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 Bachelors-level teaching :
- First year courses
- Behavioural biology is taught
within the zoology and evolutionary biology
courses.
- Second year courses
- Third year courses
Masters-level teaching:
- We are involved in two
Masters:
- Specialization program
Behavioural Ecology
in the Master
Environmental Biology:
course
home page.
This specialization program is
research oriented and is designed for students with an
interest in animal behaviour in relation to ecology,
social behaviour, conservation and welfare. The
Behavioural Ecology program takes a multi-level
approach to understanding the causes and consequences
of behaviour, with integration of evolutionary and
proximate approaches. Students can join the research
programs of the groups Behavioural Biology (Biology,
Utrecht University), Ethology & Welfare
(Veterinary Sciences, Utrecht University), the
Netherlands Institute for Ecology (NIOO) and the
Centre for Research and Conservation of the KMDA at
Antwerp Zoo. You can work on research topics such as:
'social cognition and behaviour', 'social learning and
animal innovation', 'ecology of animal personalities',
'animal migration and ecosystem connectivity', 'animal
welfare' and 'zoo breeding programs and wildlife
conservation'. The program provides a unique
multi-disciplinary approach to animal behaviour, with
work covering a variety of taxa (particularly
primates, birds, and fish).
- Track
Behavioural
Neuroscience of
the Master Neuroscience and
Cognition:
course home page.
(Neuroscience and Cognition: home
page .)
In this track students investigate
animal behaviour, animal welfare and cognitive and
neurobiological mechanisms in animals and humans. Four
research groups specifically participate in this
Master program: Behavioural Biology,
Psychopharmacology, Physics of Man and Ethology and
Welfare. MSc students of the track Behavioural
Neuroscience will learn methods ranging form
behavioural training of animals, human psychophysics,
neurophysiology, pharmacology, brain imaging, signal
processing to modelling. This track involves
experimental and computational approaches to
perception, learning, emotion, cognition, the
evolution of behaviour and animal welfare. Students
have the opportunity to follow their minor internship
abroad.
- Specific information for a master
study in the Behavioural Biology Group:
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