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Neuroscience
As a neuroscience student, you’ll combine fundamental principles of psychology, biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics to understand interactions between the human nervous system and behavior.
  • Be a brain mechanic when you help faculty research the brain mechanisms involved in drug abuse, learning disabilities, and recovery from brain damage.
  • Get lab experience in the areas of biology, chemistry, physics and psychology.
  • Prepare for medical or dental school with the help of the pre-health professions program
  • Join the active Psi Chi Psychology Honor Society or the Society for Neuroscience and participate in speaker programs, service projects and field trips.
 
The Neuroscience program includes courses like:
FrPrinciples of Life Sciences I and II
General Chemistry I and II
Principles of Behavior I and II
SoCellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology
Organic Chemistry I and II
Organic Quantitative Analysis
Physiological Psychology
General Physics I and II
JrMicrobiology
Genetics
Neuropsychology
Abnormal Psychology
SrGeneral Animal Physiology
Biochemistry I and II
Fundamentals of Neuroscience
Psychopharmacology
Independent Studies

 
Most neuroscience graduates enter medical and dental school, while others work in research labs at medical schools, pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies. Graduates also pursue advanced degrees in neuroscience, biology, chemistry or psychology.
 

Neuroscience program website
Neuroscience in the Undergraduate Studies Bulletin

 

 

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