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Geographie / Geography (minor subject in a combined bachelor’s degree)

Program: Geographie / Geography
Degree: depends on the major chosen
Program option: minor subject in a combined bachelor's degree
Study model: combined bachelor's degree
Program length: 6/8 semesters / 3/4 years (180/ 210 ECTS points) (depending on the combination)
Start: Winter semester 

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Even at an early stage of your studies, you can acquire specialist skills from the sub-areas of geography and focus on human geography, physical geography or relations between man and the environment. Lectures in geoinformatics, cartography, statistics and other field and laboratory methods provide the ideal preparation for advanced modules, which teach planning skills for location analysis and environmental planning, for example.

Prospects

The minor subject “Geography” will help you to extend your professional qualifications profile, which is decisively shaped by the choice of your major subject.
The abilities and skills acquired in the minor subject can be used in the following profession fields in particular:

• spatial planning in the broadest sense,
• environment, nature, landscape,
• development cooperation,
• information and documentation,
• geospatial information technology

A minor subject will help you to extend your professional qualifications profile, which is decisively shaped by the choice of your major subject. In conjunction with your major subject, your relevant work experience (e.g. internships, part-time jobs, voluntary work) and your personal skills, it will enable you to refine your profile and carve out your own individual array of career options.

• Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Admission requirements

  Education certificate: 
  General higher education entrance qualification, subject-related higher education entrance qualification, technical college entrance qualification or master’s certificate and comparable certificates from advanced professional training or professional qualifications 
  
  Certifications of program-specific knowledge and skills to be submitted prior to admission:
  German skills: DSH 2
  
  Restricted admission: 
  For application or enrolment, it is necessary to select one major and depending on the combination one minor subjects in the online application
  
  Cannot be combined with:
  Geography (major subject in a combined bachelor's degree)

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  Technical questions about your application

  Uni-assist
  
  

  Content-related questions about the program

  Dr. Dietrich Göttlicher
  Department of Geography
  Deutschhausstraße 10
  Room: +1/0160
  35032 Marburg
  
  Tel.: +49 6421 28-24260
  E-Mail: dietrich.goettlicher@geo.uni-marburg.de
  Office hours

  Formal questions about your application

  Ellen Huth
  Tel.: +49 6421/28 22222
  Email: application@uni-marburg.de
  
  Office hours: Mondays - Fridays 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Central European Time)

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  Applying with foreign university entrance qualification

  Application deadlines

• More information about the major subject in a combined bachelor's degree program in Geographie / Geography