Organization

Note: The calendar and schedules for the next academic year will be published in June. While the overall structure will remain largely the same, the specific timetable for individual courses may change, though always within the same general time frame as currently planned.

General calendar

The master’s program begins in September 2025, during which various reception and welcome activities are held, as well as informational sessions and open-house events for selecting internship centers and TFM (Master’s Thesis) and external internship supervisors.

The academic activities themselves are structured in two parts: the first consists of teaching and examinations and runs from October 2025 until mid‑March 2026. The second consists of research internships or internships in external neuropsychology centers and covers the period from mid‑March to mid‑June 2026 (for which schedules will be set according to the internship center or laboratory where the student completes their placement).

The teaching period is also divided into two parts: the first runs from October 6 to November 28, 2025; the second from January 8 to March 4, 2026. After each teaching period, there will be an exam week, with exact dates detailed below.

Courses will be taught in the CIMCYC seminar rooms and in the Faculty of Psychology, following the organization and schedules indicated. The TFM defense is scheduled for the second week of July 2026.

Schedules for the first and second teaching periods

The first teaching period runs from October 6 to November 28, 2025, and the second from January 8 to March 4, 2026.

Check the schedule here.

Note: Course titles presented in English refer to classes offered in both English and Spanish. Group A always corresponds to the English‑taught courses, while Group B represents those taught in Spanish.

Regular exam session for the first and second periods

Check the calendar and schedule here.

Extraordinary exam session

Extraordinary exams will take place during the week of September 1–5, 2025. The exact date must be arranged with the instructor responsible for each subject.

Master’s Program Coordinator: Ana Belén Chica Martínez (anachica@ugr.es; the coordinator’s contact information and student office hours can be found permanently updated at this link in the UGR directory)

Secretary and Coordinator of the Neuropsychology Track: Carmen Sáez (csaez@ugr.es)

Master’s Academic Committee (CAM):

Ana Belén Chica Martínez (Coordinator)
Carmen Sáez Zea (Coordinator of the Neuropsychology track and external internships, and Secretary of the Master’s Program)
José César Perales López (Website Editor)
Mª Ángeles Ballesteros Duperón (Representative of the Psychobiology Area)
Mariagrazia Capizzi (Head of Internationalization)
María Alejandra Marful Quiroga
Nieves Revert Alcántara (Representative of External Centers)
Elected Student Representative

Specific Roles:

Mariagrazia Capizzi (Coordinator of the Double Degree and Internationalization)
Elisa Martín Arévalo (Head of Equality, Inclusion, and Well‑being)

Exam Review Committee:

President: José César Perales
Members: Milagros Gallo Torre and Juan Lupiáñez Castillo
Alternates: Daniel Sanabria Lucena, María Jesús Funes Molina, and Ana Belén Chica Martínez

The Internal Quality Assurance Committee of the Degree (CIGC) is integrated into the Academic Committee, in accordance with the Master’s Regulations. Its composition and regulations can be found here.

Horizontal and vertical coordination within the Master’s Program is a shared responsibility among the Coordinator, the Coordinator of the Neuropsychology track, the Academic Committee/Internal Quality Assurance Committee, and the course leaders of the various subjects.

The Master’s Coordinator is responsible for overall coordination and for promoting the initiatives and agreements adopted. To enhance synergy, the Academic Committee and the Internal Quality Assurance Committee operate jointly. The number of meetings ranges from 5 to 10 per academic year, depending on the needs identified through ongoing coordination.

Course leaders are responsible for horizontal coordination within each theoretical subject, ensuring compliance with the teaching guide agreed upon by the instructors and approved by the CAM. Coordination of research internships falls to the Coordinator, while coordination of external center internships corresponds to the Coordinator of the Neuropsychology track. Both internship subjects are governed by their respective academic guides, which are agreed upon and approved by the CAM, and all supervisors are duly informed at the beginning of the academic year.

In addition to the coordination inherent to the normal functioning of the Master’s management bodies, a series of specific mechanisms and tools are proposed to facilitate horizontal and vertical teaching coordination within the Master’s in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience.

First, faculty must prepare and review the Teaching Guides for each subject annually, in accordance with the Degree Verification Report. Before their annual approval, the Academic Guide Coordinator and the Equality, Inclusion, and Well‑being Coordinator (see CAM and specific roles above) verify:

the formal and content coherence of all guides,
their alignment with the degree’s verification report,
consistency across different groups of the same subject,
accessibility of the guides,
use of inclusive and non‑sexist language,
compliance with the evaluation regulations established by the International Graduate School and the UGR, and
any other aspects that may affect students’ rights and responsibilities regarding teaching delivery.

Any required modifications are communicated to the Coordinator and the relevant instructors for correction. Each guide undergoes this process as many times as necessary before being evaluated and approved by the CAM.

Second, teamwork among the program’s instructors will be strengthened, promoted, and coordinated by the Master’s Academic Committee, which will hold meetings with the rest of the teaching staff to analyze and resolve emerging issues and to support the development of horizontal (semester and academic year) and vertical (academic year, student needs, and pathways) teaching planning.

Third, at the end of each teaching period (December and March), a meeting is held with students to gather information—among other aspects related to teaching development—on the level of coordination among instructors within each group (when more than one instructor teaches the same group), among instructors of different groups of the same subject (when multiple groups exist), and among instructors of different subjects. Specifically evaluated are discontinuities within the same subject, differences in evaluation criteria or difficulty both within and between groups, content overlap, and periods in which workload across subjects interferes with one another. Based on this information, detailed reports with improvement proposals are prepared for each instructor.

Finally, the International Graduate School, together with the coordinators of the Official Postgraduate Programs at the UGR, commits to the following general quality‑related objectives, directly connected to the purpose of teaching coordination:

Promote a culture of quality and continuous, systematic improvement in the administrative and academic functioning of postgraduate programs.
Ensure the implementation, with maximum objectivity and independence, of the postgraduate Quality Assurance System (SGC), through which program quality is managed in a planned manner.
Ensure convergence with the European Higher Education Area across all dimensions of training programs: learning‑based teaching methodologies, learning objectives, teaching roles, materials, etc.
Ensure that effectiveness, efficiency, and transparency guide the management of the International Graduate School and the postgraduate programs it oversees.
Enhance teaching quality by establishing coordination mechanisms, ensuring the suitability of teaching programs, facilitating faculty participation in training processes, ensuring an efficient support structure for continuous teaching improvement, and encouraging methodological innovation among postgraduate instructors.
Improve student satisfaction through direct and individualized support that facilitates progress, prevents dropout, improves academic performance, and positions students competitively for entry into the labor market or research.

The International Graduate School defines the criteria and specific procedure for a possible discontinuation of the degree, ensuring the rights of students enrolled in a suspended program. The relevant regulations can be consulted at: https://masteres.ugr.es/mtaf/pages/info_administrativa/extincion

This is a common procedure for all Official Postgraduate Degrees at the UGR, and the following criteria will be considered for temporary or permanent suspension of the Master’s Program:

When the degree does not pass the accreditation process established in Article 27 of Royal Decree 1393/2007.
When the University Council considers that modifications introduced to the degree constitute a significant change in the nature and objectives of the degree previously registered in the RUCT, implying that it constitutes a new curriculum and must be treated as such, as established in Article 28.2 of RD 1393/2007.
When the University of Granada itself proposes a postgraduate program to replace the current one.
At the proposal of the Governing Council, based on the following criteria:
- A decrease in total enrollment and demand for admission will be grounds for considering temporary or permanent suspension of the degree or the need to redefine it within the framework of related programs offered at the university.
- A decrease in Success, Graduation, and Efficiency Rates, and other academic performance indicators, along with an increase in the Dropout Rate, will be grounds for considering temporary or permanent suspension or for introducing reforms.
- Failure to meet the quality standards established by the UGR regarding faculty (insufficient staff or deficiencies in teaching quality according to Docentia‑Granada), support personnel, resources, and services, taking into account the circumstances of each center.

The periodic review and updating of these criteria, as well as the establishment of specific thresholds for each, will be presented by the CGICP to the Advisory Council of the International Graduate School and to the UGR Governing Council.

Calendar and schedules

Exams

Management Bodies and Responsible Personnel

Faculty Coordination Criteria

Criteria and Specific Procedure for a Possible Discontinuation of the Degree