Details of the programme
Content and Duration
The Master’s programme consists of 18 study modules taught over 2 academic years. During the REAP studies, students will obtain knowledge and skills within the following areas:
- Sustainability
- Water, Material and Energy Cycles in the city
- Urban Noise
- Resource efficient urban technologies and infrastructure
- Economics and administration of buildings and urban services
- Legal and policy instruments
- Urban Planning on different scales: building (1:10 - 1:100), neigbourhood (1:500- 1: 5000) and city (1:10000 - 1:100000) scale
- planning approaches within the specific geographical and cultural context
- Skills development: dimensioning, perception, assessment and decision making in the field of sustainable resource technologies
- Research methods and decision support techniques
Structure of the Programme
In each semester, students enrol for 30 credit points (CP). In Semester 3, students select two of the 5 CP modules from each of the two blocks (Block 1: Resources, Technologies and Environment; Block 2: Resources, Institutions and Instruments) for a total of 20 CP in addition to the 10 CP from Project 3.
In the first and fourth semester, REAP students are supposed to take a Studium Fundamentale course. The Studium Fundamentale consists of courses of more general interest which are not directly part of the disciplinary field for which the student is enrolled. These may include offerings in philosophy, ethics, languages, culture, etc. and are aimed at suggesting a different approach to thought processes and learning methods than normally found in the student’s discipline.
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Additonally, the REAP programme is composed by two The programme allows a certain amount of freedom to choose between courses, in the neighourhood of 2/3 of each topic offered being compulsory, 1/3 elective.
Study Methods
Lectures and seminars are grouped around the central project work, i.e. real-time, real-world case studies, in which students, with help and guidance from faculty, develop recommendations and solutions for applied tasks. These could be: Designing a building-based, integrated supply-treatment system for water and wastewater; working out a plan for the environmentally sound retrofit of a housing block; devising an incentive-based scheme for refuse management or recycling of building materials. Project work is inspired by the research activities taking place at the university and can in turn contribute to this research. Project-based work also allows student interests and experiences with practical applications and the completion of a specific concept for design, planning or use in the context of real or potentially real problems. For this reason, it is clearly an advantage when students have relevant work experience from which they can draw for their project work. Experience with scientific concepts and an interest in the physical world is also useful.
