The Bachelor course for Urban and Regional Planning teaches scientific and practical basic principles, methodology, technical know-how and abilities as well as other necessary key qualifications such as teamwork, presentation techniques and rhetoric. Prospective urban and regional planners will become accomplished at dealing, under supervision, with standard practical, administrative or research tasks.

The Bachelor course entails six terms that include both compulsory and optional modules. The multidisciplinary and integrative modules are divided into the following blocks:

1. History and theory teach the basics of scientific study, specialist knowledge and methods and theory of planning, urban and construction history, planning for historic structures (building in an urban context), preservation of historical monuments, building survey and measurements.
2. Arts, representation and composition teach expertise in visual representation, sculpturing and modelling, visualisation and CAD in urban planning.
3. Structural engineering teaches the fundamental principles of structural systems and design.
4. Urban 1 teaches specialised knowledge of urban planning (methods and processes), urban management, planning and building law, urban economy, environmental planning as well as GIS, KIS and map and aerial photo analysis.
5. Urban 2 teaches urban construction, landscape and environmental planning, municipal engineering, regional planning, urban sociology, housing construction and industry and urban morphology.
6. Projects encompass integrated teaching in the core areas of urban construction, urban planning, landscape planning, municipal engineering and regional planning.

Project work makes up the main basic structure of the Bachelor course. They are progressively structured so that criteria and complexity expand or increase throughout the course. The other term modules relate to the project module. This ensures that students, supervised by teaching staff, receive practice-oriented tasks and solve them target-oriented and step-by-step

The teaching concept of the Bachelor course in urban and regional planning in Cottbus differs considerably from other planning courses in Germany. It is based on a prevailing and very close cooperation with students of architecture and civil engineering.