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Department of Life Sciences (570)
Track Life Sciences Cognition in dual major track (4025)For Year:
2025
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
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
0
570
72160
Biology basic
3
1
0
570
72301
Introduction to probability and statistics
4
2
1
570
76222
computer based safety training- 1
0
3
1
570
76408
Information & Library resources for science students
0
3
2
570
77133
Mechanics 1
5
1
0
570
77134
Electricity, magnetism and waves 2
5
2
0
570
Total Compulsory Points: 33
Compulsory studies
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
6115
Cognitive Processes for Cognitive Sciences
3
2
1
143
6116
Algebra for Cognitive Science
5
1
1
143
6117
Analysis for Cognitive Science
5
2
0
143
6130
Python the Practical Aspect
2
2
0
143
6141
Object Oriented Programming for Cognitive Scie.
2
1
0
143
6166
From Nerve Cell to Behavior - for First Year Students
4
2
0
143
Total Compulsory Points: 21
Compulsory studies
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
6110
The Philos. Foundations of Cognitive Science
3
1
2
143
6112
Introduction to The Study of Language
3
1
2
143
Total Compulsory Points: 6
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
72120
BIOCHEMISTRY OF THE CELL
6
1
0
570
72332
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
5
2
2
570
76223
computer based safety training-2
0
3
0
570
76408
Information & Library resources for science students
0
3
2
570
Total Compulsory Points: 11
Compulsory studies
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
6119
Computation and Cognition
6
1
0
143
6120
B.A Seminar
2
1
2
143
6168
Neurobiology of Development and Learning
2
1
0
143
Total Compulsory Points: 10
Compulsory studies
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
6110
The Philos. Foundations of Cognitive Science
3
1
2
143
6112
Introduction to The Study of Language
3
1
2
143
Total Compulsory Points: 6
Compulsory elective studies
You must choose 2 credits from this list in the years 2nd,3rd. .
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72541
: Research seminar in life sciences- semester A
2
1
570
72542
: Research seminar in life sciences - semester B
2
2
570
and
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72107
Introduction to Ecology
5
1
570
72334
INTRODUCTION TO PLANT SCIENCE
5
1
570
72336
INTRODUCTION TO PHYSIOLOGY
5
1
570
72362
INT. TO MICROBIOLOGY - HONOR'S PROG.
4
1
570
72368
Introduction to Evolutionary Biology
4
2
570
and
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72320
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
5
2
570
72339
BIOCHEMISTRY : ADVANCED LEVEL
5
2
570
72342
MICROBIOLOGY:ADVANCED LEVEL
5
2
570
72343
Nervous system physiology
5
2
570
72345
TOPICS IN CLASSICAL AND MOLECULAR GENETICS
5
2
570
72346
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
5
2
570
72369
NEUROBIOLOGY AND BRAIN SCIENCES
5
2
570
72373
CELL BIOLOGY
5
1
570
72604
ECOLOGY - ADVANCED LEVEL
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
2
570
or
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
51102
Statistical Thinking in Psychology A
3
1
143
52220
BASIC PROBABILITY
6
2
143
72301
Introduction to probability and statistics
4
2
0
80312
PROBABILITY THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
4
1
570
80420
PROBABILITY THEORY (1)
5
1
143
and
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72350
HUMAN GENETICS
3
1
570
72368
Introduction to Evolutionary Biology
4
2
570
72585
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
3
1
570
72625
NEURAL MECHANISMS OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
1
570
or
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
6170
Cognition and Computation in Animals
3
2
143
6171
Computational Models of Cognition
3
2
143
6172
Awareness and perception
3
2
143
6173
Logics
3
2
143
6174
Topics and Methods in Human Brain Researc
4
2
143
6177
Research Methods for Cognitive Sciences
4
2
143
6828
Neuropsychiatry: Cognition of Mental Disorders
3
2
143
6175
Language and Cognition
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
3
2
143
or
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
6180
Laboratory Experience in Research Methods
4
2
143
6181
Dynamics and Coding in Neurons
4
2
143
6183
Perception to Senses
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
3
2
143
6184
The Neurophysiological Basis for Decision-Making Processes
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
3
2
143
6184
The Neurophysiological Basis for Decision-Making Processes
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
3
2
143
6185
Motor Control
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
3
2
143
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
6134
The Highest Cognition: Brain Mechanisms for Language and Arithmetic
2
2
570
6134
The Highest Cognition: Brain Mechanisms for Language and Arithmetic
2
2
570
6170
Cognition and Computation in Animals
3
2
570
6171
Computational Models of Cognition
3
2
570
6172
Awareness and perception
3
2
570
6173
Logics
3
2
570
6174
Topics and Methods in Human Brain Researc
4
2
570
6177
Research Methods for Cognitive Sciences
4
2
570
6180
Laboratory Experience in Research Methods
4
2
570
6181
Dynamics and Coding in Neurons
4
2
570
6828
Neuropsychiatry: Cognition of Mental Disorders
3
2
570
6859
Advanced Logic
3
1
570
6859
Advanced Logic
3
1
570
6861
Main Topics of Biological Psychiatry
2
1
570
6861
Main Topics of Biological Psychiatry
2
1
570
6862
Artificial Intelligence
2
1
570
6862
Artificial Intelligence
2
1
570
6863
Brain basis for language and speech
2
1
570
6865
Deep learning, Cognition and Brain
2
2
570
15141
Logic, cognition, computation
2
2
570
15998
On Pain
2
1
570
51201
Social Psychology
2.5
1
143
51202
Developmental Psychology
2
1
143
51404
Neuropsychology
2
2
143
51631
The Nature and Nurture of the Social Brain
2
1
143
72368
Introduction to Evolutionary Biology
4
2
570
76903
Neuroscience of Behavior
2
1
570
76903
Neuroscience of Behavior
2
1
570
76903
Neuroscience of Behavior
2
1
570
6111
Meaning and Computation
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
2
143
6160
The computations that make us who we are.
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
6169
Animal Cognition
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
2
570
6839
Fine Lines : An Interdisciplinary Seminar in Cognition, Brain and Art
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
2
570
6839
Fine Lines : An Interdisciplinary Seminar in Cognition, Brain and Art
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
2
570
15342
Current Topics in Philosophy of Mind: the Interface between Philosophy and Science
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
15902
Perceptual Experience and Valence
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
2
570
51415
Social Neuroscience
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
Elective studies
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72329
GUIDED PROJECT IN BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
5
9
570
72350
HUMAN GENETICS
3
1
570
72585
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
3
1
570
72605
VEGETATATION AND FLORA OF ISRAEL
3
1
570
72639
PLANTS IN THE SERVICE OF MAN
4
2
570
72651
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF ANIMAL CELLS
3
2
570
72653
AN INSIGHT INTO PLANT DEVELOPMENT
2
2
570
72665
IMMUNOLOGY
4
1
570
72683
MOLECULAR GENETICS OF EUKARYOTES
2
1
570
94667
Stem Cells
2
1
570
72623
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior of birds
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
6
9
570
72625
NEURAL MECHANISMS OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
1
570
89777
ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
3rd Year
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
76224
computer based safety training- 3
0
3
0
570
Total Compulsory Points: 0
Compulsory studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Until year
Basic course
Teaching program
6119
Computation and Cognition
6
1
3
143
6124
Seminar Paper
4
9
3
143
Total Compulsory Points: 10
Compulsory elective studies
You must choose 2 credits from this list .
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72520
UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR: EVOLUTION, SYSTEMATICS, E
2
2
570
72521
UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR: GENETICS
2
2
570
72524
UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR: PLANT SCIENCES
2
2
570
72525
SEMINAR: STRUCTURAL AND MOLECULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
2
2
570
72526
UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR: BRAIN & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
2
2
570
72522
Undergraduate seminar: Cellular and developmental biology.
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
2
570
and
You must choose 2 credits from this list in the years 2nd,3rd. .
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72541
: Research seminar in life sciences- semester A
2
1
570
72542
: Research seminar in life sciences - semester B
2
2
570
and
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72320
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
5
2
570
72339
BIOCHEMISTRY : ADVANCED LEVEL
5
2
570
72342
MICROBIOLOGY:ADVANCED LEVEL
5
2
570
72343
Nervous system physiology
5
2
570
72345
TOPICS IN CLASSICAL AND MOLECULAR GENETICS
5
2
570
72346
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
5
2
570
72369
NEUROBIOLOGY AND BRAIN SCIENCES
5
2
570
72373
CELL BIOLOGY
5
1
570
72604
ECOLOGY - ADVANCED LEVEL
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
2
570
and
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72350
HUMAN GENETICS
3
1
570
72368
Introduction to Evolutionary Biology
4
2
570
72585
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
3
1
570
72625
NEURAL MECHANISMS OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
1
570
and
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
72329
GUIDED PROJECT IN BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
5
9
570
72350
HUMAN GENETICS
3
1
570
72501
MICROBIAL ECOLOGY
4
2
570
72582
Astrobiology of Planet Earth
2
1
570
72585
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
3
1
570
72605
VEGETATATION AND FLORA OF ISRAEL
3
1
570
72639
PLANTS IN THE SERVICE OF MAN
4
2
570
72651
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF ANIMAL CELLS
3
2
570
72653
AN INSIGHT INTO PLANT DEVELOPMENT
2
2
570
72659
Population Genetics
4
1
570
72665
IMMUNOLOGY
4
1
570
72683
MOLECULAR GENETICS OF EUKARYOTES
2
1
570
72920
Advanced Biostatistics
3
1
570
72940
Advanced Methods in Molecular Biology
4
5
570
72941
The Biology of Cancer
3
2
570
88805
Biology of non-coding RNAs
2
1
570
88895
Practical statistics using R
4
2
570
94667
Stem Cells
2
1
570
72623
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior of birds
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
6
9
570
72625
NEURAL MECHANISMS OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
1
570
72668
MOVEMENT ECOLOGY
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
6
9
570
72942
Computational Biostatistics
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
3
1
570
89777
ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
90106
The evolution of the animal kingdom
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
4
2
570
90889
Evolution Systematics and Ecology of arachnids
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
5
2
570
and
.
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
6016
Research Methods in Social Activism
4
9
143
6137
Individual Research Project in The Lab.
4
9
570
51507
Field Work - Research
4
9
570
72396
PROJECT IN BIOL. RESEARCH - HONOR'S PROG.
5
9
570
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
6134
The Highest Cognition: Brain Mechanisms for Language and Arithmetic
2
2
570
6134
The Highest Cognition: Brain Mechanisms for Language and Arithmetic
2
2
570
6170
Cognition and Computation in Animals
3
2
570
6171
Computational Models of Cognition
3
2
570
6172
Awareness and perception
3
2
570
6173
Logics
3
2
570
6174
Topics and Methods in Human Brain Researc
4
2
570
6177
Research Methods for Cognitive Sciences
4
2
570
6180
Laboratory Experience in Research Methods
4
2
570
6181
Dynamics and Coding in Neurons
4
2
570
6828
Neuropsychiatry: Cognition of Mental Disorders
3
2
570
6859
Advanced Logic
3
1
570
6859
Advanced Logic
3
1
570
6861
Main Topics of Biological Psychiatry
2
1
570
6861
Main Topics of Biological Psychiatry
2
1
570
6862
Artificial Intelligence
2
1
570
6862
Artificial Intelligence
2
1
570
6863
Brain basis for language and speech
2
1
570
6865
Deep learning, Cognition and Brain
2
2
570
15141
Logic, cognition, computation
2
2
570
15998
On Pain
2
1
570
51201
Social Psychology
2.5
1
143
51202
Developmental Psychology
2
1
143
51404
Neuropsychology
2
2
143
51631
The Nature and Nurture of the Social Brain
2
1
143
72368
Introduction to Evolutionary Biology
4
2
570
76903
Neuroscience of Behavior
2
1
570
76903
Neuroscience of Behavior
2
1
570
76903
Neuroscience of Behavior
2
1
570
6111
Meaning and Computation
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
2
143
6160
The computations that make us who we are.
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
6169
Animal Cognition
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
2
570
6839
Fine Lines : An Interdisciplinary Seminar in Cognition, Brain and Art
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
2
570
6839
Fine Lines : An Interdisciplinary Seminar in Cognition, Brain and Art
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
2
570
15342
Current Topics in Philosophy of Mind: the Interface between Philosophy and Science
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
15902
Perceptual Experience and Valence
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
2
570
51415
Social Neuroscience
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
6828
Neuropsychiatry: Cognition of Mental Disorders
3
2
143
34861
Introduction to Language Processing
1
1
143
34940
Read, Part A: A Fundamental Processes of Reading
3
1
143
34995
Reading - Part B: Reading, Disabilities
2
2
143
51601
Mathematical Modeling of Cognition
3
2
570
51983
Simulation Games and Processes of Negotiation
3
1
570
67577
Introduction to Machine Learning
5
2
143
67658
Natural Language Processing
3
1
143
72369
NEUROBIOLOGY AND BRAIN SCIENCES
5
2
143
76900
From Molecules to Circuits
3
2
143
76901
Systems Neuroscience
3
1
143
76903
Neuroscience of Behavior
2
1
570
76908
Dynamics of Computation in the Brain
4
2
143
76915
Information and Coding in the Brain
4
1
143
76915
Information and Coding in the Brain
4
1
143
76920
Colloquium in Brain Sciences
0
9
143
76931
Dynamical Systems and the Neuron
2
1
143
76937
The Biological Basis of Neurodegenerative Diseases
2
2
143
76949
The Degenerating Brain: From Research to Hope
2
2
143
76952
Recent Developments in Molecular Neuroscience
4
9
143
76956
Modeling Neurons and Neuronal Networks
2
2
143
80428
GAME THEORY (1)
3
2
143
51414
The Neuroscience of Empathy
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
2
570
51577
Fundamentals of Cognitive Electrophysiology
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
51871
Cognitive and Motivational (in) Consistency
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
67548
Introduction to Information and Inference
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
4
1
143
77902
Physics, Brain and Free Will
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
2
1
570
Elective studies
Course id
Course name
Points
Semester
Teaching program
76701
RED SEA PLANKTON
4
2
570
76702
Marine Sedimentology
5
1
570
76703
Periodicity and Rhythmicity in Marine Ecosystems
6
1
570
76704
-
4
1
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
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
76716
Marine Microbiology
(NOT TAUGHT THIS YEAR)
7
2
570
Scope of studies in the track
Total Point in program Life Sciences
( 570)
Total Point in program Cognitive and Brain Sciences
( 143)
Compulsory
Compulsory in the teaching program
23
Compulsory basic studies
25
Compulsory elective
29-34
Elective in the teaching program
2-4
Total in the teaching program
85
Additional teaching program
68
Total for the degree (minimum)
153
years for the degree
3
3
Total percentage of tuition for the degree
300
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