NEUR 490 - Neuroscience: Literature and Society I

1.5 cr.

This course overviews the history of neuroscience from fossil records to the present time. Students will learn, or be reintroduced, to the major contributors to the field with a particular emphasis on Nobel Prize winners. Students will explore the subareas of neuroscience that have the greatest relevance to our society in the present and foreseeable future. The latter topics will serve as the foundation of NEUR 491 .  (Offered in Fall only)