Programme structure
The Cognitive Neuroscience master is a full time program. Learning activities are organized according to the following plan for 120 credits in total.
Programme structure
Programme structure for students starting in autumn 2024:
| 4. semester | PSY4092 – Master thesis in Psychology | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. semester | PSY4092 – Master thesis in Psychology | ||||
| 2. semester | PSY4340 – Internship | PSY4309 – Trends in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience 2 | PSY4320 – Research methods in cognitive neuroscience Part II | Elective course | Elective course |
| 1. semester | PSY4340 – Internship | PSY4307 – Fundamentals of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience | PSY4310 – Research methods in cognitive neuroscience Part I | Elective course | Elective course |
| 10 Credits | 10 Credits | 10 Credits | |||
Programme structure for students who started fall 2020 - fall 2023
In the first and second semester, all students will have mandatory courses 40 ECTS. An intership within a Research Project (internally at the Department or with an external research- collaborator) is stretched over the two first semesters. You can read more about the internship on this webpage. Students also have to choose 20 ECTS electives on the first and second semester.
In the third and fourth semester the students will be writing their master thesis and get supervision. There will be activites like research seminars and writing seminars in these two semesters.
Students wanting to go on exchange will have the opportunity in the third semester.
Elective courses
1. semester (10 ECTS in the autumn semester):
- PSY4303B – Vision and the Brain (5 ECTS)
- PSY4313 – Music Cognition (5 ECTS)
- PSY4314 – Research communication in cognitive neuroscience (5 ECTS)
- PSY4318 – Multidisciplinary Studies of Consciousness (5 ECTS) (offered for the last time in the fall semester 2024)
2. semester (10 ECTS in the spring semester):
- PSY4316 – Visual curiosity and Learning (5 ECTS)
- PSY4317 – Hemispheric asymmetry and cognition (5 ECTS) - course not offered in the spring semester 2025!
- PSY4206 – Language Acquisition (5 ECTS)
- PSY4311 – Peer reviewing and open science practices (5 ECTS)
- PSY4301B – Decisions, judgments, and social cognition (5 ECTS)
- PSY4312 – Cognitive Control in Action (5 ECTS)
Discover Your Future
Through the master's degree, you will be offered a complete programme to make it easier for you to discover your opportunities along the way and to make way for good choices later. Discover your future consists of four courses, one for each semester of the master's degree. The courses consist of a combination of four e-learning modules in Canvas, which you can take as you see fit, as well as some physical workshops where you get the opportunity to work on the various topics. Read more
Honours certificate
Are you academically ambitious? It is possible to supplement your master`s degree with an honours certificate worth 20 credits. You take the certificate concurrently with the masters`degree.
Study quality
Information about Study Quality at the Department of Psychology can be found here.