Elective Courses
In order to provide training both in an area of specialization and in related areas of neuroscience, a student is required to take nine semester hours of Elective Courses from the list below. Since new courses become available each year, the list below is only partial and some courses may be discontinued depending on the situation of the instructor. Selection of Elective Courses should be done in consultation with and approval of the Student Advisory Committee. It is strongly recommended that the elective requirement be satisfied prior to taking the Comprehensive Examination.
Elective Courses (Total of 9 s.h. required): Partial Listing
002:124 Animal Physiology
002:150 Endocrinology
002:170 Bioinformatics
002:195 Topics in Neurobiology: Methods in Neuroscience
002:215 Critical Read Biol
003:110 Phonetics: Theory & Applications
003:111 Basic Acoustics of Sp & Hrng
003:218 Psycholinguistics
003:230 Speech Perception
003:230 Aphasia
003:234 Acquired Cognitive-Communication Disorders
06J:272 Individual Differences in Traits/Abilities
027:160 Motor Control I Neurophysiological Basis
031:163 Abnormal Psychology
031:219 Psychology of Language
031:220 Proseminar in Cognition and Perception
031:226 Visual Perception
031:280 Current Topics in Psychology
031:330 Seminar: Cognitive Psychology
031:333 Seminar: Memory
031:335 Seminar: Cognitive Neuroscience
031:338 Seminar: Advanced Topics in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
031:370 Seminar: Health Psychology
051:123 Bioinformatics Techniques
060:204 Research Skills
060:230 Molecular Basis of Vertebrate Development
061:218 Microscopy of Biomedical Research
071:137 Neurotransmitters
071:182 Neurotransmitters, Receptors & Ion Channels
071:208 G-Proteins/G-Proteins-Coupled Receptors
071:225 Topic Molecular Pharmacology
071:235 Topic in Pain and Analgesia
072:226 Cell Cycle Control
101:277 Mechanisms of Pain Transmission
127:200 Genetics Topics
132:209 Receptors and Signal Transduction
132:240* Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience
132:241 Fundamentals of Behavioral Neuroscience
132:250 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
132:301 Directed Study in Neuroscience
132:365 Seminar: Neuropsychology and Neuroscience ("Morning Meeting")
(Same as 031:365; 064:365)
22S:195 Probability and Stochastic Processes I
142:215 Transcription RNA
142:216 Chromatin & Disease
142:217 Mouse models/cancer
142:220 Mechanism of Cellular Organization
142:221 Subcellular Motility
142:222 Organelle Biogenesis
142:225 Growth Factor Receptor Signaling
142:215 Transcription RNA
156:204** Biostatistics for Biomedical Research
156:205 Practical Bioinformatics
171:161 Introduction to Biostatistics
*Required course for cognitive track students
**Required course for molecular track students
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