Human Biology
Follow-up Master's degree in full-time form. The language of instruction is Czech.
The programme can be studied only as a single subject.
Admission to Master's degree programmes in 2024/2025 (beginning: Autumn 2024)
Submission deadline until midnight 30 April 2024.
What will you learn?
Research of the human population (both recent and historical) can no longer be carried out only by the classical way. Into human biology research is necessary to integrate new laboratory, experimental methods from the biological fields. Especially methods of genetic and molecular biology.
The aim of the study program Human Biology is to create an experimental study course that will educate specialists able to apply methodology used in biology and chemistry, with a special focus on methods of genetics and molecular biology in the research of the human population (both recent and historical). Specialists who have been trained to work in a molecular biology lab, they have been able to apply the latest methods to both the recent man and the historical person. But at the same time, they have extensive knowledge of human anatomy and classical biological anthropology on the level of both the recent and the historical population. At the same time, they would be able to combine the knowledge gained by the latest laboratory methods at the molecular level and the classical anthropological pathway and were able to capture the whole human being from the molecular level. The teaching of application and modification of molecular biology and genetics methods to the anthropological material is an important feature characterizing program Human Biology.All mankind is of one origin - dr. Aleš Hrdlička
Practical training
Students of the master's degree course will pass the field practice in the spring semester of the first year within a minimum of one week (5 working days). The content of the practice is to work with the human skeletal material or practice in an institution working with members of recent human populations. The area of practice is selected by the student according to the diploma thesis. The student will find the workplace by himself, after prior consultation with the supervisor of practice, who has to approve workplace selection.
Further information
http://www.sci.muni.cz/cz/BcMgrStudium/
http://www.sci.muni.cz/ueb/studium/magisterske-studium/
Career opportunities
The advantage of graduates of the Human Biology study program is the interconnection of knowledge in the fields of anthropology and molecular biology and genetics and the knowledge of work in the laboratory, which extends their possibilities of finding a job.
The graduate of the Human Biology study program is prepared for work in the field of biological anthropology and areas of molecular biology and genetics. This guarantees quite a wide range of possibilities to succeed. A graduate can work in archeological organizations, museums, universities, in healthcare, in the field of recent population studies or in laboratories with genetic analysis. Students can also found a job in companies which focus on the development of new products in molecular biology or their applications. Last but not least, they can find a job in both national and private forensic laboratories.
Admission requirements
This study field is possible to study only in Czech language.
Criteria for evaluation
Result of entrance test
Recommended literature
As seen on bachelor exam.
Minimum score and numbers of accepted applicants in past years
Study options
Single-subject studies
Students have a pre-defined list of required courses, which are supplemented with selective and elective courses. The student pays full attention to the single field of study chosen.
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Full-time studies in czech
What will you learn?
Courses – curriculum examples
An example of your study plan:
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1. semester
- Clinical anthropology
- Diploma thesis Human biology I
- Handling chemical substances
- Human osteology
- Introduction to human aDNA studies
- Introduction to the Study of Archaeology
- Laboratory practice in historical anthropology I
- Molecular biology of eukaryotes
- Nonhuman DNA in Human Biology
- Practical course of molecular biology of eukaryotes
- Seminar of Human Biology I MSc.
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2. semester
- Anthropogenetics in praxis
- Diploma thesis Human Biology II
- Exkursion HUBI
- Field practice in historical anthropology III
- Human paleogenetics
- Laboratory sampling for aDNA analysis
- Medical genetics and genetic counseling
- Population genetics
- Population genetics practice
- Seminar Human Biology II MSc.
- Variability of human population
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3. semester
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4. semester
Detailed information about study plan courses
Follow-up studies
The graduate of the Master's program of Human Biology can continue (after the admission requirements) in doctoral studies in the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University: Molecular and Cell Biology, General and Molecular Genetics, Anthropology. The graduate can continue in doctoral studies in the Faculty of Medicine or in similarly conceived fields of doctoral studies at other universities in the Czech Republic or abroad.
Study information
| Provided by | Faculty of Science | |
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| Type of studies | Follow-up master's | |
| Mode | full-time | Yes |
| combined | No | |
| distance | No | |
| Study options | single-subject studies | Yes |
| single-subject studies with specialization | No | |
| major/minor studies | No | |
| Standard length of studies | 2 years | |
| Language of instruction | Czech | |
Do you have any questions?
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RNDr. Pavel Lízal, Ph.D.
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