This course is an introduction to the methods used in neuroscience research. Students participate in experimental design, data collection, statistical analysis and interpretation, and manuscript preparation. Students also are exposed to research techniques including surgery, histology, and pharmacological manipulations. Students are encouraged to take a course in statistical applications (SOCS233 or MATH 106) prior to enrolling in this course. This course offers Writing Intensive credit.

This course is an examination of the fundamental function of the nervous system. Molecular examination of the electrical and chemical properties of the nervous system is studied, then put into systemic context through examination of pharmacological effects and learning paradigms. Cross-listed in Neuroscience and Psychology.

This course provides the student with an understanding and an appreciation of the development and the structural/functional organization of the central nervous system. The architecture of the nervous system is examined with a special emphasis on sensory and motor modalities, functions, and disorders across a variety of species. Students participate in dissection exercises with nervous system tissue.

Students work on an independent research project under the direction of a faculty member. Majors may not enroll for more than four terms of this course.