PhD Learning Sciences (Promotion, Ph.D.) at LMU Munich

Structured doctoral programme (Ph.D.) in Learning Sciences at LMU Munich, taught in English. It is an interdisciplinary Promotionsstudium combining psychological, educational and subject-didactic perspectives on learning.

Faculty: Fakultät für Psychologie und Pädagogik  |  Department: Munich Center of the Learning Sciences  |  Duration: 6 semesters (180 ECTS); doctoral matriculation possible for up to 5 years  |  Intake: Winter semester only  |  Study mode: full-time; English-taught  |  Location: München, Bayern, Germany

What you will study

The programme comprises 180 ECTS: 30 ECTS in compulsory curricular modules, 140 ECTS in the scientifically supervised doctoral study and 10 ECTS for the disputation. Topic fields include neuro-cognitive mechanisms of adaptive control and plasticity, conceptual development and change, emotion, cognition and learning, effective instruction, organisational learning, technology-enhanced learning and collaboration, learning dysfunctions and intervention, and statistical methods for measuring learning and change.

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