Neuroscience Major Requirements

Requirements for the major in Neuroscience

The requirements listed below reflect Mount Union’s new curriculum for the 2012-2013 Academic Year.  For information regarding major or minor requirements for current students, please refer to the University Catalogue of your entering year.

Required Courses

• The Psychological Sciences
• Professional Development in Psychology
• Research Methods and Data Analysis I
• Research Methods and Data Analysis II
• Neuroscience: The Brain
• Neuroscience: Behavior and Psychiatric Disorders
• Senior Research I
• Senior Research II

Required Extra-Departmental Courses

• The Unity of Life
• Concepts in Chemistry

Any One of the following basic courses

• Learning and Conditioning
• Sensation and Perception
• Cognitive Psychology
• Animal Cognition 

Any One of the following applied courses

• Health Psychology
• Introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
• Drugs and Behavior

Requirements for the Minor in Neuroscience

Any one of the following introductory courses

• The Psychological Sciences
• The Unity of Life
• Concepts in Chemistry

Required Neuroscience Courses

• Neuroscience: The Brain
• Neuroscience: Behavior and Psychiatric Disorders

Any one of the following courses

• Learning and Conditioning
• Sensation and Perception
• Cognitive Psychology
• Health Psychology
• Drugs and Behavior
• Animal Cognition