NEUR 491 - Neuroscience: Literature and Society II

1.5 cr.

This course will examine a number of ways in which neuroscience informs and enhances modern society. Students will read summaries (or view video materials) relating to research areas that have relevance to present and future society. Students will read professionally-written articles and similar video materials intended to educate interested lay readers/viewers. Throughout the course, students will make brief written and visual presentations designed to communicate neuroscience topics to the general public relating to the fields of: 1) medicine, 2) law, and 3) consciousness, free will, and artificial intelligence.