literature Research (RT) Seminar 2 3
Research Seminar (RT) Seminar 2 2
Research Practice (RT) Lab Practice 25 16
Elective Course (e.g. System of the Solid Earth) 2 2
Sum 36 29
 
Semester 2 (Summer Semester)
Spectroscopic Methods (CC) Lecture 2 2
Exercises to Spectroscopic Methods (CC) Exercises 1 2
Introduction to Thermodynamics (CC) Lecture 2 2
Exercises to Thermodynamics (CC) Exercises 1 2
Literature Research (RT) Seminar 2 3
Research Seminar (RT) Seminar 2 2
Research Practice (RT) Lab Practice 25 16
Elective (e.g. Introduction to Geophysics) 2 2
Elective (e.g. Introduction to Geodynamics) 3 3
Sum 40 35
 
Semester 3 (Winter Semester)
Literature Seminar (RT) Seminar 2 3
Research Seminar (RT) Seminar 2 2
Research Practice (RT) Lab Practice 25 16
Elective (e.g. Planetary Geology) 2 2
Elective (e.g. Numerical Methods in Geophysics) 3 3
Sum 34 26
 
Semester 4 (Summer Semester)
Literature Seminar (RT) Seminar 2 3
Research Seminar (RT) Seminar 2 3
Master Thesis 26
Sum 32

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