Environmental Ethics (M.A.)
Study content:
The Master's programme in Environmental Ethics combines perspectives from the natural sciences and the humanities and aims to assess ecological problems from a normative perspective. Since environmental ethics can only become concrete when it also becomes knowledgeable about the factual issues, the Master's programme is interdisciplinary. Students are familiarised with the dimensions of ecological action and ecological problem areas in a multidisciplinary way and are enabled to integrate subject-specific approaches ethically. This profile makes the programme unique in this form in the German study landscape.
Career prospects:
- advisory and media activities in environmental associations as well as in companies and in publishing
- environmental education and education for sustainable development (ESD)
- environmental administration
- public relations
- research and academia
- sustainability consulting and management
- political work / political consulting
Special features
interdisciplinarity, unique in Germany
Application Documents
The following documents are necessary for the application:
- Application for admission to the Master's programme (you will receive a PDF file after completing the online application).
- Letter of motivation
- Confirmation ( Form ) of examination results (in German)
- Curriculum vitae
- Copy of your degree certificate and your examination certificate or your foreign degree certificate - in English or German translation
- German or foreign university degree with an overall grade of at least 2.5
- An improvement of the grade point average by 0.2 in each case through relevant internships, lectures and other commitment is possible twice - Transcript of Records
A Transcript of Records must be submitted alongside your application documents. If your degree certificate can not yet be presented as described in point 5, a certificate of your preliminary average grade must be submitted with your Transcript of records.
Students of the University of Augsburg are asked to request this certificate via email from the Studierendeninformationsbüro ( ssc@zv.uni-augsburg.de). The processing time is around 4 work days. Due to the current situation the certificates of your average grade are only sent by mail to the address saved in the VIBS portal. Please account for this time when you plan your application.
The following documents are necessary for the application:
- Application for admission to the Master's programme (you will receive a PDF file after completing the online application).
- Letter of motivation
- Confirmation ( Form ) of examination results (in German)
- Curriculum vitae
- for foreign graduates: proof of a successful language test for German (level C1)
- Copy of your degree certificate and your examination certificate or your foreign degree certificate - in English or German translation
- German or foreign university degree with an overall grade of at least 2.5
- An improvement of the grade point average by 0.2 in each case through relevant internships, lectures and other commitment is possible twice - Transcript of Records
A Transcript of Records must be submitted alongside your application documents. If your degree certificate can not yet be presented as described in point 5, a certificate of your preliminary average grade must be submitted with your Transcript of records.
More information on application with international bachelor's degree certificates.
Application address
The application for the Master's programme "Umweltethik" is exclusively digital. Please send your application summarised in one PDF file to laura.bondl@uni-a.de.
Contact the examinations office
- Phone: +49 821 598-1111