Overview
Description
Neuroscience draws from many scientific disciplines to understand how the brain functions. The course will develop intellectual engagement, critical thinking, and communication skills to develop advanced understanding of neuroscience topics.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- integrate concepts, theories, and methods across a wide range of disciplines to analyze specific research questions and case studies in neuroscience.
- demonstrate mastery of integration and synthesis skills (composition, quantitative reasoning, and critical analysis) to explain and criticize primary research literature in neuroscience.
- demonstrate the ability to synthesize a range of information for a complex issue in neuroscience (structure, function, behavior, or disease).
- demonstrate the ability to write and present a proposal to test a novel research hypothesis on a significant integrative neuroscience problem.