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Course Registration and current Courses at the Department of Psychology

To register for any lecture, seminar or tutorial at the Department of Psychology in the summer semester, incoming exchange students have to use the registration form. Direct registration in Marvin is currently not possible for exchange students. Only if we receive the form by the deadline, you can be treated preferentially during the allocation of seminar and tutorial places. Afterwards, you can only attend courses that still have vacancies. 

The course registration dates and procedures for courses taught at other departments vary. Please check the department's websites, contact the department's exchange coordinator or the lecturer of the courses you are interested in and ask them if and how you can join their course.

Courses taught in English at the Psychology Department

Please note that the department of psychology is currently in the process of changing its Bachelor degree program. For example, if you check the course catalogue in Marvin, there are several Bachelor Psychology degrees listed. You as an exchange student are able to choose courses from all available degree programs. 

If you checked the course catalogue during the preceding semester, please be aware that some courses will not be offered in the next semester. Instead, they will be replaced with other courses due to the change in the Bachelor Psychology degree program as well as to regular alternations between winter and summer semesters. 

Please note that we can only offer a limited number of courses taught in English. As such, if you have no or only a limited knowledge of German, you will also have to participate in courses that are offered at other departments in order to receive the full amount of 30 ECTS.

Summer Semester 2025:

!!!! The deadline for the course registration for summer semester for incoming students is on Sunday, 23.03.2025 at 13h !!!!

The lecture period of the summer semester begins on 22.04.2025 and ends on 25.07.25. The exam period starts on the 28.07.25 and exams might take place during the following 2-3 weeks after the end of lectures. The summer semester ends officially on the 30.09.2025.

Courses starting with a "B-" are part of the Bachelor's degree, whilst courses starting with "M-" are part of the Master's degree. You may attend all of these courses, but this helps to estimate the level of difficulty, and you will need the lecturer's permission if you attend a course outside your own degree.

Area Course Number Module Code, Course Type and Title  ECTS

BACHELOR COURSES

Work & Organizational Psychology LV-04-a50-047 B-AOW1-Seminar B 3
Advanced topics in developmental psychology, learning/emotion/motivation, and personality psychology LV-04-a50-029 B-VELPa-Seminar E: Migration and Human Development 2
Advanced topics in developmental psychology, learning/emotion/motivation, and personality psychology LV-04-a50-035  B-VELPb-Seminar D 2
Work & Organizational Psychology LV-04-a50-151  B-AOW2b-Seminar B 2

Master Courses

Economic Psychology/ Work, Organizational and Economic Psychology* LV-04-c90-019  M-WPa/M-AOWb-Seminar  3
Theoretische Neurowissenschaft** LV-04-c08-001  M-NPb-Seminar 6

*The Work and Organizational Psychology courses are only available for exchange students who are studying in their Master's degree and have prior knowledge in Social Psychology and Work and Organizational Psychology. Please contact the lecturer if you are unsure wether you meet these requirements.
**The Neuroscientific Psychology courses are only available for exchange students who are studying in their Master's degree and have prior knowledge in Neuroscientific Psychology. Please contact the lecturer for info about ECTS.

Previous Winter Semester 2024/25:

Area Course Number Module Code, Course Type and Title  ECTS
BACHELOR COURSES
Experimental Training LV-04-a50-020 B-EXP-Praktikum A: Social Psychology and Climate Change 6
B-EXP-Praktikum I 6
Biological Psychology LV-04-a50-023 B-VBWSa-Seminar B: Psychopharmacology 2
Perception and Cognition LV-04-a50-032 B-VBWSb-Seminar A: Memory 2
Social Psychology LV-04-a50-026 B-VBWSc-Seminar A: Social Psychology and Climate Change 2
B-VBWSc-Seminar D: Social Psychology and Climate Change 2
MASTER COURSES
Economic and Social Psychology LV-04-c90-019 M-WPa/M-AOWb-Seminar: Diversity 3
Economic and Social Psychology LV-04-c90-018 M-WPa Vorlesung: Diversity 3
Economic and Social Psychology LV-04-c90-020 M-WPb Vorlesung: Change Management 3
Work and Organisational Psychology LV-04-a50-058 M-AOWa-Hauptseminar C: Health Promotion 3
Perception and Cognition LV-04-c08-002 Sensorimotor skills and motor skills in naturalistic and natural environments 2
Neuroscientific Psychology LV-04-c08-001 Theoretical Neuroscience 6

Previous Summer Semester 2024:

Please note that the list of courses is based on courses taught last year. We cannot gurantee that they will be taught again in the summer semester 2025. However, they might be useful as an orientation for incoming students to create a Learning Agreement beforehand (if needed).

Course Number Area Module Code Course Type and Title ECTS
LV-04-a50-047 Work & Organizational Psychology B-AOW1 Seminar B: Sustainable consumer behaviour 3
 LV-04-a50-029 Advanced topics in developmental psychology, learning/emotion/motivation, and personality psychology B-VELPa Seminar C: Migration and human development 2
 
MASTER COURSES
LV-04-c90-019 Economic Psychology/ Work, Organizational and Economic Psychology* M-WPa/M-AOWb Seminar: Diversity 3
LV-04-c08-001 Theoretical Neuroscience** M-NPb Seminar: Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning in Neuroscience 6
tba tba tba Seminar: Machine Learning in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science*** 6

*The Work and Organizational Psychology courses are only available for exchange students who are studying in their Master's degree and have prior knowledge in Social Psychology and Work and Organizational Psychology. Please contact the lecturer if you are unsure wether you meet these requirements.
**The Neuroscientific Psychology courses are only available for exchange students who are studying in their Master's degree and have prior knowledge in Neuroscientific Psychology. Please contact the lecturer for info about ECTS.
*** If enough students are interested, we could offer another seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience. If you want to participate and have prior knowledge in Neuroscientific Psychology, please contact us!

Other courses, departments and semesters

Exchange students may attend courses of the psychology modules listed under the following two links, if they are offered in a given semester. On these pages you can also find more details on the available modules (responsible, semester, duration, common language of instruction, recommended prior knowledge and detailed descriptions of the module contents):

You might also want to have a look which other courses are offered at the university. As an international exchange student, you have the possibility to choose modules that are not part of the Psychology degrees as long as the responsible lecturer (and the international coordinator of your home university) agrees. 

Detailed instructions how to search for courses in upcoming and previous semesters can be found in Section 5.3 of the Study Guide. (The Psychology course catalogue for the upcoming summer semester will be provided online late in March and for the upcoming winter semester late in August.)