Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences

Multidisciplinary Studies – Neuroscience (BA-BS and minor)

Program Purpose

The Interdisciplinary Studies Neuroscience Minor and the Multidisciplinary Studies Neuroscience Concentration Major are administered by the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences under one Program Director, and referred to collectively as the Neuroscience Program. The overall goal of the Program is to enable ambitious and motivated students to pursue a minor or baccalaureate degrees (BA, BS) that encompass academic and scholarly endeavors in specialized or emerging subfields within the larger umbrella of Neuroscience. The Program fosters multidisciplinary study across various schools and departments as evidenced in each of the curricula. Departing from the traditional focus on individual disciplines, Neuroscience is characterized by collaborative interactions between faculty and students working at many different levels of analysis including anatomy and cell biology, pharmacology, physiology, biomedical engineering, speech communications, and cognitive and behavioral neuroscience.


Learning Outcomes

Neuroscience - Advanced Knowledge

Students in their senior year will exhibit knowledge they have accumulated over the extent of their studies in five advanced content areas of neuroscience:

  1. Cell and molecular biology
  2. Neuroanatomy
  3. Developmental neurobiology
  4. Neurochemistry and pharmacology
  5. Neural basis of higher-order cognition.

Neuroscience - General Knowledge

Students will exhibit general knowledge of neuroscience in the key content areas of:

  1. Gross neuroanatomy and function
  2. Cell anatomy, cell communication, and cell function
  3. Psychopharmacology
  4. Learning and memory
  5. Human psychiatric states/disorders
  6. Methods in neuroscience research.

Neuroscience - Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking

Students demonstrate competency in designing experiments, analyzing data, and interpreting results.