Mestrado em Ciências Ambientais e Florestais

The 2nd Cycle Degree Course (Master Degree) in Environmental and Forest Sciences represents the logical extension of the homonymous 1st Cycle Course (Bachelor Course), Class L25. The main goal of the Course is to provide professional forest graduates with enhanced skills in strategic planning and management and with the technical, cultural, and management instruments necessary to operate in the fields of protection, conservation and monitoring of forest, pastoral and faunal resources, woodland protection from wildfires, soil protection and conservation, territory ecological planning and the establishment of low environmental impact operations aimed at protecting and enhancing mountain and hillslope areas.

First year

• Forest Geobotany
• Management of Forest Systems and Safety in Forestry Operations
  • Silviculture and arboriculture for timber production
  • Wood Harvesting and Safety in Forestry Operations
• Soil Ecology
• Environmental Chemistry of Urban and Forest Ecosystems
• Soil Protection and Conservation and Watersheds Planning
  • Soil Protection and Conservation and Hydraulic Rehabilitation
  • Watersheds Planning and Management
• Plant diseases and phytosanitary protection
  • Diseases of green areas and of ornamental plants
  • Integrate Protection of the Forest Systems
• Natural and Cultivated Mountain Systems

Second year

• Forest Fire Protection
• Economics and Environment Appraisal
• Ethology and wildlife management
• Landscape planning and infrastructures in agro-forestry areas
• Electives
• Final project
• Laboratory of GIS
• Apprenticeship Training and Guidance
• Internship

Located in the center of the Mediterranean, the University provides a wealth of knowledge built on every aspect of this area: the ideal springboard for those who want to study in Reggio and build their own future in a city with a metropolitan breath, engaging for its beauty. Founded in 1982, the Università Mediterranea has completed the reorganization envisaged by the reform and is now presented with six departments in the areas of agriculture, architecture and engineering law, sixty laboratories, and a renewed educational offer. It is available to students the new area dedicated to administrative services, free wireless, scholarships, the new Residence to increase the carrying capacity of offsite and foreign students, theater workshops and 200 Erasmus scholarships to study abroad. With a full calendar of cultural events throughout the year, the Università Mediterranea combines its commitment to research and teaching. Concerts, workshops, and activities in collaboration with student associations are placed in the sections devoted to informing the University website. From the Web also passes the main offer of services for the student: registration, taxes and college career are on your PC. And to keep yourself informed by the Università Mediterranea regular newsletters, personalized emails and pages on Facebook and Twitter. Great attention to the orientation pre and postgraduate curated by UniOrienta with the services of counseling, internships, and meetings with schools.