Neuroscience, BS

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Required Credit Hours:

A minimum of 33 (plus 28 credit hours in prerequisites). Neuroscience majors are required to complete APSC 351 - Cellular Biophysics and Modeling by the end of their junior year. 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 NSCI 300 - Writing in the Neurosciences or NSCI 495 - 496 - Honors in Neuroscience .

Prerequisite Courses:

BIOL 220 - Introduction to Organisms, Ecology, Evolution (3)
BIOL 221 - Introduction to Organisms, Ecology, Evolution Laboratory (1)
BIOL 225 - Introduction to Molecules, Cells, Development (3)
BIOL 226 - Introduction to Molecules, Cells, Development Laboratory (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)
(*Calculus II is a pre- or co-requisite for this course. This course must be completed by the end of junior year.)
BIOL 310 - Molecular Cell Biology (3)
BIOL 345 - Neurobiology (3)
CHEM 307 - Organic Chemistry II for Life Sciences (3) or
CHEM 209 - Organic Chemistry II (3)
CHEM 308 - General Chemistry II for Life Sciences (3) or
CHEM 305 - Inorganic and General Chemistry II (3) or
CHEM 335 - Freshman Honors 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)
BIOL 447 - Neurophysiology (4)
CHEM 417 - Neurochemistry (3)
KINE 485 - Cellular Basis of Neuromuscular Physiology (3)

Group C: Research Methods in Neuroscience

NSCI 400 - Research in Neuroscience (3 Credits)
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)

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)