Compulsory courses MSc programme

Important notice for students of the 1st year:

The compulsory course "Climate Science Workshop I" takes place in the week before the autumn semester at the University of Bern officially starts. Please save these dates in your agenda and plan to be in Switzerland timely!

• Climate Sciences Workshop I
• Climate Sciences Workshop II
• Graduate Seminar Climate Sciences
• Master Thesis Workshop I
• Master Thesis Workshop II

Elective courses MSc programme

Graduate School Elective Courses

• Oeschger Lectures I
• Oeschger Lectures II
• Climate, Air Pollution and Agriculture
• Quantitative Paleolimnology
• Dendroecological Field Course

Institute of Plant Sciences

• Advanced Plant Biology: Plant Nutrient Dynamics and Ecophysiology
• Plant Metabolism
• Block Course A: Impact of Climate Change and Extreme Events on Plant Productivity, Metabolism and Senescence
• Laboratory Safety
• Paleoecology and Paleoclimatology of the Alps and their Forelands
• Advanced Plant Biology: Paleoecology
• Paleoclimatological and Paleoecological Excursion to the Swiss Plateau and the Alps.
• Holocene Vegetation History of the Central and Southern Alps
• Global Change Ecology

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

• Environmental Radionuclides and Nuclear Dating
• Atmospheric and Aerosol Chemistry
• Environmental Chemistry

Institute of Geological Sciences

• Quaternary Dating Course
• Unconsolidated Quaternary Sediments ind Drillholes and Outcropts
• Environmental- and Limnogeology (incl. field course)
• Quaternary Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment
• Surface Processes, Geomorphology
• Sedimentary Environments
• Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
• X-Ray Powder Diffraction

Institute of Geography

• Large-scale Climate Variability
• Boundary-Layer and Mountain Meteorology
• Methods of Climate Reconstruction
• Earth's Regional Climatology
• Remote Sensing in Climatology
• Weather Analysis and Forecasting
• Meteo Today – Discussion
• Micrometeorology Field Course
• Quaternary Climate Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems: Concepts and Observations
• Paleosols and Paleolimnology
• Soil and Lake Sediments as Indicators of Environmental and Climate Change (Excursions/Field Days)
• Field Course Paleogeoecology and Soils
• Climate Risk Assessment
• Seminar in Climatology and Climate Risks
• Philosophical issues in understanding global change

Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science

• Multivariate Statistics
• Linear Models and Regression I
• Linear Models and Regression II
• Statistics in Climate Sciences I
• Statistics in Climate Sciences II

Physics Institute/Institute of Applied Physics

• Atmospheric Dynamics
• Introduction to Climate and Environmental Physics
• Stable Isotopes
• Glaciology
• Introduction to Climate Modelling including Computer Lab
• Carbon Cycle
• Atmospheric Physics
• Radiative Transfer

Department of Economics

• Climate Economics: Integrated Assessment
• Intertemporal Allocation of Natural Resources
• Climate Economics: Scientific and Economic Foundations
• Resource Economics
• Environmental Economics: Introduction
• Political Economy of Climate Change
• Microeconomics II

Institute of Political Science

• Water Policy

Institute of History

• Introduction into Historical Climatology

Institute of European and International Economic Law

• Selected Topics in International Economic Law
• International Environmental Law
• The International and European Law on Climate Change

Courses PhD programme

• NCCR Climate International Summer School
• OCCR Young Researchers Meeting
• Oeschger Lectures I
• Oeschger Lectures II

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