Learning Outcomes
The overall goal of the Neuroscience minor is to prepare students to critically think about and apply the neurosciences at the level of individual genes, cells, organs, neural circuits and animal/human behavior and; importantly, how these processes can become dysfunctional and give rise to neurological and neuropsychiatric disease. Students will be able to coalesce information across a wide range of basic sciences and disciplines applying them to a clinical and translational understanding of the brain. Additionally, a student minoring in neuroscience will develop insights into how the brain controls behavior, how neurons are capable of encoding and processing vast amounts of data, and identifying the current challenges in understanding how the brain functions in health and disease.
