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Neuroscience (BS)

Bachelor of Science Degree

General Education

I. Communication (9 hours)

Rhetoric and Composition

  

ENGL 1101*

            

Rhetoric and Composition

3
                     
Literature and Composition 
ENGL 1102*             Literature and Composition 3

Communication 

                

Choose course from approved list

3

II. Humanities and Fine Arts (15 hours)

Modern Languages

                

Choose sequence from approved list

6
                     

English Literature

  

 

             Choose one 2000-level English Literature course
(except for ENGL 2225 and ENGL 2226 which

3
                   meet the General Education Ethics requirement, below)  
                     

Philosophy and Religion

                 Choose one PHIL or RELG course at the
1000-2000 level

3
                     

Fine Arts

  

 

            

Choose course from approved list 

 3

III. History and Social Sciences (9 hours)

World History

  

 

            

Choose course from approved list

3

Government

  

 

            

Choose course from approved list

3
                     
Social Science   PSYC 1101             General Psychology 3

IV. Mathematics and Natural Sciences (11 hours)
                     
Mathematics    MATH 1300*             Elementary Statistics 3
                     
Natural Science    BIOL 1101             General Biology I 3
    BIOL 1101L              General Biology I Lab 1
    BIOL 1102              General Biology II 3
    BIOL 1102L              General Biology II Lab 1

V. Ethics (3 hours)
                     
Ethics                  Choose course from approved list 3
                     

VI. Institutional Requirement (1 hour)

First-Year Experience

 

*Grade of C or higher required.

  

PDMT 1101

            

Introduction to University Life and
the Liberal Arts Tradition

 

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Total Credit Hours:48-49

Students who enter with fewer than 24 semester credit hours must satisfy the institutional requirement.

Neuroscience Major

BIOL 1101General Biology I

3
BIOL 1101LGeneral Biology I Lab

1
BIOL 1102General Biology II

3
BIOL 1102LGeneral Biology II Lab

1
CHEM 1101General Chemistry I

3
CHEM 1101LGeneral Chemistry I Lab

1
CHEM 1102General Chemistry II

3
CHEM 1102LGeneral Chemistry II Lab

1
NRSC 4300Brain and Behavior

3
NRSC 4400Cellular Neuroscience

3
NRSC 4500Cognitive Neuroscience

3
PSYC 2202Introduction to Research Methods

3
PSYC 3360Sensation and Perception

3
PSYC 4410Cognitive Psychology

3
PSYC 4494Advanced Research Methods and Statistics

3
PSYC 4495Advanced Experimental Psychology (Senior Seminar)

3
Total Credit Hours:40

General Electives

General Electives

19
Total Credit Hours:19

Neuroscience Electives

Students must complete a minimum of 15 hours of electives from the following list:
BIOL 2100Human Anatomy and Physiology I

3
BIOL 2100LHuman Anatomy and Physiology I Lab

1
BIOL 2110Human Anatomy and Physiology II

3
BIOL 2110LHuman Anatomy and Physiology II Lab

1
BIOL 2240Genetics

4
BIOL 3650Comparative Physiology

3
BIOL 3700Animal Behavior

3
NASC 4210Biochemistry

3
NRSC 2900Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience

3
PSYC 2290Human Growth and Development

3
PSYC 3303Social Psychology

3
PSYC 3380Psychology of Learning

3
PSYC 3381Theories of Personality

3
PSYC 4401History and Systems

3
PSYC 4415Abnormal Psychology

3
Total Credit Hours:15

Total Credit Hours: 122-123