Social and Behavioral Sciences

The focus of this program is on individual behavior from three social science perspectives: social psychology, sociology, and organization studies. In the first year, these perspectives are studied both separately and in combination. The second year is characterized by specialization. You van specialize in: Methodology and Statistics, Social Psychology, Sociology or Organization Studies. Each specialization offers internal and international traineeships, specialized content and statistics courses.A largest part of the program consists of research parts : Students learn everything there is to know about doing scientific research by means of a hands-on approach. This entails taking part in research of the research groups involved in the research master, and doing your own research supervised by a researcher from these groups.The specific activities are: international traineeship, intern traineeships, visiting seminars and colloquia, learning about ethics, writing a first-year paper and the Master’s thesis. In the latter two students carry out a research project from start to end.