Electives

• NSB majors are required to choose three elective courses, at least one of which is a 3000-level seminar.

• Seminars are typically worth 4 points while lectures are worth 3 points. Seminars typically meet just once per week, but involve more work outside of class, reading primary literature, writing in-depth papers on a focused topic, and/or presenting research to your peers.

• Each of the 3000-level seminars offered by the NSB department can be selected as elective. Additional choices - from the NSB department or other departments - are listed below. The elective courses are grouped by content – cognitive/behavioral, computational, or molecular. They are grouped this way only to guide your interest. Always consult with the Course Catalogue or Directory of Classes for current information.

Cognitive/Behavioral

Lectures

NSBV BC2154 Hormones and Behavior
NSBV BC2005 Flavor Perception and the Human Diet
NSBV BC2008 Adaptive or Arrested Development of the Adolescent Brain
NSBV BC3405 Neuroscience of Trauma
NSBV BC2006 Disorders of the Mind and the Brain
PSYC BC2114 Cognitive Psychology
PSYC BC2129 Developmental Psychology
PSYC BC2163 Human Learning and Memory
PSYC BC2110 Perception
PSYC BC2107 Psychology of Learning
PSYC BC2177 Psychology of Drug Use and Abuse (Note: either PSYC BC2177 or PSYC UN2460 (Drugs and Behavior) can be taken for credit because of content overlap)
PSYC BC3361 Atypical Development in Cognition, Language, and Behavior
PSYC UN2220 Memory and Stress
PSYC UN2235 Thinking and Decision Making
PSYC UN2430 Cognitive Neuroscience
PSYC UN2435 Social Neuroscience
PSYC UN2250 Evolution of Cognition
PSYC UN2460 Drugs and Behavior (Note: either PSYC UN2460 or PSYC BC2177 (Psychology of Drug Use and Abuse) can be taken for credit because of content overlap)
PSYC UN2470 Fundamentals of Neuropsychology
PSYC UN2280 Introduction to Developmental Psychology
PSYC UN2481 Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
BIOL BC2280 Animal Behavior

Seminars

NSBV BC3392 Psychobiology of Stress
NSVB BC3376 Psychobiology of Infant Development
NSBV BC3377 Adolescent Neurobehavioral Development
NSBV BC3398 Psychobiology of Sleep
NSBV BC3387 Topics in Neuroethics
NSBV BC3385 Neuroethology
NSBV BC3384 Rhythms of the Brain
NSBV BC3394 Neurobiology of Social Behavior
NSBV BC3381 Visual Neuroscience: From the eyeball to the mind's eye
NSBV BC3389 Hallucinations, illusions, Dreaming, and Immagination
PSYC BC3179 Cephalopod Cognition
PSYC BC3372 Comparative Cognition
PSYC BC3369 Language Development
PSYC BC3394 Metacognition
PSYC UN3445 Brain and Memory
PSYC UN3450 Evolution intelligence & consciousness
PSYC GU4222 Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging
PSYC GU4415 Methods/Issues in Cognitive Neuroscience
PSYC GU4435 Non-mnemonic Function of Memory Systems
PSYC GU4498 Behavioral Epigenetics
PSYC GU4225 Consciousness and Attention
PSYC GU4440 Topics in Neurobiology & Behavior (Section 1; Prof. Rae Silver)
PSYC GU4491 The Parental Brain
PSYC UN3496 Neuroscience and Society
PSYC S3525 Clinical Neurospsychology
BIOL UN3019 Brain Evolution
PHIL UN3654 Computational Models of Mind

Computational

Lectures

NSBV BC2004 Fundamentals in Computational Neuroscience Models
BIOL BC2490 Coding in Biology
BIOL BC2500 Matlab for Scientists
STEM BC2223 Programming in the Behavioral Sciences
COMS W4701 Artificial Intelligence
COMS W3157 Advanced Programming
COMS W3261 Computer Science Theory
COMS W3203 Discrete Mathematics: Introduction to Combinatorics and Graph Theory
COMS W4560 Introduction to Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine
COMS W3210 Scientific Computation
BMEN E4540 Bioelectrochemistry
BMEN E4340 Biomechanics of Cells
BMEN E4894 Biomedical Imaging
BMEN E6003 Computational Modeling of Physiological Systems
BMEN E4737 Computer Control of Medical Instrumentation
BMEN E4580 Fundamentals of Nanobioscience and Nanobiotechnology
BMEE E4030 Neural Control Engineering
BMEE E6030 Neural Modeling and Neuroengineering
BMEN E4430 Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
BMEN E4520 Synthetic Biology: Principles of Genetic Circuits
BMEN E4150 The Cell as a Machine
ECBM E4090 Brain-computer Interfaces Laboratory
EEBM E6020 Methods of Computational Neuroscience
CSEE W4119 Computer Networks
APMA E2101 Introduction to Applied Mathematics

Seminars

NSBV BC3386 The Neural Code
COMS E6737 Biometrics
COMS W4771 Computational Genomics
COMS BC3162 Developing Accessible User Interfaces
COMS W3102 Development Technologies
COMS E6731 Humanoid Robots
COMS W3210 Scientific Computation
BMEE E4740 Bioinstrumentation
BMEB W4020 Computational Neuroscience: Circuits in the Brain
BMEN E4840 Functional Imaging for the Brain
ECBM E4070 Computing with Brain Circuits of Model Organisms
ECBM E4040 Neural Networks and Deep Learning
EEBM E6090 Topics in Computational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering
ECBM E6070 Topics in Neuroscience & Deep Learning

Molecular

Lectures

NSBV BC2003 Neuroendocrinology of Stress
BIOL BC3310 Cell Biology
BIOL BC3352 Development
BIOL BC3302 Molecular Biology
BIOL BC2100 Molecular & Mendelian Genetics
BIOL BC3360 Physiology
CHEM BC3282 Biochemistry I
CHEM BC3283 Biochemistry II
BIOL UN3025 Neurogenetics
BIOC UN3300 Biochemistry
CHEM BC3230 Organic Chemistry
GU4501 Biochemistry 1: Leveraging Structure and Metabolism to Design Therapeutics for Cancer, Neurodegeneration, and COVID-19

Seminars

NSBV BC3105 Neuroimmunology
NSBV BC3397 Neural Modulation
BIOL BC3304 Topics in Molecular Genetics
BIOL GU4290 Biological Microscopy
CHEM BC3284 Current Topics in Biochemistry
CHEM GU12150 Chemistry for the Brain
PSYC GU4498 Behavioral Epigenetics
PSYC GU4482 Neural Plasticity