Students may elect to major in neuroscience or to coordinate a major in neuroscience with digital and computational studies, education, or environmental studies. Students pursuing coordinate majors may not normally elect a second major. Bowdoin does not offer a minor in neuroscience.
- Understand and be able to use the scientific method to arrive at conclusions based upon appropriate evidence:
- Hypothesis development
- Experimental design
- Analytical reasoning and quantitative data analysis
- Hypothesis development
- Experimental design
- Analytical reasoning and quantitative data analysis
- Know and understand fundamental concepts (e.g., in biology, psychology, chemistry) that are the underpinnings for the study of the brain and behavior.
- Become familiar with fields related to neuroscience, in particular those that neuroscience seeks to explain and those that provide tools or principles that help explain neural functioning.
- Demonstrate a broad intellectual foundation in neuroscience, including molecular, cellular, cognitive, and behavioral perspectives; and understand how these perspectives are interrelated.
- Become proficient in multiple techniques used in neuroscience research; be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each.