Global Environment and Development — Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano

Il piano degli esami

1° anno

• Global challenges in environment and development — 8 CFU
• Quantitative and qualitative methods in environment and development — 7 CFU
• Practicing interdisciplinarity field research on the environment — 15 CFU
• - I year - elective teachings at the University of Copenaghen (UCPH) for the mobility track AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT- University of Milan (UMIL): choose 30 ECTS (scegli 30 CFU): Advanced crop production 8 CFU; Agroforestry 8 CFU; Applied insect ecology and biological control 7 CFU; Experimental soil analysis 7 CFU; Life cycle assessment within biological production systems 7 CFU; Tropical crop production 7 CFU; Tropical forest restoration 7 CFU; Agricultural value chains in developing countries 7 CFU; Applied statistics: from data to results 8 CFU; Entrepreneurship and innovation 7 CFU; Environmental impact assessment 8 CFU; Global environmental governance 7 CFU; Land use and environmental modelling 7 CFU; Plant ecophysiology in a changing climate 7 CFU; Project in practice 15 CFU; Project outside the course scope 8 CFU

2° anno

• Laboratory of sustainability of agricultural mechanization — 6 CFU
• Laboratory of sustainability of livestock systems — 7 CFU
• Laboratory of sustainability of water management — 6 CFU
• Experimental internship — 17 CFU
• Final exam — 7 CFU
• - II year - elective teachings at the University of Milan (UMIL) for the mobility track AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT: choose 6 ECTS (scegli 6 CFU): Agricultural systems and soil science 6 CFU; Bioeconomy: management, assessment and intellectual property 6 CFU; Natural resource economics 6 CFU; Environmental plant biotechnology 6 CFU; International cooperation and crop-livestock systems 6 CFU; Land planning and life cycle assessment 6 CFU; Plants as biofactories 6 CFU; Statistical methods for the environmental research 6 CFU
• - Students who do not hold an Italian high school diploma or degree can obtain an A2 or higher level proficiency certificate in Italian, worth 3 ECTS. Italian students must acquire an additional 3 credits in activities dedicated to thesis work. (scegli 3 CFU): Additional internship 3 CFU; Additional language skills: italian (3 ECTS) 3 CFU
• - STUDENTS HAVE TO CHOOSE FREE-CHOICE COURSES FOR 8 ECTS. A further 8 credits derive from free-choice courses, including 3 ECTS from the intra-semester workshop. The workshop is a strongly suggested, EU funded, interdisciplinary activity for all students, i.e. students from the university of Milano and from the university of Warsaw. The teaching tutors support students in selecting the elective courses. (scegli 8 CFU): Merged intra-semester workshop 3 CFU