Carnegie Mellon University

B.S. in Biological Sciences/Neuroscience Track Course Requirements

The B.S. in Biological Sciences/Neuroscience Track provides an option for those Biological Sciences majors who are interested in an intensive curricular focus in neuroscience. The requirements of the Track are the same as those listed for the B.S. in Biological Sciences with the following changes to the biological sciences elective requirements:

Required Courses

03-362 Cellular Neuroscience 9
03-363 Systems Neuroscience 9
03-765 Advanced Neural Correlates of Learning and Memory 12

Plus three of the following electives:

03-133 Neurobiology of Disease 9
03-350 Developmental Biology 9
03-360/02-319 Genomics and Epigenetics of the Brain 9
03-366 Neuropharmacology: Drugs, Brain, and Behavior 9
03-534 Biological Imaging and Fluorescence Spectroscopy 9
15-385 Introduction to Computer Vision 6
15-386 Neural Computation 9
42-202 Physiology 9
85-211 Cognitive Psychology 9
85-213 Human Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence 9
85-219 Biological Foundation of Behavior 9