From Wintersemester 2009/10 the English-spoken M.Sc. Programme
International Organic Agriculture in Witzenhausen will be extended as a specialization in the
new Master Programme Sustainable
International Agriculture as a joint study programme of the agricultural faculties of University of Kassel-Witzenhausen and the University of Goettingen.
The MSc Programme International Organic Agriculture intends to enable German and
non-German-speaking students to achieve an internationally
acknowledged university degree after a study period of four
semesters. Part of it will be a short stay at a foreign university
and intensive language training.
Potential fields of profession include not only agricultural
administration, business areas of agriculture and related fields,
but also science and research. In order to achieve this there will
be a broad and sound spectrum of education based on thoroughly
linked teaching contents. Unique features of education in
Witzenhausen - short paths, tradition in project-oriented teaching
and working and individual contacts between teachers and students -
create the best conditions for the new teaching and didactic
approach of the MSc. Programme.
National and international Cooperation
Intensive contacts exist to partner
universities from overseas (Bogor, Indonesia and Merida, Mexico)
and the EU (partners of the Socrates programme: Aberystwyth,
Copenhagen, Wageningen, Viterbo, Lyon, As, Uppsala). These contacts
can be used for student mobility activities to enrich the lecturing
programme and focus.
