Course Description
Neuroscience is a rapidly advancing and multi-faceted discipline. Graduate students will focus their studies on recent literature and contemporary techniques to advance their dissertation research under the guidance of graduate faculty.
Athena Title
Advanced Topics Neuroscience
Non-Traditional Format
Weekly review between instructor and student to develop and produce theories and experiments. Weekly evaluation of results and evaluation of findings and/or research.
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall, spring and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will know how to review and evaluate current literature.
- Students will know how to discuss research findings from literature.
- Students will know how to justify and plan new experiments.
- Students will know how to hypothesize outcomes from planned experiments.
- Students will know how to execute experiments using contemporary research techniques.
- Students will know how to justify expected experimental results.
- Students will know how to evaluate research findings.
- Students will know how to explain and defend research conclusions based on understanding of current literature.
Topical Outline
- Review and evaluate current literature
- Discuss research findings from literature
- Justify and plan new experiments
- Hypothesize outcomes from planned experiments
- Execute experiments using contemporary research techniques
- Justify expected experimental results
- Evaluate research findings
- Explain and defend research conclusions based on understanding of current literature
