Master's Degree in Human Cognition and Evolution
Academic year 2025-26
You can also consult this information for the academic year 2024-25.
The adaptation process to modify this curriculum to the new version for the 2025-26 academic year has begun.
If you started the master’s programme on this curriculum version, you may either continue with it or request adaptation to the new version via the direct admission procedure. Please see the information on the adaptation due to curriculum modification procedure.
If you started the master’s programme on this curriculum version, you may either continue with it or request adaptation to the new version via the direct admission procedure. Please see the information on the adaptation due to curriculum modification procedure.
Please see the enrolment deadlines for the 2025-26 academic year for this master's programme.
To be awarded the degree, students must pass 60 ECTS credits as follows:
30 ECTS from mandatory core subjects.
15 ECTS from elective subjects:
- 6 ECTS to be required to select from advanced training subjects:
- 11199 Advanced Research into Cognitive Psychology
- 11204 Advanced Research into Cognitive Neuroscience
- 11210 Advanced Research into Social and Political Studies
- 9 ECTS to be selected from electives on the master's programme, including advanced research subjects that have not be selected as a main option.
15 ECTS from the Master's Thesis.
Subjects
| Name | Type | Credits | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11215 - Master's Thesis | Master's Thesis | 15,0 | Yearlong |
| 11191 - Theory of Evolution | Mandatory | 3,0 | 1st semester |
| 11192 - Human Evolution | Mandatory | 6,0 | 1st semester |
| 11193 - Evolution of the Mind | Mandatory | 6,0 | 1st semester |
| 11194 - Cognition and the Brain | Mandatory | 6,0 | 1st semester |
| 11195 - Socialization Processes and Plurality in Modern Societies | Mandatory | 6,0 | 1st semester |
| 11196 - Training in Scientific Research | Mandatory | 3,0 | 1st semester |
| 11199 - Advanced Research into Cognitive Psychology | Elective | 6,0 | 2nd semester |
| 11200 - Psychology of Decision-Making | Elective | 3,0 | 2nd semester |
| 11201 - Visual and Auditory Cognition | Elective | 3,0 | 2nd semester |
| 11203 - Emotion and Cognition | Elective | 3,0 | 2nd semester |
| 11204 - Advanced Research into Cognitive Neuroscience | Elective | 6,0 | 2nd semester |
| 11208 - Experimental Aesthetics and Neuroaesthetics | Elective | 3,0 | 2nd semester |
| 11209 - Moral and Neuroethical Psychology | Elective | 3,0 | 2nd semester |
| 11210 - Advanced Research into Social and Political Studies | Elective | 6,0 | 2nd semester |
| 11211 - Sexual Roles in Contemporary Societies | Elective | 6,0 | 2nd semester |
| 11212 - Applied Ethics | Elective | 6,0 | 2nd semester |
| 11213 - Ethics and Politics of Advanced Modernity | Elective | 3,0 | 2nd semester |
| 11197 - Evolutional Models of Human Social Behaviour | Elective | 3,0 | |
| 11198 - Neuronal Networks | Elective | 3,0 | |
| 11202 - Communication in Handicapped People | Elective | 3,0 | |
| 11205 - Neuropsychology of Executive Functions | Elective | 3,0 | |
| 11206 - Cognitive Aging | Elective | 3,0 | |
| 11207 - Language Processing | Elective | 3,0 | |
| 11214 - Human Migrations and Anthropology | Elective | 3,0 | |
| 20906 - Anthropology | Supplementary Training | 6,0 | |
| 21300 - General Psychology | Supplementary Training | 6,0 |