School of Science and Engineering: Neuroscience
2008-2009 Academic Year
667
Office:
3039 Percival Stern Hall
Phone:
(504) 862-3305 or (504) 314-7548 or (504) 862-3307
Fax:
(504) 862-8744
Website:
www.tulane.edu/~neurosci/neurosci.html
Email:
brain@tulane.edu or bwee@tulane.edu
Program Administrators
Gary Dohanich, Psychology
Jeffrey Tasker, Cell and Molecular Biology
Beth Wee, Neuroscience, Ph.D., Michigan State University
Program Faculty
David Corey, Psychology
Peter Cserjesi, Cell and Molecular Biology
Edward Golob, Psychology
Harry Howard, Linguistics
Fiona Inglis, Cell and Molecular Biology
Laura Schrader, Cell and Molecular Biology
Bret Smith, Cell and Molecular Biology
A major in Neuroscience allows a student to pursue an interdepartmental
curriculum that focuses on the role of the nervous system in regulating
physiological and behavioral functions. Neuroscience combines many traditional
fields of study including Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Anatomy, and
Physiology. The field of Neuroscience encompasses a broad domain that ranges
from the cellular and molecular control of brain cells to the regulation of
responses in whole organisms.
The student majoring in Neuroscience fulfills the standard requirements of a
premedical curriculum, which is recommended or required for admission to
graduate study in Neuroscience or related graduate programs. This curriculum
also enables the student to pursue medical training, possibly specializing in an
area related to Neuroscience.
A Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience requires nine credits of core courses, 9
credits of elective courses, three credits of laboratory courses, and 30 credits of
co-requisite courses in biology, psychology, chemistry, and physics totaling 51
credits. At least six of the elective lecture credits and one of the laboratory credits
must be taken from the list of Neuroscience courses.
A student majoring in Neuroscience is strongly encouraged to pursue research in
laboratories on the Main Campus or at the Health Sciences Center as an