MA in Geohazards and Climate Change
Area of Studies
geography, geology
Degree
Master
Degree (in English)
Master
Language(s)
- English
Course Duration
2 years
Department
Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences
Tuition and Other Fees
Tuition fee: the semester tuition fee is: PLN 1 000,00 (the fee can be paid in 4 installments of PLN 250,00 each).
Application Deadline(s)
03.09.2024
Course Description
Course Profile
The aim of the course Geohazards and Climate Change (II level, general academic, Earth and Environmental Sciences discipline) taught at the Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences (FGGS) Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) is to educate students in the field of knowledge of climate change and geohazards and to develop skills in identification of environmental hazards, in particularly those associated with changing climate. The objective of the course is to equip Students in tools for strategic planning of mitigation and adaptation for environmental changes, both at the level of the natural environment and social processes. The courses within the Geohazards and Climate Change are the effect of international experience of the researchers responsible for the programme of the study.
Example of courses
- Introduction to geohazards
- Introduction to climate system and contemporary climate change
- Skills of write-up (papers, reports, presentations)
- Environmental sciences: theory, field and laboratory workshop
- Environmental and social effects of natural disasters
- Methods of climate change reconstruction
- Geohazards assessment
- Disaster risk management
Graduate competencies
One of the main elements of the curriculum is to develop awareness and sensitivity of the graduates to social processes disrupted by the changing climate, in particular to socio-environmental conflicts, which are the results of the changing environmental conditions and arising geohazards. The course is finalised with the master' thesis written in English.Career prospects
The alumni of the proposed master degree course will be prepared to work within administrative and local governmental offices, non-governmental organizations, private enterprises, businesses and will be prepared to continue the academic career.
Contact
Karolina Leszczyńska, PhD
phone number: +48 618296035
e-mail: kar.leszczynska@amu.edu.pl
Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
ul. Wieniawskiego 1
61-712 Poznań, Poland
phone: +48 61 829 4434, +48 61 829 4442
email: welcome@amu.edu.pl
www: http://www.international.amu.edu.pl
Study programmes
- B.A. in English Linguistics: Theories, Interfaces, Technologies
- BA in Applied Linguistics, specialty Applied Linguistics and Intercultural Communication (English and German from the start)
- BA in Central European and Balkan Studies
- BA in English Studies: Literature and Culture
- BA in European Legal Studies
- BA in German Language and Intercultural Studies (Słubice)
- BA in Global Communication
- BA in International Relations
- BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences
- BSc in Chemistry
- Environmental Management at CAU and Environmental Protection at AMU
- Inter-University Programme of Interdisciplinary PhD Studies at the 'Artes Liberales' Academy
- MA Applied Linguistics, specialty Empirical Linguistics and Language Documentation
- MA in Balkan Studies
- MA in Central Europe in the International Perspective
- MA in Cultural Studies: Intercultural Communication
- MA in Digital Entrepreneurship
- MA in English Studies: Language and Communication in Healthcare
- MA in Ethnology: Cultural Differences and Transnational Process
- MA in Geohazards and Climate Change
- MA in International Relations
- MA in Journalism and Social Communication
- MA in Language-Mind-Technology
- MA in Mediterraean Studies
- MA in Modern Languages - Empirical Linguistics and Language Documentation
- MA in Philology – Empirical Linguistics and Language Documentation
- MA in Public Governance, Specialization: Good Governance and Civil Society
- MaMaSelf Master in Material Science
- Master of Arts in English Studies: Language and Communication in Healthcare
- Master of Intercultural Communication Studies (MICS)
- MSc in Biotechnology
- MSc in Chemistry
- MSc in Environmental Protection
- MSc in Physics of Advanced Materials for Energy Processing
- PhD programme in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- SERP-Chem