Teaching
At the University of Potsdam, there is a wide range of cognitive science courses, including a regularly offered "Introduction to Cognitive Science" (for Bachelor students, for Diploma students) and various research colloquiums, such as a colloquium on current topics in cognitive science (for Master students, for Diploma students). Contributions to the cognitive sciences related teaching* are provided by the Faculty of Humanities; in particular the Departments of Sports and Health Sciences, Linguistics and Psychology.
*Please note that most of the following course descriptions are unfortunately only available in German.
Degree Programs of the Department Sports and Health Sciences
Degree Programs of the Department Linguistics
Degree Programs of the Department Psychology
Interdisciplinary Master's programs
- IECL Internationales Master/PhD-Programm
„Experimental and Clinical Linguistics“
- CES Internationales Master´s/PhD-Program
„Clinical Exercise Science“
- Integrated Master´s/PhD-Program
„Cognitive Science: Embodied Cognition“ Internationales MSc-Programm
- „Cognitive Systems: Language, Learning, and Reasoning“
Master/PhD-Programm
PhD Programs
- University-wide graduate school „Visibility and visualisation | Hybrid forms of pictorial knowledge“
Duration of the program: 2010-2015. Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dieter Mersch, Institute for Arts and Media Subproject of the Cognitive Sciences: Prof. Dr. Reinhold Kliegl, Department of Psychology; Prof. Dr. Torsten Schaub, Institute of Computer Science
- DFG-graduate school "Intrapersonal development risks for children and adolescents" (GRK 1668/1)
Duration of the program: 2011-2015. Speaker: Prof. Dr. Birgit Elsner, Department of Psychology
- IDEALAB
(International Doctorate in Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain) as part of the Erasmus Mundus PhD program (EMJD)MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS European Training Network MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS European Training Network
- „Understanding and predicting developmental language abilities and disorders in multilingual Europe“ (PredictAble)
Duration of the program: 2015 - 2019; Duration of funding: 4 years