Project Year 1

Full course description

The projects will span a period of 8 weeks split into two blocks of 4 weeks; one block in Period 3 and one in Period 6. Projects (in Years 1 and 2) integrate the knowledge and skills acquired in the courses into a real-life case that resembles what graduates face in a work environment, while benefitting from support of professionals and fellow students. Within an academic year, students will focus on a single project over a time period divided over periods 3 and 6. The work will be shared among a few students and will involve diverse activities. The core idea of the Project period in Year 1 is that students experience the various stages in the empirical cycle (or at least a subset of these stages).

Students can opt for a variety of projects that may be more or less focused on specific subdomains of Brain Science. For example, students may perform observational exercises, do simple procedures in the molecular lab (limited availability), do psychophysical experiments, do simple EEG measurements (e.g., alpha measurements under specific conditions), etc. In these various situations, students will get exposed to software use, creation or modification, and simple aspects of data analysis. Students will report on the projects in oral and written form. Projects are prepared by project coaches and adapted to the background level of students in Year 1 (or 2).

The final assessment for this course is pass or fail - and not a numerical grade between 0,0 and 10,0.