ECOLOGY AND BIODIVERSITY

    

1. Brief presentation of the (importance) of the discipline

Ecology is a scientific biology discipline that enables understanding of processes and changes in nature and the importance of diversity of life systems. The results of ecology are the basis for the considered use of resources and sustainable management, which is particularly important because of over-settlement and the changeability and burdens on all spheres of our planet, which is changing globally.

2. Basic aims of the study program

To educate masters with fundamental knowledge of ecological science, which is the basis for recognising the role of organisms on various levels of an ecosystem, for understanding processes and recognising changes in nature and in our immediate environment and for preventing and alleviating these changes.

3. Method of study

 

Regular and part-time.
In the 2011/12 academic year, the study program will be carried out in the form of regular study.
Thirty places will be available in the 2011/12 academic year, of which 10% (3 places) will be for foreign candidates. Studies will take place if at least 15 candidates enrol.

 

4. Duration of study

The level two master study program Ecology and Biodiversity lasts two years and amounts to 120 credit points. The program does not have individual fields of study.

 

5. Professional title obtained

After completion of studies, the student obtains the title master of ecology and biodiversity (MSc.), written after their name.

6. Employment possibilities for graduates

administrative institutions (ministries, inspection services, various institutes, municipalities), which prepare management plans for individual regions or ecosystems, decide on interventions and are responsible for monitoring the state of nature and the environment,

• in factories and production facilities whose activities are a burden on nature and the environment and must therefore be controlled and the negative effects alleviated
• in parks as advisors, preparers of professional assessments and wardens,
• researchers in research institutions, researchers and curators in museums,
• collaborants of institutions for environmental consultancy and independent researchers,
• collaborants in national and international non-governmental organisations.

  

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