Neuroscience, BS

Required Credit Hours:

A minimum of 33 (plus 28 credit hours in prerequisites). Exemptions to this requirement must be approved by the Program Director. Alterations in the prescribed curriculum, while not encouraged, may be petitioned to the Committee on Honors and Interdisciplinary Studies. The major writing requirement is satisfied by passing KINE 401 KINE 401 - Neurophysiology of Aging or NSCI 300 - Writing in the Neurosciences or NSCI 495 - Honors in Neuroscience .

Prerequisite Courses:

BIOL 204 - Introduction to Organisms, Ecology, Evolution (3)
BIOL 204L - Introduction to Biology Laboratory (Spring) (1)
BIOL 203 - Introduction to Molecules, Cells, Development (3)
BIOL 203L - Introduction to Biology Laboratory (Fall) (1)
CHEM 103 - General Chemistry I (3)
CHEM 206 - Organic Chemistry I (3)
MATH 111 - Calculus I (4) or
MATH 131 - Calculus I for Life Sciences (4)
MATH 112 - Calculus II (4) or
MATH 132 - Calculus II for Life Sciences (4)
PSYC 201 - Introduction to Psychology as a Natural Science (3)
PSYC 301 - Elementary Statistics (4) or
MATH 106 - Elementary Probability and Statistics (3) or
KINE 394 - Statistics and Evaluation (3)

Required Courses:

APSC 351 - Cellular Biophysics and Modeling (3)
BIOL 310 - Molecular Cell Biology (3)
BIOL 345 - Neurobiology (3)
CHEM 207 - Organic Chemistry II for Life Sciences (3) or
CHEM 209 - Organic Chemistry II (3)
CHEM 205 - Advanced Freshman Chemistry (3) or
CHEM 208 - General Chemistry II and Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry (3)
PSYC 311 - Cognitive Psychology (3)
PSYC 313 - Physiological Psychology (3)

Additional Requirements:

A major must also complete at least four additional courses. Majors must take one course from the Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience electives and one course from the Cell/Systems Neuroscience electives. From the groupings below, the third elective should be selected from groups A-C and the fourth elective can be from any of the four groups A-D.

Group A: Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience

BIOL 410 - Animal Behavior (3)
PSYC 315 - Foundations of Learning and Memory (3)
PSYC 317 - Sensation & Perception (3)
PSYC 445 - Psychopharmacology (3)
PSYC 447 - Cognitive Neuroscience (3)
PSYC 470 Plastic Brain

Group B: Cell/Systems Neuroscience

APSC 450 - Computational Neuroscience (3)
APSC 490 - Respiratory Neurobiology (3)
BIOL 404 - Molecular Neuroscience (3): optional BIOL 404-08-Molecular Neuroscience Lab (1)
BIOL 447 - Neurophysiology (4)
CHEM 417 - Neurochemistry (3)
KINE 401 - Neurophysiology of Aging (3)
KINE 485 - Cellular Basis of Neuromuscular Physiology (3)

Group C: Research Methods in Neuroscience

NSCI 400 - Research in Neuroscience (3) (May only count as one elective)
PSYC 302 - Experimental Methods (4)
PSYC 411 - Cognition and Thinking (4)
PSYC 413 - Research in Physiological Psychology (4)
PSYC 415 - Research in Animal Cognition (4)
NSCI 496 - Honors in Neuroscience (3)

Group D: Neuroscience-approved Electives

BIOL 415 - General Endocrinology (3)
BIOL 432 - Principles of Animal Physiology (4)
BIOL 433 - Developmental Biology (3)
BIOL 442 - Molecular Genetics (3)
KINE 352 - Nutrition and the Brain (3)
KINE 450 - Cardiovascular Physiology (3)