Master Cognition, Behavior and Neurobiology (878 [2] - Version 2023)

Group of Compulsory Modules (60 ECTS)

CoBeNe 1 Concepts in Cognitive Biology, Behavioral Biology and Neurobiology (15 ECTS)

• 300147 VO [ en ] ( MIXED ) Comparative Behavioral Research
• 300190 VO [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Concepts of Neurobiology

CoBeNe 2 Core Methods in Cognition, Behavior and Neurobiology (15 ECTS)

• 300131 VU [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Statistics course based on R
• 300146 VU [ en ] Methods in Behavioral and Cognitive Biology

CoBeNe 3 Advanced Methods (15 ECTS)

• 300101 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Scientific Writing Workshop
• 300135 UE [ en ] Advanced methods in behavioral physiology
• 300155 UE [ en ] Introduction to Biological Data Science - (Python and R)
• 300171 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Science Writing & Communication
• 300306 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Hands-on Immunolabelling for Light and Electron Microscopy - Ultrastructure preservation for biologists
• 300531 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Writing Theses and Articles in English - Effective communication and presentation of scientific research

CoBeNe 4 Individual Specialization (15 ECTS)

• 180150 VO [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) MEi:CogSci Cognitive Science Lecture Series
• 290209 VO [ en ] Climate Change and Climate Crisis: Science, Activism and Policy in the Climate Emergency
• 300042 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Seminar for Master’s Students in Biology of Cognition
• 300112 VO [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Current topics in human-animal relationships - Lecture to Seminar: 300053 SE Current topics in human-animal relationships (Summerterm)
• 300117 VO [ de en ] ( ON-SITE ) Mammalogy
• 300300 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Seminar for Masters Students in Animal Behaviour
• 300342 VO ( ON-SITE ) Nature Conservation - Strategies, Programmes, and Demonstration-cases
• 300397 SE [ en ] ( REMOTE ) Comparative Anthropology: Physiological and Behavioral Constraints in Humans and Non-Human Primates

Group of Elective Modules CoBeNe (30 ECTS from 2 different Elective Modules)

CoBeNe W1 Behavioral Physiology and Ecology (15 ECTS)

• 300074 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Advanced topics in courtship behaviour and sexual selection
• 300081 VO [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Behavioural Endocrinology
• 300134 SE ( ON-SITE ) Ethological and ecoethological Seminar (Grünau)
• 300140 VO [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Scientific contributions to behavioural endocrinology
• 300188 UE ( ON-SITE ) Behavioral Ecology - at the Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle in Gruenau
• 300199 UE [ de en ] ( ON-SITE ) Exercise on behaviour observation and behavioural genetics using the example of Japanese macaques

CoBeNe W2 Cognition and Communication (15 ECTS)

• 300103 SE [ en ] Current topics in cognitive biology 1
• 300154 UE [ en ] Bioacoustics I - Introduction to vertebrate Bioacoustics
• 300352 VO [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Animal Social Cognition

CoBeNe W3 Social Behavior, Innovation and Culture (15 ECTS)

• 300010 VO ( ON-SITE ) Vertebrate social systems: mechanisms
• 300020 SE ( ON-SITE ) Seminar on current topics in behavioural biology
• 300600 VO [ de en ] ( ON-SITE ) Vertebrate Social Systems II

CoBeNe W4 Neurobiology (15 ECTS)

• 300005 VO [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Breaking Symmetry: Organization, Development and Evolution of Brain Lateralization
• 300234 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Neural Circuit Analyses in the Drosophila Brain
• 300278 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Current topics in Neurobiology