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 ] 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 - (Data Analysis and modeling)
• 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
• 300149 VU [ en ] Field Methods for Tracking Animal Movement
• 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

CoBeNe 4 Individual Specialization (15 ECTS)

• 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
• 300232 UE [ en ] Fluorescence staining, confocal microscopy and computer generated 3D-reconstruction
• 300300 SE [ en ] Seminar for Masters Students in Animal Behaviour
• 300373 VO [ en ] Introduction to primate societies
• 300396 SE [ en ] Primatology
• 300397 SE [ en ] 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 ] 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
• 300199 UE [ de en ] 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 ] The Neuroscience of Language
• 300352 VO [ en ] Animal Social Cognition

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

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

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