Neuroscience

Year 1

This is a three-year course based on a combination of required and optional modules. Each year you will study modules to a total of 120 credits.

There are options to switch to any other course in the Bioscience suite or to a four-year MSci after year one. You can also choose to study abroad during year two.

• Biochemistry (15 credits)

• Chemistry for the Biosciences (15 credits)

• Genetics and Molecular Biology (15 credits)

• Cell Biology and Neuroscience (15 credits)

• Fundamentals of Physiology and Anatomy (30 credits)

• Fundamentals of Pharmacology (15 credits)

• Skills for the Biosciences (15 credits)

Year 2 Required Modules

• Neuroscience (30 credits)

• Neuroscience & the Mind (15 credits)

• Physiology & Pharmacology of the Central Nervous System (15 credits)

• Essentials of Embryology (15 credits)

• Psychology 1 (15 credits)

• Gene Cloning & Expression A (15 credits)

Students also take one of the following optional modules:

• Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience (15 credits)

• Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Mind (15 credits)

You will also have the opportunity to study abroad for your second year at one of our partner universities, which currently include:

• The Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden

• The University of Melbourne, Australia

• National University of Singapore

• The University of California

• The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

You may be required to fulfil additional entry requirements for this option.

Alternatively, you may apply for an extra-mural year, to be taken between the second and third years if selected. Students apply directly to placement providers through a process facilitated by the university. Placements, either in the UK or overseas, may be in a pharmaceutical company, a government research establishment or academic research institute. courses incorporating the extra-mural year are accredited by the Royal Society of Biology.

We review our modules on a regular basis in order to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant courses of study. The optional modules offered may therefore change.

Year 3

In your final year you will choose one of the following pathways:

Neuroscience - Laboratory Research

This pathway features a major neuroscience project within a research laboratory. It can be on a wide range of topics within cells, systems, developmental neuroscience or neurodegeneration.

Neuroscience and Neuropsychology

This pathway features a psychology research project.

Neuroscience - Literature and Practical Topics

This pathway features a literature-based neuroscience project and a shorter laboratory-based module comprising structured experimental sessions.

During year three you can apply to transfer to the four-year MSci Neuroscience, on which you will be required to take a 60 credit research project, a 30 credit project design module, and one of a range of optional 30 credit modules.

Neuroscience - Laboratory Research Pathway

• Laboratory-based Project in Neuroscience (45 credits)

• Principles of Neurobiological Research (15 credits)

Choose one of the following options:

• Developmental Neurobiology (30 credits)

• Perspectives on Pain & Nervous System Disorders (30 credits)

• Imaging the Brain Reading the Mind (15 credits) and Memory Mechanism in Health and Disease (15 credits)

Choose one of the following options:

• Mechanisms of Development (30 credits)

• Cellular and Systems Neuroscience (30 credits)

Neuroscience and Neuropsychology Pathway

• Cognitive Neuropsychology (30 credits)

• Research Methods and Statistics Psychology Project (30 credits)

Choose one of the following options:

• Cellular and Systems Neuroscience (30 credits)

• Memory Mechanisms in Health & Disease (15 credits)

Choose two of the following options:

• Imaging the Brain, Reading the Mind (15 credits)

• Pharmacology of Neurological & Psychiatric Disorders (15 credits)

• Neuroendocrinology (15 credits)

Neuroscience - Literature and Practical Topics Pathway

• Literature based Research Project in the Neurosciences (15 credits)

• and/or Project Design in Neuroscience (30 credits)

Choose a combination of optional modules to bring your total credits for the year to 120 from a range which currently include:

• Cellular and Systems Neuroscience (30 credits)

• Pharmacology of Neurological & Psychiatric Disorders (15 credits)

• Neuroendocrinology (15 credits)

• Behavioural Science (15 credits)

• Developmental Neurobiology (30 credits)

• Cellular Basis of Drug Dependence (30 credits)

• Perspectives on Pain & Nervous System Disorders (30 credits)

• Project Design in Neuroscience (30 credits)

• Experimental Topics in Neuroscience (15 credits)

• Mechanisms of Development (30 credits)

• Memory Mechanisms in Health & Disease (15 credits)

• Imaging the Brain, Reading the Mind (15 credits)

We review our modules on a regular basis in order to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant courses of study. The optional modules offered may therefore change.