Programme structure
| 4.semester | |||||
| 3.semester | |||||
| 2.semester | Elective courses | ||||
| 1.semester | Elective courses | ||||
| ? | 10 credits | 10 credits | 10 credits | ||
In the first and second semester, all students will have mandatory courses amounting to a total of 40 ECTS. You will complete an internship within a research?project (internally at the department or with an external research collaborator)?throughout the first two semesters.?You can read more about the internship here. You will also?choose 20?ECTS?electives?in the first?and second semester.
In the third and fourth semester, you will be writing your master thesis under supervision. In these two semesters you will participate in activities like research- and writing seminars, in addition to individual supervision.
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)
2. semester (10 ECTS in the spring semester):
- PSY4316 – Visual curiosity and Learning?(5 ECTS)
- PSY4206 – Language Acquisition?(5 ECTS)
- PSY4312 – Cognitive Control in Action?(5 ECTS)
- PSY4311 – Peer reviewing and open science practices?(5 ECTS) - Not offered in the spring of 2026
- PSY4301B – Decisions, judgments, and social cognition?(5 ECTS) - Not offered in the spring of 2026
PSY4315 – Rettspsykologi ?(10 ECTS) - Course offered only in Norwegian?
Previous programme structure
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.