First year university: University of Göttingen, Germany
Second year university: Agro ParisTech, Paris, France

First year in Göttingen

Compulsory courses (33 ECTS)

1.    Welcome Course and orientation week (2 weeks in August, no credits)
2.    Quantitative genetics and population genetics (6 ECTS)
3.    Biotechnology and molecular genetics in plant and animal breeding (6 ECTS)
4.    Selection theory, design and optimization of breeding programs (6 ECTS)
5.    Breeding schemes and programs in animal breeding (3 ECTS)
6.    Internship Animal Breeding (6 ECTS)
7.    Breeding Lab (6 ECTS)

Compulsory elective courses (should choose at least two with minimum of 9 ECTS, and fill up to 60 ECTS with elective courses)

1.    Statistical genetics, breeding informatics and experimental design  (6 ECTS)
2.    Legal issues in plant and animal breeding  (3 ECTS)
3.    Data Analysis with R (3 ECTS)
4.    Socioeconomics of rural development and food security  (6 ECTS)
       or
       Microeconomic Theory of Agricultural Production  (6 ECTS)
5.    Programming with R  (3 ECTS)

Second year in Paris

Introduction courses

  • Animal Experiment, Ethics and good Practices in biology (2 ECTS)
  • Biostatistics, Models and software (2 ECTS)
  • Principle and Methods in Animal Genetics (2 ECTS)
  • Scientific Project (7 ECTS)

Core courses

  • Quantitative and Statistical Genetics (3 ECTS)
  • Genome analysis (3 ECTS)
  • Genetic Diversity and Population Management (3 ECTS)
  • Multiscale Modelling applied to biological functions (4 ECTS)
  • Integrative Analysis of Reproduction (2 ECTS)
  • Transversal project on Sustainable development goals (3 ECTS)

Options - 1

  • Precision Farming (1 ECTS)
  • Advanced Genetics (1 ECTS)

Options - 2

  • Adaptation (1 ECTS)
  • Epidemiology and Health (1 ECTS)
  • Epignetics and gene regulation (1 ECTS)
  • Applied Ethology (1 ECTS)

Master thesis (30 ECTS)