MSc Geography and Geoinformatics - Field and Methods Courses

Academic year 2024-2025:

 

 

USA

Timing: Block 3-4, 2025
Destination: Pacific Northwest Coast
Themes: Physical Geography, Human Geography, Geoinformatics, Coastal Management
Responsible: Aart Kroon, Lasse Møller-Jensen
Course description: Field and Methods Course in Geography and Geoinformatics (ku.dk)
Further information about the course: Field and Method Course Pacific North-West: Geography – Geoinformatics – Københavns Universitet (ku.dk)

Slovenia

Timing: Block 3-4, 2025
Destination: Slovenia
Themes: Physical Geography, Human Geography, Geoinformatics, land system science, climate extremes, change, mitigation and adaptation
Responsible: Stéphanie Horion, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, Thomas Friborg
Course description: Field and Methods Course in Geography and Geoinformatics (ku.dk)
Further information about the course: Field and methods course Slovenia 2024/2025 – Københavns Universitet (ku.dk)

Tanzania

Timing: Block 3-4, 2025
Destination: Tanzania
Themes: Human Geography, urbanization, rural-urban transformations, migration and mobility, agro-industrial value chains, livelihoods
Responsible: Manja Hoppe Andreasen and Marianne Nylandsted Larsen
Course description: Field and Methods Course in Geography and Geoinformatics (ku.dk)
Further information about the course: Information meeting on Monday 21st October at 12:15 in classroom 12 (U12), Øster Voldgade 10

SLUSE

SLUSE - Practicing Interdisciplinary Field Research on the Environment. Separate course that runs every year in block 3 (15 ECTS, full block), jointly with other departments. Read more on www.sluse.dk or on the course description: Practicing Interdisciplinary Field Research on the Environment (ku.dk)
Responsible from Geography: Ole Mertz and Xiaoye Tong
Further information about the course: Contact Ole Mertz, om@ign.ku.dk. Information meeting for pre-enrolled students on Friday 29th November at 14:00 in Festauditoriet, Bülowsvej 17, Frederiksberg.
Pre-enrolment for SLUSE field course: Enrolment for Practising Interdisciplinary Field Research on the Environment – University of Copenhagen (sluse.dk)

 

Academic year 2025-2026:

Greenland

Timing: Block 4-5, 2026
Destination: Disko, Arctic Station
Themes: Physical Geography, Arctic hydrology and soil science
Responsible: Per Ambus, NN to be announced
Course description: To be announced
Information meeting: To be announced
Further information about the course: To be announced

Spain

Timing: Block 3-4, 2026
Destination: Barcelona
Themes: Human Geography
Responsible: Christine Benna Skytt-Larsen, Nikos Kapitsinis
Course description: To be announced
Information meeting: To be announced
Further information about the course: To be announced

SLUSE

SLUSE - Practicing Interdisciplinary Field Research on the Environment. Separate course that runs every year in block 3 (15 ECTS, full block), jointly with other departments. Read more on www.sluse.dk or on the course description: Practicing Interdisciplinary Field Research on the Environment - 2023/2024 (ku.dk)

About MSc Geography Field and Methods Course

The fundamental goal of the MSc Geography Field and Methods Course is to enable the student to independently organize and carry out larger-scale geographical fieldwork and to be able to analyze, evaluate, document and communicate the results of a scientific study.

The course is designed as preparation for a Master’s thesis and therefore ideally takes place prior to carrying out the Master’s thesis. In this course students will gain hands-on experience on a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods that are considered to have a broad application in both research- and industry-related fields.

The course comprises three parts:

• Block N: theoretical and methodological studies, classroom teaching and preparation for fieldwork
• Between block N and N+1: 10 days of fieldwork 
• Block N+1: processing of data, report writing, possibly additional classroom teaching and an exam.

The course is generic in the sense that the formal course description is taylored to a range of geographical destinations that change from one year to another. Various teachers participate and various geographical disciplines are in focus.

It is only possible to take part in one Field and Methods course pr. student during the MSc programme.

Please note that prior to the formal course registration via the Self-Service, the Department will arrange information meetings for students who are interested in this course.

Students shall pay for their own travel to and from the field-work area, as well as entry visa (if required), vaccinations (if required) and personal medicine (e.g. malaria medication) and a daily amount for food and lodging. For destinations outside DK, students are required to take out a private illness and repatriation insurance covering the field period.