• Overview

• 2005-2006 Academic Calendar (also available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file)

• Curricular Requirements for Students Matriculating in Fall 2005

• Course Listings

Year 1

• Term I

  • Biochemistry (BBSC 6401)

  • Cell Biology (BBSC 6402)

  • Frontiers of Science Seminar (BBSC 6195)

  • Academic Success Skills and Ethics (BBSC 6101)

  • Laboratory Rotation (BBSC 6301) [Optional – 1^st and/or 2^nd 8 wks}

• Term II

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics (BBSC 6403)

  • Frontiers of Science Seminar (BBSC 6195)

  • Laboratory Rotation (BBSC 6301) [1^st and/or 2^nd 8 wks]

  • Excitability and Synaptic Transmission (BBSC 6107) [1st 8 weeks]

  • Principles of  Drug Action, Pharmacokinetics, and Biotransformation (BBSC 6208) [1^st 8 weeks]

• Term III

  • Laboratory Rotation (BBSC 6301) [1^st and/or 2^nd 8 wks]

  • Ethics of Scientific Research (MEHU 6101) (3-day course)

  • Introduction to Biostatistics & Experimental Design in Basic Sciences (BBSC 6122) [1^st8 weeks]

  • Seminar (NEUR 6195)

  • Principles of CNS Sensory-Motor Integration (BBSC 6214) [2nd 8 weeks]

  • Elective

    • ¹ Biochemical and Molecular Neuroscience (NEUR 6202) [last 10 wks]

Year 2

• Term I

  • Systems Neuroscience (NEUR 6403) 

  • Laboratory Rotation (NEUR 6042)

  • Seminar (NEUR 6195)

  • Electives

    • ¹ Advanced Electrophysiology - Potentials and Channel Physiology (NEUR 6203) [1st 8 weeks]

    • ¹ Advanced Topics in Neuropharmacology (PHTO 6223) [last 8 weeks]

• Term II

  • Behavioral Neuroscience (NEUR 6325)

  • Research (NEUR 6097)

    • OR  Laboratory Rotation (NEUR 6042)

  • Seminar (NEUR 6195)

  • Electives: if requirement for two is not already met, or as needed to strengthen areas of weakness and to prove background for research skills

• Term III

  • Qualifying Exam (beginning of term)

    • Seminar (NEUR 6195)

    • Laboratory Rotation (NEUR 6042 or Research (NEUR 6097)

¹Required to take any two of these.

Later Years

• Seminar (NEUR 6195) AND

• Research (NEUR 6097) each term until admission to candidacy, which must occur before term III of the 3rd year

• Dissertation (NEUR 6099) each term after admission to candidacy

Electives

• NEUR 6103 - Spinal Cord Injury: A Course in Critical Reading

• NEUR 6121 – Proteomics in Neuroscience

• NEUR 6220 - Teaching in Neuroscience [last 9 weeks, Term II - 2nd or 3rd year]

• NEUR 6201 - History of Neuroscience

• NEUR 6503 - Neurosciences and Human Behavior (NHB) [last 9 weeks, Term II - 2nd year]

• NEUX 6000 - Special Topics

Offered by other graduate programs:

• CELL 6102             Signal Response to Injury

• CELL 6105             Molecular Biology Lab

• CPMB 6105           Biophysics of Ion Channels

• CPMB 6219           Electrophysiological Techniques

• CPMB 6232           Synaptic Physiology

• CPMB 6234           Neural Membrane Repair

• HBCG 6208            Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics

• PHTO 6205            Central Nervous System Pharmacology

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