Free Elective courses

See current semester listings for current electives offerings!

A first choice for electives will be courses you are interested in, but do not need to fulfill requirements from obligatory modules. In particular courses offered in module > 856M28 – Methods in Geoinformatics are very well suited to develop additional competences adding to your profile.

Summer Schools & BIPs

You find an up-to-date list of suitable summerschools @our  CDE Masters’ Summerschools & Conferences webpage

A list of CIVIS BIPs is avaialble @  CIVIS BIPs course list.

To get information on Erasmus+ please check the PLUS Erasmus+ students information.

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)

Several of these increasingly popular online courses now can be taken for electives credit as well. They can be found in the PLUSonline course catalog when searching for ‘MOOC’. These courses are run on a fixed schedule, and do not always align well with semester periods.

Hint: do not select courses identified with a leading ‘U’, like U89.870, but rather register for 655.508 pointing to the ‘Earth Imagery’ MOOC.

Esri Academy

This is  online software training, for credit you can choose from courses listed in PLUSonline. Search in  Course List Plusonline for courses containing ‘EsriAcad’ in the current semester, like:

mooc_esriacad

In each course, one or several Esri Academy courses are listed, which you need to complete in order to receive the 1 ECTS credit offered for all online courses based on the Esri Academy > Example (be aware that course numbers with a leading ‘U’ cannot be selected!)
The online course units required for electives credit can be done at any time, there are no deadlines or specific requirements.
When you have completed all units required for course credit, save the Esri Academy course certificates issued upon completing tests / exams as pdf files, register for the course in PLUSonline and perfomr following main steps – more detailed information is available for the courses in Plusonline:

  1. send pdf certificates to  . – course credits will then be entered to show up on your transcript.
  2. additionally the documentation of your coursework as outlined in Plusonline has to be submitted before the end of of each semester (please also check Plusonline for details).
  3. credits will be entered shortly after evaluation of your documentation – requests for special arrangements / other dates cannot be accommodated.

New to Esri Academy?? Go to  https://www.esri.com/training/

Of course software skills other than ESRI are highly recommended, to be acquired either through informal means or other online options!

For everybody not having completed their bachelor’s degree in Geography at Salzburg, in particular when there was no opportunity to take equivalent undergraduate courses, the following classes are recommended and can be accepted for electives credit within the AGI MSc:

  • Topographische Kartographie und Luftbild (VO+UE)
  • Thematische Kartographie (VO+UE)
  • Grundlagen der Geoinformatik (VO+UE) (English language)
  • Remote Sensing and Image Processing (VO+UE) (English language!)

Elective course recognition guideline

Please check the step-by-step guideline for elective course recognition from partner universities: General Recognition process for CIVIS BIPs.