400. Neuroscience Seminar
3 hours   Most recent syllabus
Neuroscience seminars are capstone courses for Neuroscience majors designed to help students integrate and apply their knowledge of neuroscience as well as help them consolidate their research, analysis, writing, and presentation skills. These courses will focus on the analysis and discussion of the original research literature in a selected area of neuroscience. Prerequisite: Neuroscience major and senior status or consent of the instructor. Enrollment Limit: 14.

First Semester Theme: Neuroscience of Thought
Neuroscience of Thought. Topics may include attention, working memory, reward, perception, consciousness and goal directed behavior as well as breakdowns in thought processes such as schizophrenia and ADHD. A unifying principle used to tie these topics together will be the need for decision-making mechanisms to exist in the brain.
Mr. Loose

Second Semester Theme: Evolution of Brain and Behavior.
Topics may include evolutionary aspects of brain size, sensory specializations, language, altruism, consciousness, emotions, theory of mind, hominid social interactions, morality and culture.
Mr. Braford