Online Resources

Highly recommended: Pre-course in Mathematics organized by S. Krapp in preparation for the module "Interdisciplinary Primer in Language Evolution Research"): Link to  module page on OLAT here

Please email the study program coordinator to request access

Basics Course from Khan Academy: here

Particularly relevant for modules in the "Mathematical and Scripting Methods" module group:

Refresher on mathematical notations (Khan Academy)

Highly recommended: Statistics for Linguists

• Online pre-recorded lectures. Instructor: S. Krapp - Link to module page on OLAT: here 

Please email the study program coordinator to request access

• In-person teaching: If you would like to attend class in person, please register for this module through the UZH module booking system. Please note that related tutorials on basic programming in R will be offered.

Please note that ECTS credits earned from this module will not count toward the 120 ECTS credits required to complete the study program.

Modules at UZH (In-person teaching): 

Please note that these modules can be booked from 12.08.2026 to 25.08.2026 24:00

Get R_eady: Introduction to Data Analysis for Empirical Research 

Get R_eady: Prognostic & Prediction Modeling in Research

Introduction to Programming and Computational Thinking  

Please note that the ECTS credits earned from the modules listed above will not count toward the 120 ECTS credits required to complete the study program.

Link to IT Training Course Programme (UZH): Here

Programming with R (basic level)

• Basic basics 
• Introduction to R  (Datacamp)
• Posit Recipes - Some tasty R code snippets
• R Studio Education (presupposes familiarity with chapters 1-7 of the R Manuals

Please email the study program coordinator to request access

Precourse in Neuroscience (Pre-recorded lectures)

Instructor: M. Meyer

Link to module page on OLAT: here

Precourse in Neural Systems (Pre-recorded lectures)

Instructor: R. Hahnloser

Link to module page on OLAT: here

Online courses (Coursera):

Introduction to Biology: Evolution (Please note that the course itself is not free; however, it can be accessed within a 7-day free trial period). Instructor: Scott Solomon (Rice University)

Introduction to Genetics and Evolution (free). Instructor: Dr. Mohamed Noor (Duke University)

Online course (Youtube):

Introduction to Linguistics: The Complete Crash Course

Online course (Coursera):

Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics 

Instructor: Marc van Oostendorp (University of Leiden)