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