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INFORMATION FOR INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE GUEST STUDENTS
if you need information, signing of documents, help of any kind - feel free to contact the TUM Landscape Student Exchange Coordinator Andreas Printz: a.printz@tum.de
Some specific hints for your Landscape guest study are given here:
# The Lectures
You want to compile your study schedule and need to know, when and where are your lectures/projects? Go the lecture/studio of your choice in TUMOnline and click on “Scheduled Dates”.
It is recommended to show up at the very first lecture date. It is then, when an overview of content, methods, grade nature and expectations is given. Hint: visit more lectures than you booked. Include also possible alternatives. You can change your courses selection and drop later courses, you don't like/need, no problem (from our side). You can change your course selection from the original Learning Agreement according to the agreement of your home University. Talk to the Landscape Student Exchange Coordinator. Be sure to take a full module and not ‘only’ a lecture. Sometimes modules consist of different lectures, some of them even spread over two semesters. a single lecture of a combined module can not be represented in your Transcript of Records. Take care: sometimes “simple” lectures can also be full modules. If you are not sure about your choice, ask the lecturer or the Student Exchange Coordinator.
Electronic course application at our University is not a prerequisite or a key feature for the participation (except for some number limited courses, mostly for e.g. laboratory courses). In most courses, you can just walk into the lecture without any application or control and apply/register later. However, if you finally decide to take at the course, being listed guarantees the flux of side teaching information, introduction and special dates, etc. Once, you are registered, you don't necessarily have to finish the course/participate in the exam.
At the middle of the semester you will have to register for the exam (only for the ones you really want to have an exam).
Don't feel panic if you cannot apply/register for your (LA)-courses at TUMOnline months before lecture period. The registration for the courses will be opened exclusively by the lecturers according to their individual schedule. Some early birds might start opening one month before lecture time, but many will open registration only last minute before real start. Don't worry.
# The projects/studios
For most Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning students, the projects/studios are the core of their studies (that is also represented by a big proportion of credits).
Projects/studios are offered at different levels. Choose the one that is fitting to your education level. In case you want to up- or downgrade for any reason, talk to the staff. However, BSc-students are normally not admitted to the Master projects (this is different as for the lectures).
Make sure you applied/registered for projects/studios in time according to the information given! For almost all projects/studios this will be the first days of the lecture period. Registration is important to organize the travel logistic to the project/studio site at the very beginning!
Make sure to be at the very first presentation of the project to understand what is it about and what is required. Working teams are usually built instantly after the presentation. Be sure you have all relevant information to decide for one of the projects/studios quickly at the very beginning!
If you can not decide without getting full presentation information, tell the staff that you are interested and until you will have decided to participate or not. You will have to decide at least in the very first lecture week.
Projects/studios are issued by the different Landscape core chairs at the respective homepages. Find here a compilation of the relevant projects/studios of the winter semester. Sorry, for some exclusive German written presentations. If you still struggle after KI translation feel free to ask me
Landscape Architecture
LAT:
https://www.arc.ed.tum.de/en/lat/teaching/master-in-landscape-architecture/
https://www.arc.ed.tum.de/en/lat/teaching/bsc-in-landscape-architecture/advanced-bachelors-studio-project/
LAO:
https://www.arc.ed.tum.de/en/lao/lehre/lectures-and-projects/
LAREG:
www.arc.ed.tum.de/en/lareg/teaching/current-design-studio/
GTLA
https://www.arc.ed.tum.de/en/gtla/teaching/
Landscape Planning
SMLE:
https://www.lss.ls.tum.de/en/lapl/teaching/student-projects/
ROEK:
https://www.lss.ls.tum.de/en/roek/projects/
TOEK (allgemeines Lehrangebot ohne spezifischen Projekte):
https://www.lss.ls.tum.de/en/toek/teaching/our-course-offerings/
UPE:
https://www.lss.ls.tum.de/en/upe/teaching-bachelor-and-master-theses/
# Informal Landscape Welcome Meeting a week before lecture time
Master Landscape Architecture student are exclusively invited to an introduction talk for master freshmen with Professor Weilacher on Thu 9th of October 2-6 p.m. at our Landscape Building (Glasshouse).
Directly after this meeting we will have a meeting of all guest students and real TUM-Landscape students (some of your buddies). Starting at 6 p.m. in room U3 (basement of Landscape building). Shortly before seriously diving into your guest studies, let's meet and talk about the most important TUM Landscape survival hacks.
# Semester and project/studio kick offs
There will be a general summer semester kick off at 13th of October ~10:00 a.m. in room U3 Landscape Building. A very general and short overview is given on projects but also lectures. Mainly hold in German, but you can see the main actors of the core landscape professorships. Important Project/studio kick-offs will follow in the afternoon or the very next days (s. announcement)