17 courses with the subject NS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
NS 100Research Experience in Neuroscience2
This course aims to introduce students to basic processes in Neuroscience/Psychology research and help them become active and engaged members in the Neuroscience/Psychology community. You will participate in a broad Neuroscience/Psychology research project and become familiar with research ethics, laboratory techniques, basic scientific inquiry, the research process, and scientific communication.
NS 300Critical Thinking and Writing in Neuroscience2
This course serves as a means for you to understand and contribute to scholarly work processes in the field of neuroscience/psychology. You will contribute to completion of a neuroscience/psychology project under the leadership of a peer mentor. You will also critically investigate the neuroscience literature surrounding an identified topic and complete a comprehensive written review using appropriate style and format, with a final presentation of that review to your peers.
Analysis of how nervous system activity underlies sensory, perceptual and higher cognitive activities including motivation, memory, language, thought, and mental illness. A laboratory is included. Meets Scientific Discovery Intellectual Perspective requirement (SD).
This course is an exploration of advanced topics in the field of neurobiology, with the focus being the nervous system as the central control and integrating system in animals. It reviews fundamental neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, as well as more specific topics such as sensory systems, neuroendocrinology, and nervous system development and disease. Recent advances published in the field of neurobiology will also be discussed. The lab component will be complementary to material covered during lectures.
BIO 334 or consent of instructor. Cross-Listed: BIO 434
NS 441Neuropharmacology4
Neuropharmacology is an advanced lecture and discussion-based course in which we will focus on mechanisms of drugs in the nervous system. We will apply basic principles of pharmacology to an understanding of brain actions on neurons and neural circuits, and discuss how drugs are used as tools to better understand the nervous system and behavior. Special attention will be given to the biochemical basis of drugs used in treatment of disorders and neuropharmacology of symptoms and altered states. By the end of the course students should also be adept at critically reading and evaluating papers from the primary literature regarding neuropharmacology research.
An opportunity for students to work in a research or applied setting. Regular contact with the Westminster College internship instructor is required. A reading list developed prior to actual internship activities, a journal and a paper integrating the readings, internship experience and other college course work are also required.
Students will conduct a research project and complete a formal research product (most likely a journal style article). This experience is consistent with our prior model of Capstone for Seniors although more focused on collaborative research than has been done in the past.
The research scholars program is for those exceptional students who choose to do a more extensive, three-semester capstone research project in neuroscience. Students eligible for this program must have a 3.5 GPA overall, a 3.5 GPA in neuroscience courses, have taken at least three psychology courses, obtained a letter of reference from a faculty member, and must submit a writing sample to the chair of the psychology department. Students accepted into the program begin their projects in the spring of their junior year and defend a thesis in the spring of their senior year.
Students in the All-College Honors Program register for NS 660, NS 670 , and NS 680 to complete their neuroscience scholarship experience. Students must have a 3.5 GPA in three or more classes in neuroscience to begin.
Students in the All-College Honors Program register for NS 660 , 670, and NS 680 to complete their neuroscience scholarship experience. Students must have a 3.5 GPA in three or more classes in neuroscience to begin.
Students in the All-College Honors Program register for NS 660 , NS 670 , and 680 to complete their neuroscience scholarship experience. Students must have a 3.5 GPA in three or more classes in neuroscience to begin.
Students in the All-College Honors Program register for NS 660 , NS 670 , and NS 680 to complete their neuroscience scholarship experience. Students must have a 3.5 GPA in three or more classes in neuroscience to begin.
