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Department of Life Sciences (570)
Track Psychobiology (4024)For Year:
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
Study Program
1st Year
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
51002
Statistical Thinking in Psychology B
3
2
0
318
51101
Introduction to Psychology
2
1
0
318
51102
Statistical Thinking in Psychology A
3
1
1
318
51106
Biological Basis of Behavior
4
1
1
318
51109
Brain and Behavior for Psychology Students
2
9
1
318
51110
Participation in Research
0
9
1
318
51503
Personality
2
2
3
318
51537
Psycho-biological Processes
3
2
3
318
51539
Cognitive Processes
2.5
2
0
318
74122
INFORMATION & LIBRARY RESOURCES
0
3
0
318
Total Compulsory Points: 21.5
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
69166
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY FOR BIOLOGY STUDENTS
5
2
1
+
570
69174
GENERAL CHEMISTRY FOR BIOLOGY STUDENTS
6
1
1
+
570
72155
GENERAL GENETICS A
5
2
1
570
72160
Biology basic
3
1
1
570
76222
computer based safety training- 1
0
3
1
570
77133
Mechanics 1
5
1
1
+
570
77134
Electricity, magnetism and waves 2
5
2
1
+
570
80125
MATHEMATICS FOR SCIENCE STUDENTS 1
4
1
1
+
570
Total Compulsory Points: 33
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72131
GENETICS LAB - HONOR'S PROG.
2
2
570
2nd Year
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
51103
Computers in Social Research R
2
1
0
318
51301
Experimental Psychology
4
2
2
318
51307
Statistical Methods in Psychological Research (B.A.)
3
1
2
318
51531
Guided Seminar in Psycho-biology
2
1
2
318
Total Compulsory Points: 11
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
51201
Social Psychology
2.5
1
3
318
51202
Developmental Psychology
2
1
3
318
51404
Neuropsychology
2
2
3
318
51503
Personality
2
2
3
318
51537
Psycho-biological Processes
3
2
3
318
51539
Cognitive Processes
2.5
2
3
318
51626
Abnormal Psychology
2
2
3
318
Total Compulsory Points: 16
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
51544
Seminar Paper B.A.
4
3
3
318
Total Compulsory Points: 4
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
72120
BIOCHEMISTRY OF THE CELL
6
1
2
570
72332
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
5
2
2
570
72336
INTRODUCTION TO PHYSIOLOGY
5
1
2
570
72369
NEUROBIOLOGY AND BRAIN SCIENCES
5
2
2
570
72539
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINAR IN PSYCHOBIOLOGY
2
2
2
570
76223
computer based safety training-2
0
3
2
570
76414
INFORMATION & LIBRARY RESOURCES FOR LIFE SCIEN.
0
3
2
570
Total Compulsory Points: 23
Compulsory elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72343
Nervous system physiology
5
2
570
72625
NEURAL MECHANISMS OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
5
1
570
and
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72107
Introduction to Ecology
5
1
570
72320
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
5
2
570
72339
BIOCHEMISTRY : ADVANCED LEVEL
5
1
570
72342
MICROBIOLOGY:ADVANCED LEVEL
5
2
570
72345
TOPICS IN CLASSICAL AND MOLECULAR GENETICS
5
2
570
72362
INT. TO MICROBIOLOGY - HONOR'S PROG.
4
1
570
72368
Introduction to Evolutionary Biology
4
2
570
72373
CELL BIOLOGY
5
1
570
72585
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
3
1
570
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
51107
Field Work: Info. Processing and Learning
4
9
570
51204
Field Work: Clinical Neuropsychology
4
9
570
51205
Field Work:Information Processing, Decisions and Judgments in a Post Trust Era
4
9
570
51206
Field work
4
9
570
51405
Selected Topics in Learning and Memory
4
9
570
51505
Field Work: Computational Design Principles of Cognition
4
9
570
51507
Field Work - Research
4
9
318
51513
Field Work: Studying Anxiety Disorders
4
9
318
51515
Field Work: Emotional Processes in Intergroup Conflicts
4
9
570
51525
Field Work: Social Development
4
9
318
51526
Field Work: Moral Development - Behavior Cognition Motivation and Emotion
4
9
570
51529
Field Work: Computational Cognition
4
9
570
51554
Therapeutic Community: Practical Application
4
9
318
51564
Field Work: Cognition, Emotion and Psychopathology
4
9
570
51632
Field Work: The Biology of Social Behavior
4
9
570
51685
Field Work: Judgment and Decision
4
9
570
51687
Field work: Social Cognition
4
9
570
51691
Field work: Attention in Space and Time
4
9
570
51697
Field work: Conscious, Unconscious and Social Cognition
4
9
570
51703
Field Work: Psychoneuroimmunology
4
9
570
51714
Field work: The Neuroscience of Empathy
4
9
570
51765
Field Work: The Parent-Infant Dyad - Brain, Hormones and Behavior
4
9
570
51776
Field Work: Expression and Recognition of Emotions
4
9
570
51972
Field Work: Emotion and Emotion Regulation
4
9
570
51997
Field Work: Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics
4
9
570
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72131
GENETICS LAB - HONOR'S PROG.
2
2
570
Elective studies
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72350
HUMAN GENETICS
3
1
570
72515
sociobiology
2
2
0
72582
Astrobiology of Planet Earth
2
1
570
72585
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
3
1
570
72605
VEGETATATION AND FLORA OF ISRAEL
3
1
570
72623
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior of birds
6
9
570
72625
NEURAL MECHANISMS OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
5
1
570
72639
PLANTS IN THE SERVICE OF MAN
4
2
570
72651
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF ANIMAL CELLS
2
2
570
72653
AN INSIGHT INTO PLANT DEVELOPMENT
2
2
570
72665
IMMUNOLOGY
4
1
570
72683
MOLECULAR GENETICS OF EUKARYOTES
2
1
570
72756
Biological Clocks
2
2
570
76631
PYTHON1
2
1
570
76632
PYTHON 2
2
2
570
89520
INTERREL. BETWEEN MICROORG. & THEIR ENVIRONMENT
2
2
570
89777
ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
2
1
570
90705
Guided Reading in Community Ecology
3
2
570
94667
Stem Cells
2
1
570
72616
Introduction to Biotechnology
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
72646
FISH FAUNA OF ISRAEL
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
4.5
2
570
72664
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF BACTERIA AND BACTERIOPHAGES
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
76732
Ecosystem of the Red Sea
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
1
570
89714
SYMBIOSIS
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
90106
The evolution of the animal kingdom
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
4
2
570
90820
conservation biology
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
2
570
90889
Evolution Systematics and Ecology of arachnids
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
2
570
94679
Molecular Genetics of Bacteria: A Practical Course
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
2
570
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
6111
Meaning and Computation
2
2
318
6112
INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE
4
2
570
6128
INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
4
2
318
6821
Arguments for the existence of God
2
2
570
51100
Psychology in the Arab Society
2
9
570
51111
Academic Writing for Psychologists
1
2
318
51113
Psychological Perspective on Intergroup Conflicts and their Resolution
2
2
570
51159
Mindfulness and Compassion in Everyday Life
2
2
570
51160
Social Cognition
2
2
570
51161
Psychological aspects of child maltreatment and trauma
2
2
570
51407
Psychology & Politics in Social Community Context
2
1
570
51415
Social Neuroscience
2
1
570
51509
Freud's Think. & Influences on Current Intellectual Thinking
2
1
318
51510
Field Work - Experience in Therapeutic Milieu
4
9
318
51542
Introduction to Psychometrics: Exams, Examinees and what’s in Between
2
2
570
51543
Freudian psychoanalysis
2
1
318
51553
psychoanalysis After Freud
2
2
318
51567
Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology
2
2
570
51605
Introduction to Psychotherapy Field
2
1
318
51631
The Nature and Nurture of the Social Brain
2
1
318
51692
Seminar Supervisors Without a Course
0
9
570
51772
A Look into Psychological Research
2
1
570
51787
Pirchei Mehkar - Extended Research
2
1
570
51965
Introduction to Cognitive Behavior Therapy
2
1
318
54260
Programming in Python
2
3
570
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
51113
Psychological Perspective on Intergroup Conflicts and their Resolution
2
2
570
51160
Social Cognition
2
2
570
51414
The Neuroscience of Empathy
2
2
570
51631
The Nature and Nurture of the Social Brain
2
1
570
3rd Year
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
51349
Lab. in Brain & Behavior for Psychobiology Students
1
2
0
318
72349
LAB. IN BRAIN & BEHAVIOR FOR PSYCHOBIOLOGY STU.
3
2
3
570
76224
computer based safety training- 3
0
3
0
570
Total Compulsory Points: 4
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
51201
Social Psychology
2.5
1
3
318
51202
Developmental Psychology
2
1
3
318
51404
Neuropsychology
2
2
3
318
51503
Personality
2
2
3
318
51537
Psycho-biological Processes
3
2
3
318
51539
Cognitive Processes
2.5
2
3
318
51626
Abnormal Psychology
2
2
3
318
Total Compulsory Points: 16
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
51544
Seminar Paper B.A.
4
3
3
318
Total Compulsory Points: 4
Compulsory studies
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
72398
GUIDED RESEARCH FOR PSYCHOBIOLOGY STTUDENTS
5
9
3
570
Total Compulsory Points: 5
Compulsory elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72343
Nervous system physiology
5
2
570
72625
NEURAL MECHANISMS OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
5
1
570
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
6111
Meaning and Computation
2
2
318
6112
INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE
4
2
570
6128
INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
4
2
318
6821
Arguments for the existence of God
2
2
570
51100
Psychology in the Arab Society
2
9
570
51111
Academic Writing for Psychologists
1
2
318
51113
Psychological Perspective on Intergroup Conflicts and their Resolution
2
2
570
51159
Mindfulness and Compassion in Everyday Life
2
2
570
51160
Social Cognition
2
2
570
51161
Psychological aspects of child maltreatment and trauma
2
2
570
51407
Psychology & Politics in Social Community Context
2
1
570
51415
Social Neuroscience
2
1
570
51509
Freud's Think. & Influences on Current Intellectual Thinking
2
1
318
51510
Field Work - Experience in Therapeutic Milieu
4
9
318
51542
Introduction to Psychometrics: Exams, Examinees and what’s in Between
2
2
570
51543
Freudian psychoanalysis
2
1
318
51553
psychoanalysis After Freud
2
2
318
51567
Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology
2
2
570
51605
Introduction to Psychotherapy Field
2
1
318
51631
The Nature and Nurture of the Social Brain
2
1
318
51692
Seminar Supervisors Without a Course
0
9
570
51772
A Look into Psychological Research
2
1
570
51787
Pirchei Mehkar - Extended Research
2
1
570
51965
Introduction to Cognitive Behavior Therapy
2
1
318
54260
Programming in Python
2
3
570
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
51107
Field Work: Info. Processing and Learning
4
9
570
51204
Field Work: Clinical Neuropsychology
4
9
570
51205
Field Work:Information Processing, Decisions and Judgments in a Post Trust Era
4
9
570
51206
Field work
4
9
570
51405
Selected Topics in Learning and Memory
4
9
570
51505
Field Work: Computational Design Principles of Cognition
4
9
570
51507
Field Work - Research
4
9
318
51513
Field Work: Studying Anxiety Disorders
4
9
318
51515
Field Work: Emotional Processes in Intergroup Conflicts
4
9
570
51525
Field Work: Social Development
4
9
318
51526
Field Work: Moral Development - Behavior Cognition Motivation and Emotion
4
9
570
51529
Field Work: Computational Cognition
4
9
570
51554
Therapeutic Community: Practical Application
4
9
318
51564
Field Work: Cognition, Emotion and Psychopathology
4
9
570
51632
Field Work: The Biology of Social Behavior
4
9
570
51685
Field Work: Judgment and Decision
4
9
570
51687
Field work: Social Cognition
4
9
570
51691
Field work: Attention in Space and Time
4
9
570
51697
Field work: Conscious, Unconscious and Social Cognition
4
9
570
51703
Field Work: Psychoneuroimmunology
4
9
570
51714
Field work: The Neuroscience of Empathy
4
9
570
51765
Field Work: The Parent-Infant Dyad - Brain, Hormones and Behavior
4
9
570
51776
Field Work: Expression and Recognition of Emotions
4
9
570
51972
Field Work: Emotion and Emotion Regulation
4
9
570
51997
Field Work: Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics
4
9
570
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
51414
The Neuroscience of Empathy
2
2
570
51445
Cognitive and Behavioral Characteristics of Brain Aging
2
2
570
51569
Homo Sapiens: Between non-conscious processes and consciousness
2
1
570
51601
Mathematical Modeling of Cognition
3
2
570
51607
Values Development
2
1
570
51819
Issues in Social Psychology: Pro-Seminar
2
1
570
51871
Cognitive and Motivational (in) Consistency
2
1
318
51883
Human Altruism
2
2
570
51903
Topics in Experimental Psychology A
2
1
570
51958
Psycholinguistics
2
1
570
51983
SIMULATION GAMES AND PROCESSES OF NEGOTIATIONS
3
3
570
76913
ADVANCED COGNITIVE PROCESSES
2
1
318
Elective studies
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
6125
FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY FOR COGNITION SCIENCES
4
1
570
72107
Introduction to Ecology
5
1
570
72320
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
5
2
570
72350
HUMAN GENETICS
3
1
570
72515
sociobiology
2
2
0
72582
Astrobiology of Planet Earth
2
1
570
72585
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
3
1
570
72605
VEGETATATION AND FLORA OF ISRAEL
3
1
570
72623
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior of birds
6
9
570
72625
NEURAL MECHANISMS OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
5
1
570
72639
PLANTS IN THE SERVICE OF MAN
4
2
570
72651
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF ANIMAL CELLS
2
2
570
72653
AN INSIGHT INTO PLANT DEVELOPMENT
2
2
570
72665
IMMUNOLOGY
4
1
570
72683
MOLECULAR GENETICS OF EUKARYOTES
2
1
570
72756
Biological Clocks
2
2
570
72920
Advanced Biostatistics
3
1
570
72941
The Biology of Cancer
2
2
570
76631
PYTHON1
2
1
570
76632
PYTHON 2
2
2
570
76937
THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES
2
2
570
78867
From Classic to Contemporary Neuroscience
2
1
570
88805
Biology of non-coding RNAs
2
1
570
88893
Introducation to Systems Biology
5
2
570
88895
Practical statistics using R
4
1
570
89520
INTERREL. BETWEEN MICROORG. & THEIR ENVIRONMENT
2
2
570
89777
ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
2
1
570
90705
Guided Reading in Community Ecology
3
2
570
94667
Stem Cells
2
1
570
72616
Introduction to Biotechnology
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
72646
FISH FAUNA OF ISRAEL
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
4.5
2
570
72664
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF BACTERIA AND BACTERIOPHAGES
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
76732
Ecosystem of the Red Sea
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
1
570
89714
SYMBIOSIS
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
90106
The evolution of the animal kingdom
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
4
2
570
90820
conservation biology
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
2
570
90889
Evolution Systematics and Ecology of arachnids
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
2
570
94679
Molecular Genetics of Bacteria: A Practical Course
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
2
570
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
76701
RED SEA PLANKTON
4
1
570
76702
Marine Sedimentology
5
1
570
76703
Periodicity and Rhythmicity in Marine Ecosystems
6
1
570
76704
-
4
2
570
76713
Biology and Ecology of Seagrasses in the Gulf of Eilat
4
2
570
76715
Biology and Systematics of Marine Invertebrates
4
2
570
76716
Marine Microbiology
7
2
570
76724
MARINE PHOTOSYNTHESIS
6
2
570
76733
The Nano-Injection System of Cnidaria
4
2
570
76741
Environmental Processes in the Gulf of Aqaba
4
1
570
76711
Marine Venoms and Defence Systems
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
1
570
76731
Ecosystem of the Red Sea
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
1
570
76732
Ecosystem of the Red Sea
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
1
570
90610
Quantitative Methods in Marine Ecology
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
7
2
570
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
51113
Psychological Perspective on Intergroup Conflicts and their Resolution
2
2
570
51160
Social Cognition
2
2
570
51414
The Neuroscience of Empathy
2
2
570
51631
The Nature and Nurture of the Social Brain
2
1
570
Scope of studies in the track
Total Point in program Life Sciences
( 570)
Total Point in program Psychobiology Program
( 318)
Compulsory
Compulsory in the teaching program
39
Compulsory basic studies
25
Compulsory elective
15-21
Elective in the teaching program
4-9
Total in the teaching program
88
Cornerstone Program
4
Additional teaching program
58
Total for the degree (minimum)
150
years for the degree
3
3
Total percentage of tuition for the degree
300
300
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