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izr. prof. dr. Andrej Lisec
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Information about the study program

1st cycle professional study program
The duration of the study: 3 years, 180 credit points (ECTS)
The academic title: Graduate Engineer of Landscape Management
The College was founded to educate and train highly qualified employees in the following fields:
• life sciences,
• agriculture,
• forestry,
• fishery,
• environmental protection,
• business and administration.

The program is markedly interdisciplinary and cannot be defined and determined by one study field alone, as it consists of both social (business) sciences (organization, management, marketing, economics) and natural sciences (ecology, living environment), as well as environmental protection (management of agricultural and forest land, nature protection), scientific disciplines from the field of landscape and countryside management, regional development and agricultural management.

Course syllabus study program in Landscape Management

YEAR 1
Compulsory study units:
– Foundations of European law/Temelji evropskega prava
– Computing and informatics in agriculture/Računalništvo in informatika v kmetijstvu
– Professional terminology in a foreign language/Strokovna terminologija v tujem jeziku
– Business calculus and statistics/Poslovni račun in statistika
– Economics/Ekonomika
– Sustainable development with an emphasis on natural resources/Trajnostni razvoj s poudarkom na naravnih virih
– Entrepreneurship and marketing/Podjetništvo in trženje
– Organization and business/Organizacija in poslovanje
– Basics of plant production/Osnove rastlinske pridelave
– Basics of livestock husbandry/Osnove živinoreje
– Integrated development of the countryside/Celostni razvoj podeželja
– Logistics in agriculture/Logistika v kmetijstvu

Conditions for Promotion to Year 2
To advance from the first to the second year, students must achieve at least 45 ECTS credits from the first year.

YEAR 2
Compulsory study units:
– Plant physiology and plant nutrition/Fiziologija in prehrana rastlin
– Wildlife and forest management/Upravljanje z divjadjo in gozdom
– Professional Practice 1/Strokovna praksa 1
– Agri-food chemistry/Agroživilska kemija
– Spatial and urbanistic planing of the countryside/Prostorsko in urbanistično načrtovanje podeželja
– Regulation of agricultural lands/Urejanje kmetijskih zemljišč
– Professional Practice 2/Strokovna praksa 2

Elective study units 1:
Students select an elective study unit from the list:
– Field crops and vegetables production/Pridelovanje poljščin in vrtnin
– Fruit growing and viticulture/Sadjarstvo in vinogradništvo

Elective study units 2:
Students select an elective study unit from the list:
– Countryside tourism/Turizem na podeželju
– Additional and supplementary activities in rural areas/Dodatne in dopolnilne dejavnosti na podeželju

Elective study units 3:
Students select an elective study unit from the list:
– Winemaking/Vinarstvo
– Culture and ways of nutrition/Kultura in način prehranjevanja

Conditions for Promotion to Year 3
To advance from the second to the third year, students must complete all obligations from the first year (including possible differential exams) and collect at least 45 ECTS credits from the second year and complete all obligations associated with Professional practice.

YEAR 3
Compulsory study units:
– Agricultural policy/Kmetijska politika
– Biotechnology and genetics/Biotehnologija in genetika
– Total quality and business excellence/Celovita kakovost in poslovna odličnost
– Diploma (Graduate) thesis/Diplomsko delo

Elective study units
Students select 7 (seven) elective study units from the list:
– Management and planning of logistics processes/Upravljanje in načrtovanje logističnih procesov
– Quantitative methods/Kvantitativne metode
– Medicinal and aromatic plants/Zdravilne in aromatične rastline
– Organic farming/Ekološko kmetijstvo
– Management of agricultural areas/Gospodarjenje s kmetijskim prostorom
– (Sustainable) management of forests and ecosystems /Gospodarjenje z gozdom in ekosistemi
– Renewable sources of energy/Obnovljivi viri energije
– Efficient use of energy/Učinkovita raba energije
– Apiculture/Čebelarstvo
– Management (breeding) of sport horses/Športna konjereja
– Eco-remediations/Ekoremediacije
– Breeding and use of beneficial organisms/Gojenje in uporaba koristnih organizmov
– Experience tourism/Doživetja v turizmu
– Tourist offer planning/Načrtovanje turistične ponudbe