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Major Requirements

The major requirements in Neuroscience consist of:

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Related coursework in other sciences

Neuroscience Core courses (2 required)

Projected Annual Course Plan: NEUROSCI

Neuroscience Electives (choose 4, 2 each from Group A and Group B)

Group A electives focus on human behavior and the human brain (choose 2):

  • COG SCI 210-0 Language and the Brain
  • CSD 303-0 or PSYCH 327-0 Brain and Cognition 
  • CSD 310-0 Biological Foundations of Speech and Music
  • PSYCH 110-0 Introduction to Psychology
  • PSYCH 228-0 Cognitive Psychology
  • PSYCH 244-0 Developmental Psychology 
  • PSYCH 248-0 Health Psychology
  • PSYCH 324-0 Perception
  • PSYCH 328-0 Brain Damage and the Mind
  • PSYCH 330-0-1 Topics in Neuroscience Brain and Language, this course substituted for Cognitive Science 210 (prior to Fall 2024) but no longer does.
  • PSYCH 391-0 Advanced Seminar in Cognition or Neuroscience  Allowed sections include: 1. Left Brain, Right Brain; 2. Creative Problem Solving; and 3. Language and the Mind. Please provide a syllabus for other sections of these seminars for consideration.
  • PSYCH 392-0 Allowed sections include 1. Psychoneuroimmunology and 2. Emotional Brain. Please provide a syllabus for other sections of these seminars for consideration.

Projected Annual Course Plans: COG_SCI, CSD, PSYCH

Group B electives focus on molecular, cellular, and systems level mechanisms of brain function (choose 2):

Projected Annual Course Plans: NEUROSCI, BIOL_SCI, ES_APPM

Allied Field (choose 4 courses from one of the fields below. Two of which must be a 300-level or above course)

Neuroscience majors who have declared in August 2021 or beyond are required to adhere to the 2021-2022 requirements. As such, students will choose four units within one Allied Field for interdisciplinary study. Two of which must be 300-level or above courses. The choice of using NEUROSCI 399-0-60 as an allied field will only be satisfied if you have 2 units of NEUROSCI 399-0. If this is the case, you would need three units at the 300-level or above courses. Two NEUROSCI 399-0 courses and one additional 300-level or above course.

Laboratory Experience

All Neuroscience majors must gain laboratory experience. There are two ways to do this:

  1. Earn two units of credit from NEUROSCI 398-0 or NEUROSCI 399-0 Research in a relevant field, approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies, which also may substitute for an Allied Field course, or
  2. Earn at least one unit of credit from 200-level or higher laboratory or methods coursework. 

Double Counting

Between Neuroscience and other majors/minors: Neuroscience electives may not be double counted toward another major/minor. Up to two Neuroscience Allied Field courses may be double counted toward another major but not toward a minor in WCAS. All "Related coursework" in Neuroscience may be double counted toward another major/minor. A few WCAS exceptions may be found at this link.

Within the Neuroscience major: A course may not be counted toward both an Allied Field and an elective. However, an approved laboratory course or two credits of 398/399 research in a relevant field, approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies, may be used to fulfill both the laboratory experience requirement as well as serving as one Allied Field course. NEUROSCI 398/399 may not be used as a Group B elective.

* Indicates courses for which the Neuroscience major provides pre-registration privileges.