Program Overview
Our Neuroscience curriculum was built with support of four key members of the National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative. The NNCI is a collaboration between educators and neuroscientists that seeks to make core concepts in neuroscience available to a broader audience. To accomplish this, they have developed engaging and interactive exercises for teaching in the classroom through a peer-review process. Their overarching aim is to create, pilot, and disseminate a comprehensive set of shared resources in the field of neuroscience.
Thanks to the help of our academic contributors, we have been able to layer a significant amount of NNCI content into a more traditional undergraduate neuroscience curriculum, providing students with a much deeper understanding of the brain. This is especially true of the fourth neuroscience course, Clinical Neuropathology, which is based heavily on the NNCI Quarantine Curriculum, adapted to an undergraduate audience. As is typical for neuroscience, this program places a strong emphasis on biology and psychology coursework in addition to focused neuroscience courses. This program covers some - but not all - premedical requirements. Students who wish to go to medical school must also take one year of physics, one year of organic chemistry, calculus, and select Biochemistry I as one of their electives, for a total of 20 additional credit hours.
Learning outcomes:
- Be able to explain a wide range of neurological phenomena including behavior, the senses, movement, emotions and a range of disorders.
- Be able to combine understanding from psychology, biology, and neuroscience to explain phenomenon of cognition.
- Be able to describe both historical and modern approaches to neuroscience and psychiatry.
While many neuroscience-related careers require further education, some entry-level positions include:
Clinical Researcher - $68,000/year
Medical Writer - $86,000/year
Science Curriculum Developer - $80,000/year
