Default track

English
VUB Main Campus Etterbeek
120
 ECTS
2 years

The default track of this programme consists of:
1. Core courses (45 ECTS)
2. Broadening courses (12 ECTS)
3. Supporting courses (9 ECTS)
4. One major (24 ECTS) to choose out of 4 specialisations:
Major 1: Global Change Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity
Major 2: Conservation Biology and Ecosystem Management
Major 3: Environmental Impact and Remediation
Major 4: Marine and Lacustrine Geosciences
5. The master's thesis (30 ECTS)

Master of Science in Marine and Lacustrine Science and Management

Core Courses

Compulsory Courses

Oceanography
4
Estuarine and Coastal Systems
5
Law and Ethics on Conservation of Aquatic Systems
3
In-situ and Remote Sensing Tools in Aquatic Sciences
5
Environmental Modelling
3
Integrated Marine Coastal Ecology Field Course
3
Freshwater Ecology
5
Limnology
5
Seminars: Case Studies on Biodiversity Management
3

Choice 1: you choose one of the following field courses

Integrated Field Course at Sea
3
Integrated Limnological Field Course
3
Integrated Estuarine field Course
3

Choice 2: you choose one of the two following options

Monsoon School
6
Summer School
6

Broadening Courses

Governance and Policy in Development and Cooperation - Part I
3
Governance and Policy in Development and Cooperation - Part II
3
Internship
6

Supporting Courses

You choose a total of 9 credits of courses from the following options

Introduction to GIS
3
Water Quality
3
Applied Geomorphology
6
Natural Risk Management
3
Methods of Scientific Diving
3
Data and Information Management
3
Introduction to Marine and Lacustrine Biology
3
Introduction to Data Mining
3
Advanced Applied Statistics
3
Biogeochemistry
3
Analysis of Biological Data
6
Conservation Genetics
3
Stable Isotope Geochemistry
3

Majors

Major Global Change Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity

Marine Genomics
3
Marine Food Web Ecology
3
Ecology of Coastal Seas
3
Marine Extreme Systems
6
Lacustrine Systems
3
Aquatic Microbial Ecology
6

Major Conservation Biology and Ecosystem Management

Marine Fisheries Ecology and Management
6
Integrated Coastal Zone Management
3
Conservation Genetics
3
Environmental Impact Assessment
3
Law of the Sea and Protection of Oceans
3
Marine Biodiversity
3

Major Environmental Impact and Remediation

Environmental Impact Assessment
3
Integrated Practicals
3
Aquatic Ecotoxicology and Environmental Monitoring
6
Ecosystem Based Adaptation to Global Change
6
Physiology of Aquatic Organisms
6

Major Marine and Lacustrine Geosciences

Advanced Sedimentology
6
Paleobiology of Micro-Organisms
6
Integrated Offshore Exploration
6
Paleoclimatology and Climate Change
6

Master's thesis

Master's Thesis: Marine and Lacustrine Science and Management
30
Total number of ECTS
120