Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Introductory Neuroscience (Steve Potter)/Course description
Course description
[edit]Welcome to BMED/BIOL 4752, Introductory Neuroscience at Georgia Tech! Despite the word "introductory" in the title, this is not an easy class, but it is fun and students of this course will learn a lot. My philosophy is that real-world assignments are much more meaningful, and will serve you better in the future, than memorizing a lot of facts and details that you can easily look up. All of the homework assignments prepare students for the Big Assignment: writing a Wikipedia article about a neuro topic. There are a lot of homework assignments and a lot of reading, but most students in previous years really enjoyed them, and felt they were well worth the effort. I value in-class discussions and welcome any questions. My motto: "No question is too dumb to ask."
Course Objectives:
- Get introduced to the components of the nervous system and how they functionally interact.
- Appreciate the complexity of higher-order brain functions and begin to understand their biological basis.
- Synthesize new connections, ideas and approaches about neuroscience research, drawing from examples given in lectures, readings and the textbook.
- Independently obtain, report, and share with the Real World (using Wikipedia and other forums), in written and oral form, topical neuroscience information.
- Appreciate neuroscience research in the Real World, and how much we don’t know about the nervous system, and learn to be skeptical of what is claimed.