INFORMATION FOR INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE STUDENTS SPATIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING UNIVERSITY OF KAISERSLAUTERN

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1 INFORMATION FOR INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE STUDENTS SPATIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING UNIVERSITY OF KAISERSLAUTERN

2 Content Welcome and Contact Information... 3 University of Kaiserslautern Technische Universität Kaiserslautern... 4 General Information... 6 Map of Building 1 A/RU... 7 Organization of the Exchange Programme... 8 Faculty of Spatial and Environmental Planning... 9 Study Programmes at the Faculty of Spatial and Environmental Planning Course Selection and Learning Agreement Impressum International Coordinator Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Karina M. Pallagst Dipl.-Ing. M.Sc. Beate Caesar Faculty of Spatial and Environmental Planning University of Kaiserslautern February

3 Welcome and Contact Information Dear ERASMUS student, Dear international exchange student, Welcome to the Faculty of Spatial and Environmental Planning in Kaiserslautern. We are happy you chose to come to Kaiserslautern and study with us. Hopefully you will have a pleasant and academically enriching time. This guide provides practical information, like maps of the campus and public transport as well as detailed instructions concerning the offered courses and lectures. For more general information concerning your stay in Kaiserslautern please refer to our web page or contact one of the following persons: Erasmus and International Coordinator for Spatial and Environmental Planning (RU) Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Karina Pallagst room: phone: +49 (0) karina.pallagst@ru.uni-kl.de consultation hours: Tuesday 11:00 12:00 (during the semester holidays every 1 st and 3 rd Tuesday of the month only) Dipl.-Ing. M.Sc. Beate Caesar room: phone: +49 (0) beate.caesar@ru.uni-kl.de consultation hours: Tuesday 11:00 12:00 (during the semester holidays every 1 st and 3 rd Tuesday of the month only) International Office of the University of Kaiserslautern Irina Prizigoda phone: +49 (0) room: prizigoda@verw.uni-kl.de consultation hours: Monday Friday 10:00 12:00 and Wednesday 14:00 16:00 AG Auslandskontakte phone: +49 (0) room: ag-aus@rhrk.uni-kl.de homepage: opening hours: Thursday 18:30-19:30 3

4 University of Kaiserslautern Technische Universität Kaiserslautern The University of Kaiserslautern, founded in 1970, is a relatively new research-oriented German university with a scientific-technological profile. It has a beautiful mid-size campus located on the edge of the world-famous UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Palatinate Forest ( Pfälzer Wald ). Currently there are employees, 167 professors and 600 academic staff working at the university. The university consists of 12 faculties offering 85 study programmes to students. The faculties are: Architecture Civil Engineering Biology Chemistry Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Computer Science Mechanical and Process Engineering Mathematics Physics Spatial and Environmental Planning Social Sciences Economics Besides the different faculty buildings and the research institutes you will find the main library, the computer centre, the Mensa, university sports and other services on the campus. Please use the campus map for basic orientation: Building 1 A/RU: The faculty building for all Architecture and Spatial & Environmental Planning students, including all lecture rooms, offices and workplaces. Building 2 The faculty library for all Architecture, RU and Civil Engineering students: You can find books, magazines and reference shelves, which hold ring binders of the seminars and lectures taught in the current semester. Building 3: Erasmus office of the faculty in room 3/124, offices of RU staff. Building 12 IntClub: The Club for international (and German students) organizes various events during the year. You can find it in the basement in room 168. Building 27 and 28 University Sports: You will find various kinds of sports facilities here. Building 32 Central Library: All the basic literature for your studies is located here. In addition to this, you can get further literature in the various faculty libraries. Building 34 RHRK: The RHRK is the University Computer Centre. You can get your internet account and access to the main computer pool there. 4

5 Building 46 ASTA: ASTA, the student council, is located near the upper entrance of the building. This institution organizes a lot of events for students and can often help with problems. Building 47 Main Office: This building contains the main administration offices of the University of Kaiserslautern the president of the university, the central administration, the international office and various operational facilities. Campus map 5

6 General Information Library The library for Spatial and Environmental Planning is located in building 2 (next to building 1). Opening hours: Mo.-Fri. 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. You can make use of it with your student card free of charge. Only in case of delay in returning books, you have to pay a fee. For further information: You may also use the central library (building 32) or the other faculty libraries. Workplaces for Students Workplaces for students can be found in the libraries all over the Campus. WLan-Access/Print/Plot/Copy You should bring your own computer/notebook with you to use at home as well as at university. To get access to the internet by w-lan, the copy machines, the printers and to some computer programmes you need an RHRK ( Regionales Hochschulrechenzentrum ) account which you get at the RHRK office (Service point, building 34, room 209) Monday to Friday 1-3 p.m. A special printing centre can be found in building 1, room 115. With your account and your student card you are able to print and copy in color DIN A4 and A3 in building as well as up to DIN A0 in the computer center with online access. If you want more detailed information: Public Transport The fastest way to reach building 1 from the city centre is taking the bus line 105 or 107. If you want to go to the main campus the bus line 115 is the one to choose. Bus stops can be found at various points on the campus. The bus stops nearest to our building are called: Im Kuckucksschlag, Hermann-Löns-Strasse or Pestalozzischule. Link to bus schedules: 6

7 Map of Building 1 A/RU Building 1 (Pfaffenbergstraße 95) contains the Faculty of Architecture (A) and Urban and Environmental Planning (RU). Building 1 is located to the north-east of the main campus and can be reached by a short-cut (footpath) from the main campus. 7

8 Organization of the Exchange Programme All exchange programmes are coordinated by the international office of our university, located in building 47, room 626. They also organize German language courses. There will be an intensive German language course before the beginning of each semester. Please use this opportunity to improve your German to be prepared for the semester. (Link to the German language courses: Most courses at the Faculty of Spatial and Environmental Planning are held in German. In some of the classes however, you can get an supervision. (Link to the Courses/ Courses with in language: ) The International Coordinators in Spatial and Environmental Planning are Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Karina M. Pallagst, room and Dipl.-Ing. M.Sc. Beate Caesar, room Please contact them when you have questions concerning your studies, learning agreement, credit points, transcript of records etc. They will also assist you in the contact and communication with the University of Kaiserslautern and your home university. The AG Auslandskontakte (see contact information) is a group of students that helps international students with the enrolment at our university, residential arrangements and all other organizational problems. They will contact you when you are accepted as an exchange student in Spatial and Environmental Planning at the University of Kaiserslautern and will help you with all organizational questions. The Fachschaft RU - the student council of the faculty - an elected group of students, who look after the interests of all students in our faculty, is located in room 1-U063 in the Foyer. They can also help you in case of questions about studying here. fachschaft@ru.uni-kl.de 8

9 Faculty of Spatial and Environmental Planning Departments Fachgebiete Abbrev. Room Head Computer Aided Design and Planning Methods in Urban Planning and Architecture International Planning Systems Landscape & open space development Faculty Spatial and Environmental Planning Computergestützte Planungs- & Entwurfsmethoden Internationale Plannungssysteme Landschafts- & Freiraumentwicklung CPE 1-U33/U34 IPS LFE Public Law Öffentliches Recht OERECHT Applied Physical Geography Regional development & Spatial Planning Physische Geographie PHGEO Regionalentwicklung & Raumordnung RUR Urban Planning Stadtplanung STPL Local, Regional & Environmental Economics Stadt-, Regional- & Umweltökonomie SRU Urban Sociology Stadtsoziologie STSOZ Urban restructuring & renewal Stadtumbau & Ortserneuerung S+O Faculty Civil Engineering 1-U24.3 Mobility & Transport Mobilität & Verkehr IMOVE Urban Water Management & Solid Waste Management Siedlungswasserwirtschaft & Abfallwirtschaft SIWAWI Real Estate Studies Immobilienökonomie IOE Water Management and Hydraulic Engineering Wasserbau und Wasserwirtschaft FWW Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Streich Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Karina Pallagst Prof. Dr. agr. Kai Tobias Prof. Dr. jur. Willy Spannowsky Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Sascha Henninger Univ.-Prof. Dr. habil. Gabi Troeger-Weiß Prof.Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Steinebach Prof. Dr. Martin Junkernheinrich Prof. Dr. Annette Spellerberg Prof. Dr. Holger Schmidt Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrike Reutter Prof.Dr.-Ing. Theo G. Schmitt Jun.-Prof. Dr. Björn- Martin Kurzrock Prof. Dr. Robert Jüpner 9

10 Study Programmes at the Faculty of Spatial and Environmental Planning The Faculty of Spatial and Environmental Planning offers two Bachelor programmes and three Master programmes: Bachelor in Spatial Planning Bachelor in Geography (teaching post) Master in Urban and Regional Development Master in Environmental Planning and Law Master in Geography (teaching post) You are free to choose from all courses offered by the faculty of Spatial and Environmental Planning as well as the other faculties according to your needs and interests. Please note that not every course will be offered in every semester. There are different kinds of courses offered at the faculty. The most important ones are lectures (V), exercises (Ü) and integrated courses that contain both, lectures and exercises (V+Ü). Additionally there are seminars. Feel free to choose lectures held in German if your German and respective background knowledge is good enough and if you think you can follow the lectures without problems. There are also lectures held or supervised in. You need to take into account that the courses with supervision contain inputs and lectures in German language that you need to understand. Before being enrolled in the courses you need the agreement of the lecturer to supervise you in. The following schedule will give you an overview about the offered courses. (supervised) courses in the winter semester (WS) Bachelor-level Course type V Subject Fach ECTS Basics in CAD in Urban and Regional planning Planning and Design Methods/ Part 1: Urban Analysis +Planning and Design Methods/ Part 2: Urban Design and Planning Design: Urban and Rural Planning Open Space Concepts and Open Space Management CAD-Grundlagen in der Stadt- und Raumplanung Planungs- und Entwurfsmethoden / Teil 1: Stadtanalyse + Planungs- und Entwurfsmethoden / Teil 2: Stadtplanerisches Entwerfen Entwerfen Stadt- und Ortsplanung Freiraumkonzepte und Freiraumsicherung U Climate Modelling Klimamodelle 2 Thesis Basics in Landscape Planning Socio-economic structural and demographic change Bachelor Thesis with Colloquium Grundlagen der Freiraumplanung Sozio-ökonomischer Strukturwandel und demographischer Wandel Bachelorarbeit mit Kolloquium

11 Master-level Lecture held in Course type U Subject Fach ECTS International urban and regional development lab V Open Space Development Freiraumentwicklung Field trip Field trip Exkursion V Urban Development Stadtentwicklungsplanung Seminar Project Regional development strategies Urban Redevelopment and Renewal Thesis Master Thesis Masterarbeit Strategien der Regionalentwicklung Stadtumbau und Stadterneuerung (supervised) lectures in the summer semester Bachelor-level Course type Subject Fach ECTS Basics in GIS in Urban and Regional Planning GIS-Grundlagen in der Stadt- und Raumplanung Project Study Project Studienprojekt Thesis Bachelor Thesis with Colloquium Bachelorarbeit mit Kolloquium Master-level Lecture held in Course type Block seminar Seminar Thesis Subject Fach ECTS European Spatial Development: Policies, Concepts and Strategies Urban sociology Study Project Master Thesis Stadtsoziologie Studienprojekt Masterarbeit

12 Course Selection and Learning Agreement You ll find information concerning the courses and the professors on our website. The university s information system KIS contains all information about current courses of the semester. Please, inform yourself here in advance. The information system KIS and the register of courses offered at the University of Kaiserslautern can be found at: Course of action First of all the respective semester needs to be chosen (on the left side). WS stands for winter semester; SS for summer semester. (Example: "WS 2014/2015"). To find the courses of the faculty you need to choose the faculty "Raum- und Umweltplanung". Now you can find all available courses sorted by the different level (Bachelor/Master/Diplom), the respective programmes and the respective year or semester of studies. When you choose a course you can access more information concerning dates, place, ECTS points, responsible lecturers etc. If the register of courses is not yet available for the coming semester you can orientate yourself on the previous winter respectively summer semester. Normally there are only small differences between the previous and the coming winter term respectively the previous and coming summer term. ERASMUS-Welcome-Meeting One week before the lectures start an ERASMUS-Welcome-Meeting will be held at the faculty. You will be provided with more information about studying at the faculty and your Learning Agreement will be discussed and can be adjusted. It is very important that you participate in this meeting. The next ERASMUS-Welcome-Meeting for the winter semester will take place on Thursday, 23th October, 2014 at 10 am in building 3, room 122. Please feel free to contact local students, who should be helpful in sharing information concerning quality, amount of input and grading of various fields of study. At the beginning of a course you usually get an overview of what is going to happen during the course as well as what you need to do in order to receive the performance record. It is your own responsibility to coordinate various fields of study and lectures. Immediately after your study plan is fixed, the learning agreement should be sent to your home university, to make sure that the chosen courses are accepted. 12

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