Modulstudien Naturale: Science and sustainability
Modulstudien Naturale: Science and sustainability (Module studies)
Modulstudien Naturale: Science and sustainability is an orientation program offered at FAU, which you can study for one or two semesters. During this time, you can attend lectures, seminars and tutorials at the Faculty of Sciences and further modules offered at FAU that are related to sustainability. As these modules are also offered in Bachelor’s degree programs at FAU, if you decide to continue your studies, any module examinations you have completed may be accredited toward your chosen degree program. Students are also enrolled students as defined by the Bavarian Innovation in Higher Education Act.
- Degree
- Certificate (Module studies)
- Duration of studies in semester
- 1
- Start of degree program
- Summer semester, Winter semester
- Study location
- Erlangen
- Number of students
- 1-50
- Subject group
- Mathematics, Natural sciences
- Special ways to study
- Orientation/Module studies
- Teaching language
- completely in German
- Admission Requirements
- No Admissions Restrictions
- Keywords
- Biology, Biomathematics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Sustainability
What is the degree program about?
Modulstudien Naturale: Science and Sustainability (MSN) prepares first-year students for entry into the Bachelor’s degree programs at the Faculty of Sciences as well as the Bachelor’s degree programs at FAU related to sustainability. The program is particularly suitable as preparation for all courses with fundamental content from biology, chemistry, geosciences, mathematics and physics.
The program is suitable for applicants with a university entrance qualification, who are particularly interested in a scientific program or the interdisciplinary topic of sustainability but are not quite ready to decide on the program they want to study. In Modulstudien Naturale, you can deepen the knowledge you have acquired from school and learn fundamental and interdisciplinary skills that you will need to study successfully.
You also have the opportunity in the module program to take language courses for improving or acquiring language skills in preparation for a stay abroad or studying a Master’s program that is taught in English. Module program students are treated as enrolled students in the first university semester, but they are not counted as being in the first subject semester. They are not eligible for BAföG funding.
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The standard duration of study for Modulstudien Naturale is one semester. However, you may re-register once and extend the orientation program by one semester. Generally, the modules and module examinations are based on the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) which is an indication of the program workload.
One ECTS credit corresponds to approximately 30 hours of work. A minimum of 10 ECTS credits in science compulsory electives or sustainability compulsory electives is required to earn either the science or sustainability certificates. Students can earn both certificates.
The module program consists of compulsory electives for the science certificate and the sustainability certificate and additional electives:
Science compulsory electives- Principles of cell biology and genetics
- Molecular biology
- Introduction to chemistry
- Physics 1
- Experimental physics I
- Physics for minor subject students
- Mathematics for scientists
- Mathematics for Data Science 1
- Mathematics for Data Science 2
- Earth as a system for scientists
- Minerals and rocks for minor subject students (for geography students)
Sustainability elective modules
- FAU against CO2 lecture series
- Climate change and international climate policy
- Blue Engineering – social and environmental responsibility for engineering
- Foundations of environmental economics
- Climate change seminar
- Resources and sustainability seminar
- Applied geology I (hydrogeology)
Elective modules
- Elective modules: Introduction to toxicology for scientists, Introduction to the Hazardous Substances Ordinance (GefStoffV), Climate change seminar, Introduction to mathematical data analysis, Structural physics /Crystallography, Earth as a system for scientists, Business administration I, Microeconomics, Introduction to philosophy, Market and customer analytics: From data to decisions in marketing, Introduction to energy markets, Foundations of business and corporate ethics, Conceptual modeling, Biology for minor subject students, Foundations of applied university mathematics (vhb) etc.
- Key qualifications from modules offered by the department and other key qualifications offered at FAU; please refer to further information about key qualifications on www.ziwis.fau.de
- Language courses, particularly „C1 English vocabulary and usage for physics“ offered by the Virtual University of Bavaria (www.vhb.org)
You should choose modules based on your interests and prior knowledge and bearing in mind the skills required for admission to specific Bachelor’s programs. With the exception of most language courses, the Bachelor’s level modules that can be studied for Modulstudien Naturale will be taught in German.
A sufficient number of modules will be offered each semester to ensure that you can start the program in either the summer or winter semester. An overview is included in Appendix 1 of the degree programs and examination regulations. The modules offered will be announced before the start of the lecture period on the Modulstudien Naturale website.
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- Admission requirements (first semester)
- No Admissions Restrictions
- Application deadline winter semester
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30.09.
- Application deadline summer semester
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30.03.
- Details and notes
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The application deadline for international applicants is July 15th for the winter semester and January 15th for the summer semester.
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