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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. semester | |||||
| 2. semester | Elective course | Elective course | |||
| 1. semester | Elective course | Elective course | |||
| ? | 10 Credits | 10 Credits | 10 Credits | ||
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)
2. semester (10 ECTS in the spring semester):
- PSY4316 – Visual curiosity and Learning?(5 ECTS)
- PSY4206 – Language Acquisition?(5 ECTS)
- PSY4311 – Peer reviewing and open science practices?(5 ECTS) - Not offered in the spring 2026
- PSY4301B – Decisions, judgments, and social cognition?(5 ECTS) - Not offered in the spring 2026
- PSY4312 – Cognitive Control in Action?(5 ECTS)
PSY4315 – Rettspsykologi ?(10 ECTS) - Course offered only in Norwegian?