[FUN_Mail] What electives are included in your Neuroscience Program - responses needed asap
Jan Thornton
jan.thornton at oberlin.edu
Mon Mar 6 14:32:42 EST 2017
Judith:
At Oberlin College we have a Neuroscience Department so are able to
offer an introductory neuro course as well as upper level courses in
Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology, Neuroendocrinology, Cognitive
Neuroscience, Neurotoxicology, Sensory Neuroscience, Neuropharmacology,
and Behavioral Neuroscience. We have also sometimes offered
Developmental Neuroscience and Neuroimmunology. We also have senior
seminars that may be Neurobiology of Disease or other topics. The only
elective outside the department that we accept as an upper level neuro
class is Abnormal Psychology (which is taught with a strong neuro
perspective).
We don't have electives from other departments. However, we require all
students to take some cognates: Introductory Biology, Introductory
Chemisty, and Molecular Biology or Organic Chemistry.
If we had courses in Nerve Cell Mechanisms and Behavior, Neurobiology of
Disease, Animal Behavior, Endocrinology, Behavioral Endocrinology, and
perhaps Sex, Evolution and Biology we might let one of them count as an
elective. The decision would be made after the department faculty
reviewed the syllabus to determine if it had a strong neuro component.
Jan Thornton
On 3/4/2017 11:42 AM, Judith Ogilvie wrote:
> Hi all -
> We are trying to update our list of neuroscience electives for our
> interdisciplinary program. The curriculum committee is requesting
> clarification about why we have selected these specific courses and
> excluded others. The original list of electives was based on what was
> offered by other programs. Since they have asked for a response from
> me by this *_Wed night 3/6_ *I'm hoping you all can help save me the
> time of searching scores of web pages. Right now we are just looking
> at the biology electives.
>
> Below is the list that includes (a) courses already approved, (b)
> courses we would like to add, and (c) courses that the committee has
> suggested.
>
> If you have a neuroscience degree program, please let me know which
> ones you include as electives in your program and which ones are
> available at your institution but not included as electives, and why not.
>
>
> BIOL 3010 Evolution 3
>
> BIOL 3030 Principles of
> Genetics 3
>
> /BIOL 3060 Cell Structure & Function Laboratory 1/
> /BIOL 3100 Experiments in Genetics
> Lab 1/
> BIOL 3280 Ethnobotony 3
>
> BIOL 3400 General
> Ecology 3
>
> /BIOL 3420 Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates 5/
>
> /BIOL 3470 General Physiology
> Laboratory 2/
>
> BIOL 3480 Exercise
> Physiology 3
>
> BIOL 4010 Sex, Evolution, and
> Behavior 3
>
> BIOL 4030 Introduction to
> Genomics 3
> /BIOL 4050 Molecular Technique
> Laboratory 2/
> BIOL 4070 Advanced Biological
> Chemistry 3
> BIOL 4080 Advanced Cell
> Biology 3
> BIOL 4150 Nerve Cell Mechanisms in Behavior 3
>
> BIOL 4250 Neurobiology of
> Disease 3
>
> BIOL 4360 Animal
> Behavior 3
>
> /BIOL 4370 Animal Behavior Lab /1
>
> BIOL 4410 Comparative Animal Physiology 3
>
> /BIOL 4440 Vertebrate Histology: Structure and /
>
> /Function of Tissues 4/
> BIOL 4500 Introductory
> Endocrinology 3
> BIOL 4510 Behavioral
> Endocrinology 3
> BIOL 4540 Human Cellular
> Physiology I 3
> BIOL 4600 Developmental
> Biology 3
>
> BIOL /4610/ /Developmental Biology
> Lab 2/
> BIOL 4630 Foundations of
> Immunobiology 3
> BIOL 4700 Molecular Biology 3
>
> **
>
> I am working to educate the curriculum committee about Neuroscience -
> I was asked what Molecular Biology has to do with Neuroscience - so
> any other comments are welcome and would be greatly appreciated. How
> have you made decisions about which electives to include? Do you look
> at learning objectives? Are there any courses that someone has
> requested be added but were decided to be not appropriate for the
> major and, if so, why? Some have suggested including all biology
> courses, including Plants and Fungi. What criteria would you use to
> include or exclude a course as a neuro elective?
>
> Thanks,
> -Judy Ogilvie
>
> ****************************************************
> Judith Mosinger Ogilvie, Ph.D., FARVO
> Associate Professor of Biology
> Co-Director, Neuroscience Program
> Department of Biology
> Saint Louis University
> 3507 Laclede Ave.
> St. Louis, MO 63103
> email: ogilviej at slu.edu <mailto:ogilviej at slu.edu>
> Phone: 314-977-3965
> Fax: 314-977-3658
> *****************************************************
>
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