Cognitive Science
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Study Plan: Cognitive Science
1st semester 33 CP | Statistics I | Cognitive Science |
Elective Module(s) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 CP | ||||||||||
Bridge Module and Elective Module | ||||||||||
| 6 CP (accredited with finishing Statistics II) | 15 CP | 6 CP | 6 CP | |||||||
2nd semester 27 CP | Statistics II | Cognitive Neuroscience | Mathematical Modelling in Cognitive Science | Bridge Module or Elective Module | ||||||
| 6 CP | 9 CP | 6 CP | 6 CP | |||||||
3rd semester 30 CP | CSE-MA-017 Individual Research Module | Elective Module(s) | ||||||||
| 15 CP | 18 CP | |||||||||
4th semester 30 CP | Master's Thesis | |||||||||
| 30 CP | ||||||||||
Make sure to consult the study regulations. Together with this table, they tell you everything you need to know about how to plan your studies!
Modules
When selecting your courses for the semester via PULS, it is decisive for which module you select the respective course! Some courses might be available for more than one category. This means that a course might be able to be accounted both as bridge module or as elective module, or you might be able to find a course in two different elective modules. During the registration of the course via PULS you decide which module the course will be attributed to! If you select and complete a course for a module in PULS, you cannot attribute another course to this module any longer. Hence, if you have a specific course you definitely want to attend, you should pay attention not to accidentally assign the respective module to another course when choosing a more arbitrary course.
Another important information for planning your studies is that you can take more courses than you can get attributed. This works in the following way: In PULS, you can sign up for all of your modules once. Due to the fact that you have to choose only a subset of your elective modules, this gives you the opportunity of taking "more courses than you actually need".
Still, for your final credits and grade you need to have the exact number of credit points that is required of you: No more and no less! If you have more elective module credits than you need to complete your studies, at the end of your studies in PULS you can choose which elective courses you want to count into your grade. If you do not specify which courses you want to have counted, the default is the order of passing the courses.
Obligatory Modules
Elective Modules
Bridge Modules
Cognitive Science - Embodied Cognition (discontinued)
Study Plan: Cognitive Science - Embodied Cognition (discontinued)
1st semester 28 LP | Statistics I | Cognitive Science - Embodied Cognition | Bridge Module | |||
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| 4 LP (accredited with finishing Statistics II) | 15 LP | 9 LP | ||||
2nd semester 32 LP | Statistics II | Neuroscience of Embodied Cognition | Advanced Methods: Experimental Programming | Language and Development or Philosophy of Neuroscience and Embodied Cognition | Cognitive and Sensorimotor Development or Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychology and the Body | |
| 5 LP | 9 LP | 6 LP | 6 LP | 6 LP | ||
3rd semester 30 LP | Mathematical Modelling in Neurocognitive Psychology | Individual Research Module | Developmental Science and Embodiment or Neurolinguistic Perspectives | |||
| 9 LP | 15 LP | 6 LP | ||||
4th semester 30 LP | Master's Thesis | |||||
| 30 LP | ||||||
Make sure to consult the study regulations. Together with this table, they tell you everything you need to know about how to plan your studies!
Modules
Obligatory Modules
Elective Modules
Bridge Modules
Taking classes at other universities
The Uni Potsdam, especially Cognitive Science - Embodied Cognition, is very lenient with accrediting classes taken outside of the programme, and classes offered by other universities. This fosters interdisciplinarity, connections between Potsdam and Berlin students, lecturers and research topics. It is even possible to get credit for a class taken at a university outside of the Potsdam-Berlin circuit.
The class needs to fulfill the following requirements:
- It is offered at the Master's level, i.e. it is part of the curriculum of a Master's programme.
- It is held in English.
- It is worth at least 6 credit points.
- It suits the topic of Cognitive Science.
- If the class is not held at Uni Potsdam: the topic and scope of the class is not covered by a course currently offered at the Uni Potsdam.
You need to take the following steps:
- Contact the lecturer of the class you want whether you are allowed to take it and what form of examination you are expected to take to get credit.
- Contact the study board with a filled out request for approval and a suggestion which module you would like to replace with the class.
- Attend your selected class and earn your credit.
- Have your lecturer attest your credit in the following form.
- Send in a filled out request for recognition following the steps outlined here.