The research proposal must include a description of the dissertation as a research agenda and of the methodical approach. In the colloquium on the research proposal, doctoral students shall present their dissertation project and provide reasons for their chosen approach.

Details are listed in the Implementing Provisions concerning the Doctorate Regulations

The supervisor and the co-supervisor decide on the acceptance of the research proposal and recommend a grade.

In the defence the doctoral students prove whether they have fulfilled the requirements of the dissertation.

The defence can be held when the dissertation has been recommended for acceptance in the written appraisal of the supervisors and each supervisor has awarded a minimum grade of 4.0.

The Doctoral Examination Board holds the defence and determines which grade is awarded.

- Describing landscapes, places and objects
- Presenting sketches and plans
- Discussing topics within the field of architecture
- Reading texts dealing with concrete and abstract topics in architecture

Präsentationen mit Kritik (70%),
Peer Feedback und Mitarbeit im Unterricht (30%)

Präsentationen mit Kritik (70%),
Peer Feedback und Mitarbeit im Unterricht (30%)

This module serves manifold competences: As a doctoral consortium it aims at deepening both, methodological and professional research skills of the students. In addition, it is designed to foster the international profile of their work.

Students' participating in a doctoral consortium, therein share both the main contents of and progress in their own researches. Moreover, they benefit from listening to the other students' experiences and results and receive valuable feedback of the supervisors, consortium chairs and student participants.

The primary objective of the doctoral consortium is to present and defend the PhD students' research in a competitive and international scientific environment.

The students will be assessed in this module through:

• Competitive Selection Process of the doctoral consortium
• Research paper submitted to the doctoral consortium
• Assessment by the Professors discussing the proposal at the doctoral consortium

Module availability:
On application at an internationally renown doctoral consortium.

The doctoral consortium is an opportunity to sharpen and deepen both focus and methods of research, supervised by a group of external professors and/or advisors. It is designed to foster the presentational, critical and discursive skills in a group of international peers. By submitting their work-in-progress and interim results to an international doctoral consortium candidates also learn how to position their work in a competitive research environment.
Applications are refereed through an academic committee. Participants benefit from understanding others' experiences and results and receive valuable feedback from consortium chairs and other participants. A joint publication is to result from a consortium. A doctoral consortium will take the form of a multi-institution and often international seminar, workshop or summer school - an example can be found on www.dokonara.org, the consortium on sustainable spatial development our University participates in each year.

Students will be assisted by lecturers of the Institute of Architecture and Planning at the University of Liechtenstein in preparing their proposal and application for their doctoral consortium participation. Insights acquired will be discussed and reinforced by your doctoral supervisor and other advisors at the University of Liechtenstein.

The primary objective of the doctoral consortium is for the candidates' doctoral research to be presented, argued and advanced in an international and scientific setting.

Successful participation will strengthen research content, method and students' ability to engage in focused, critical discourse.

The students will be assessed in this module through:

• competitive selection process of the doctoral consortium
• research paper submitted to the doctoral consortium
• assessment by the Professors reviewing proposals at the doctoral consortium

Module availability:
In coordination with supervisor: upon application at an international doctoral consortium, e. g. international doctoral research workshops, seminars or symposia on architectural design theory; low-carbon building technology and building integrated sustainability systems; or sustainable spatial development, urban and regional planning and design, or an approved related field.

In the defence the doctoral students prove whether they have fulfilled the requirements of the dissertation.

The defence can be held when the dissertation has been recommended for acceptance in the written appraisal of the supervisors and each supervisor has awarded a minimum grade of 4.0.

The Doctoral Examination Board holds the defence and determines which grade is awarded.

Techniques of financial statements (with/without form sheet), elements of annual financial statements (balance sheet, earnings- & loss statement, notes, status report), balancing of accounts in general, standard of valuation (acquisition costs, cost of production, fair value), principles of balancing of accounts (prudence concept, realization principle, valuation at the lower of cost or market principle, maximum value principle), earnings- & loss statement income by nature format versus income by function format, profit distribution in corporations (with/without lock outs) and partnerships, options to capitalize, options to carry as a liability, fixed assets analysis, receivables analysis, foreign currencies receivables und foreign currencies liabilities, liability provisions analysis, liabilities analysis, special types of liability provisions, contingent liabilities, booking of various grants, income based taxes and adjustments of tax base rates, corporations in crisis (over-indebtedness), deferred taxes (deferred tax expenses and deferred tax revenues).

Theories of International Trade and International Finance aim at explaining underlying dynamics of economic and social developments in a global context. They also allow to investigate relations between market and industry structures and flows in goods, services and financial flows. Furthermore they serve in designing and evaluating the impact of macro-economic policies, currency fluctuations and trading regimes on economies, business strategy and operations.

The module aims at examining how national policies can, in theory, shape international trade and finance, and constrain the climate for international business. It extends this analysis to the international system discussing the role of international arrangements and institutions, e.g. the WTO, on international trade and investment.

Using a series of country-based case studies, students will have the opportunity to investigate how firms feel and master the impact of government policy and institutional set-ups in a specific nation state or economic region, for example China, India, the Arab World and South-America.

Contents of the module are:

• Sources of international comparative advantages (differences in natural resources, technology and factor endowment)
• Principles of strategic trade theory and geographic economic integration
• Goals, instruments and impact of modern international trade policy in industrial and emerging economies
• International trade agreements and organisations

Interactive lectures, exercises

The purpose of this module is to enable students to understand the challenges of international trade and investment and to analyse the opportunities they represent concerning a specific nation state or a wider economic region.

• Explain fundamentals of neo-classical and strategic trade theories
• Distinguish implications for national trade policies
• Illustrate main themes and debates in international economics
• Assess the impact of macroeconomics, political forces and international agreements on firm strategies and competition in a specific nation-state or economic region

Written term paper

Web-based online evaluation upon completion of module

This module consists of elective courses. Please register for one of the lectures offered.

Nach der Vermittlung von theoretischem Wissen (Landschaftskomponenten und landschaftsarchitektonische Praxisbeispiele) gilt
es, unterschiedliche Landschaften zu entdecken, zu interpretieren und zu analysieren:
-Wahrnehmung von Landschaft - Landschaft lesen – Ebenen (Lagen) und Schichten von Landschaften entblättern – (Exkursionen)
-Landschaft verstehen und interpretieren – Landschaftsverständnis.
-Einführung in Freiraum- und Landschaftstypologien.
-Nationale & internationale Beispiele zu Landschaftsarchitektur und Verknüpfungen zu verwandten Disziplinen (Städtebau,
Architektur etc.)
-Herstellen von Bezügen zu Planungs- und Praxisbeispielen und zu Theorien.
-Bedeutungen von Landschaft als Ressource: von Artenvielfalt, von (neuer und alter) Landwirtschaft, von Erholungs-, Produktionsund
Genusslandschaft, Bedeutungen von privaten, halbprivaten und öffentlichen Freiräumen.

Blockunterricht mit
Fachstudio (Vorlesung) und Übungen
Diskurs, Projektarbeit, Recherche, Reflexion, Übung, Foto, Impulsreferat, Lesen, Vortrag

Fachkompetenz

• Die Studierenden verfügen über Kenntnisse aus der Geschichte der Landschaftsarchitektur.
• Die Studierenden verfügen über Kenntnisse aktueller Tendenzen zeitgenössischer Landschaftsarchitektur.
• Die Studierenden verfügen über praktisches Wissen über Material- und Pflanzenverwendung, über Bodenbeläge und über sonstige Freiraumausstattung.

Methodenkompetenz

• Die Studierenden verstehen Landschaftsarchitektur als Teil eines kulturhistorischen Prozesses, der von jeder Epoche und Generation neu interpretiert und gestaltet wird.
• Die Studierenden können Typologien von Freiräumen erkennen und Raumanalysen mit der Methode des Freiraum-Checks durchführen.

Sozialkompetenz

• Die Studierenden können ein Thema aus der Lehrveranstaltung in der Gruppe bearbeiten, verbal vorstellen und einen strukturierten schriftlichen Text hierzu verfassen.

Selbstkompetenz

• Die Studierenden können ein Stück Landschaft oder Freiraum interpretieren.

Positiv bestandene Studieneingangsphase

Projektentwürfe; Mitarbeit im Unterricht

Einführung in die Grundlagen der Festigkeitslehre

• Arten von Beanspruchungen und die damit verknüpften Verformungen und Spannungen
• Zusammenhang zw. Spannungen und Dehnungen, Arbeitslinien div. Materialien
• Temperaturverformungen
• Einführung in die Balkentheorie
• Spannungsberechnung für einfache Beispiele mit doppelter Biegung + Normalkraft
• Schubspannungsberechnung zufolge Scher- und Querkraftsbeanspruchung
• Einführung in die Torsionsbeanspruchung
• Berechnung der Tragsicherheit einfacher Tragsysteme

Vorlesung

Fachkompetenz/Professional

• Die Studierenden erwerben Grundkenntnisse der Festigkeitslehre und können aufbauend auf

Tragwerkslehre I die Beanspruchungen einfacher Tragsysteme berechnen und die daraus resultierenden Spannungen ermitteln.

Methodenkompetenz

• Die Studierenden können die in der Vorlesung erlernten graphischen und rechnerischen Methoden auf die o.a. Aufgabenstellungen anwenden.

Sozialkompetenz

• Die Studierenden bewältigen in Gruppenarbeit gemeinsam Übungsaufgaben zum Vorlesungsstoff und wägen ggf. verschiedene Lösungsansätze gegeneinander ab.

Selbstkompetenz

• Die Studierenden entwickeln durch die Anwendung verschiedener Lösungsmethoden auf ein und dieselbe Aufgabe die Fähigkeit, die eigenen Lösungen zu hinterfragen und zu kontrollieren.

Schriftliche Prüfung