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 ] Concepts of Neurobiology

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

• 300131 VU [ en ] Statistics course based on R
• 300146 VU [ en ] Methods in Behavioral and Cognitive Biology

CoBeNe 3 Advanced Methods (15 ECTS)

• 300101 SE [ en ] 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 ] Science Writing
• 300306 UE [ en ] Transmission Electron Microscopy: A hands-on course including immunolabelling of cells and tissues - Hands-on Immunolabelling for Light and Electron Microscopy
• 300531 UE [ en ] Writing Theses and Articles in English - Effective communication and presentation of scientific research

CoBeNe 4 Individual Specialization (15 ECTS)

• 180150 VO [ en ] MEi:CogSci Cognitive Science Lecture Series
• 300042 SE [ en ] Seminar for Master’s Students in Biology of Cognition
• 300050 UE Direct behavior observation, digitization and analysis
• 300093 SE [ en ] Seminar for Master-students in Neurobiology
• 300112 VO [ en ] Current topics in human-animal relationships - Lecture to Seminar: 300053 SE Current topics in human-animal relationships (Summerterm)
• 300117 VO [ de en ] Mammalogy
• 300152 SE [ en ] Seminar for Masters in Behavioural Ecology
• 300300 SE [ en ] Seminar for Masters Students in Animal Behaviour
• 300397 SE [ en ] Comparative Anthropology: Physiological and Behavioral Constraints in Humans and Non-Human Primates
• 300462 SE Phylogenetics actually - Actual problems and results in Phylogeny
• 540002 SE [ en ] Advanced Topics in Cognition of Communication

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

CoBeNe W1 Behavioral Physiology and Ecology (15 ECTS)

• 300074 SE [ en ] Advanced topics in courtship behaviour and sexual selection
• 300081 VO [ en ] Behavioural Endocrinology
• 300134 SE Ethological and ecoethological Seminar (Grünau)
• 300140 VO [ en ] Scientific contributions to behavioural endocrinology
• 300188 UE Behavioral Ecology - at the Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle in Gruenau
• 300199 UE [ de en ] ( REMOTE ) 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
• 300157 SE [ en ] Bilingualism: Neural bases and Socio-cognitive aspects
• 300352 VO [ en ] Animal Social Cognition

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

• 300010 VO Vertebrate social systems: mechanisms
• 300020 SE Seminar on current topics in behavioural biology

CoBeNe W4 Neurobiology (15 ECTS)

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