Neuroscience
Core and Elective Courses within Neuroscience are listed below:
Neuroscience Core courses (2 required)
- NEUROSCI 202-0 Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience*
- NEUROSCI 206-0 Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience*
Neuroscience Electives (choose 4, 2 from Group A and 2 from 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 (this is either a Group A elective or a related course depending on requirement year)
- 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 substitutes for Cognitive Science 210-0 (prior to Fall 2024) but no longer does.
- PSYCH 336-0 Consciousness
- PSYCH 375-0 Advance Seminar in Cognition or Neuroscience (previously NEUROSCI 391-0). Please provide a syllabus for one of these seminars for consideration.
- PSYCH 378-0 Images of Cognition
- PSYCH 385-0 Advanced Seminar (previously NEUROSCI 392-0). Allowed sections include 1. "Psychoneuroimmunology" and 2. "The Emotional Brain".Please provide a syllabus for other sections of these seminars for consideration.
For students entering Northwestern University in Fall 2026, please refer to First Year Focus.
Projected Annual Course Plans: COG_SCI, CSD, PSYCH
Group B electives focus on molecular, cellular, and systems level mechanisms of brain function (choose 2):
- NEUROSCI 303-0 Molecular Mechanisms of Neuropsychopharmacology*
- NEUROSCI 304-0 Developmental Neurobiology*
- NEUROSCI 308-0 Genetics of Human Behavior*
- NEUROSCI 311-0 Biophysical Analysis of Neurons for ISP* (With approval of the director of undergraduate studies, if not used in place of NEUROSCI 202-0).
- NEUROSCI 320-0 Animal Behavior*
- NEUROSCI 324-0 Neurobiology of Biological Clocks and Sleep*
- NEUROSCI 325-0 Neurobiology of Stress, Adversity, and Resilience*
- NEUROSCI 326-0 Neurobiology of Learning and Memory*
- NEUROSCI 340-0 Injury, Regeneration, and Recovery in the Nervous System*
- NEUROSCI 350-0 Advanced Neurophysiology Laboratory*
- NEUROSCI 355-0 Neurogenetics of Behavior Laboratory*
- NEUROSCI 357-0 Neuroanatomy Laboratory*
- NEUROSCI 359-0 Neurotoxicology Laboratory*
- NEUROSCI 360-0 Neuroscience of Brain Disorders*
- NEUROSCI 365-0 Neurobiology of Prediction*
- NEUROSCI 366-0 Brain Function Through the Lens of Computation*
- NEUROSCI 368-0 Big Data in Contemporary Neurobiology* Previously titled, "Contemporary Data Analysis in Neurobiology" NEUROSCI 390-0-32
- NEUROSCI 370-0 Genetic and Circuit Analysis of Motivated Behavior*
- NEUROSCI 371-0 Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis*
- NEUROSCI 377-0 Neurobiology of Sensation and Perception*
- NEUROSCI 390-0 Topics in Neuroscience*
- BIOL_SCI 303-0 Molecular Neurobiology
- BIOL_SCI 307-0 Brain Structure, Function, and Evolution
- ES_APPM 370-1 Introduction to Computational Neuroscience
Projected Annual Course Plans: BIOL_SCI, ES_APPM, NEUROSCI
* Indicates courses for which the Neuroscience major provides pre-registration privileges. Appointments to declare the major.