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Dr. Lou DeFelice, DGS, Neuroscience Director of Graduate Studies
Dr. Elaine Sanders-Bush, Director of Neuroscience Graduate Program
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Integrative/Cognitive Neuroscience track

TYPICAL COURSE SCHEDULE:

1st year Fall Semester
Course Number
Course Title
Hours
NURO 325 Neuroscience Foundations (1 hr)
NURO 302 Neuroscience Lab Rotations (0-5 hrs)
PSY 310P Statistical Inference (3 hrs)
NURO 330 or NURO 340 Cognitive Neuroscience or Systems Neuroscience (3-4 hrs)
NURO 320 Research Forum (1 hr)
  Neuroscience Graduate Seminar Series  
Total semester hours
 (12 hrs)

1st year Spring Semester
Course Number
Course Title
Hours
NURO 325 Neuroscience Foundations (1 hr)
NURO 302 Neuroscience Lab Rotations (0-5 hrs)
PSY 234 Lab in Behavioral Neuroscience (4 hrs)
NURO 320 Research Forum (1 hr)
  Course Electives (optional)  
  Neuroscience Graduate Seminar Series  
  Select Thesis Advisor  
Total semester hours
 (12 hrs)

1st year Summer Semester
Course Number
Course Title
Hours
NURO 399 Research Hours (12 hrs)
  Course Electives (optional)  
Total semester hours
 (12 hrs)

2nd year Fall Semester
Course Number
Course Title
Hours
NURO 323 or PSY 274 Medical Neuroanatomy: The Nervous System or Psychology Neuroanatomy (4 hrs) or (3 hrs)
NURO 399 Research Hours (Variable)
NURO 330 or NURO 340 Cognitive Neuroscience or Systems Neuroscience (3-4 hrs)
NURO 320 Research Forum  
  Neuroscience Graduate Seminar Series  
Total semester hours
 (12 hrs)

2nd year Spring Semester
Course Number
Course Title
Hours
NURO 320 Research Forum  
NURO 345 or PSY 234 Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience or Laboratory in Behavioral Neuroscience (4 hrs)
NURO 399 Research Hours (Variable)
  Course Electives (optional)  
  Neuroscience Graduate Seminar Series  
Total semester hours
 (12 hrs)

2nd year Summer Semester
Course Number
Course Title
Hours
NURO 399 Research Hours  
  Course Electives (optional)  
  Qualifying Examination (written)  
Total semester hours
  

3rd year Fall Semester
Course Number
Course Title
Hours
NURO 399 Research Hours  
Optional, if needed Course Electives  
  Neuroscience Graduate Seminar Series  
  Qualifying Examination, Phase I (oral)  
  Formation of Dissertation Committee  

3rd year Spring Semester
Course Number
Course Title
Hours
NURO 399 Research Hours  
Optional, if needed Course Electives  
  Neuroscience Graduate Seminar Series  
  Qualifying Examination, Phase II (oral)  
  Dissertation Thesis Proposal Meeting  

Fourth and Fifth years: Successful completion of Teaching Apprenticeship, Research Forum; thesis research and defense of thesis.

NOTE: Required attendance for ALL Vanderbilt Neuroscience Graduate Students - Neuroscience Graduate Program Seminar Series. No registration for this series.

Electives
Electives may be not be offered every year

NURO 324 Excitable Membrane Properties in Nerves

NURO 329 Molecular Basis of Psychotropic Drugs

NURO 335 Special Topics in Neuroscience

NURO 336 Advanced Neuroanatomy

NURO 340 Systems Neuroscience

NURO 345 Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

NURO 346 Molecular Neurobiology

NURO 347 The Visual System

NURO 348 Contemporary Issues in Behavioral Neuroscience

NURO 350 Independent Study

NURO 355 Integrative Neuroscience

NURO 356 Molecular Neural Development

NURO 366 Molecular Basis of Neural Diseases

BCHM 336 Biochemical Toxicology

BIOL 230 Biological Clocks

MBIO 210 Principles of Genetics

MBIO 255 Cell Physiology

MBIO 340 Developmental Biology

BME 312 Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation

CBIO 352 Current Topics in Neurochemistry and Psychopharmacology

EECS 350 Neural Networks

EECS 357 Advanced Image Processing

EECS 358 Computer Vision

M P&B 327 Molecular Neuroendocrinology

MP&B 330 Human Physiology & Molecular Medicine

MP&B 332 Regulation of Gene Transcription

M P&B 340 Human Genetics

PATH 327 Pathology and Pathogenesis of Neurological Diseases

PHAR 320 Molecular Targets & Mechanisms

PHAR 324 Receptor Theory, Cell-Surface Receptors

PSY 234 Laboratory in Behavioral Neuroscience

PSY 269a Developmental Neuroscience

PSY 304b Quantitative Methods and Experimental Design

PSY 309 Structural Equation Modeling

PSY 310 Statistical Inference

PSY 344 Neuroimaging