The Department teaches courses within many of the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology’s study programmes. Our focus is central to the following programmes:

Bachelor’s programmes

  • Arboriculture (in Czech)
  • Landscaping (in Czech)
  • Forestry (in Czech)
  • Forestry of Tropics and Subtropics (in Czech)
  • Game Management (in Czech)

Master’s programmes

  • European forestry (in English)
  • Forestry Engineering (in Czech)
  • Forestry Engineering of Tropics and Subtropics (in Czech)
  • Landscaping Enginnering (in Czech)
  • Nursery Management and Tree Breeding (in Czech)
  • Technical Biology of Woody Species (in Czech)

Doctoral programmes

Teaching is modern and underpinned by science, practice and current technology.

  • Classroom equipped with microscopes for teaching plant anatomy and morphology
  • Departmental corridor showing the collection of woods, cones, fruits, seeds and herbarium items from around the world, including interesting and useful plants from the tropics and subtropics
  • Laboratories equipped with instruments for plant ecophysiology and macro- and microscopic, genetic and macromolecular analyses
  • Dendrology classroom equipped with a comprehensive collection of herbarium items, cone specimens, seeds, fruits, annual plants and temperate, tropical and subtropical trees
  • Instruments for measuring ecophysiological processes of plants.
  • Field-Mapping instruments for collecting and mapping dendrometric data
  • Regular excursions to the MENDEL Botanical Garden and Arboretum and the Křtiny, Řícmanice and Habrůvka arboretums
  • Trips to interesting sites in the Czech Republic and neighbouring countries as part of the main course exercises

Students can collaborate on research, development and teaching projects within the Czech Republic and in various other parts of the world, such as Zambia, the Philippines, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and many others.