Declared Neuroscience majors can choose from these upper-level courses, considering their focus area, to complete their degree. Lower-level neuroscience courses may not be required for the major, and are not listed on this page. 

Please check the BS requirements page to get a full list of required or optional courses, or consult the online course catalogue for complete course information. Additional course registration information can be found on the Student Information System website.  

Neuroscience Core Courses (Required of All Majors)

Core courses generally run the same times every semester, so they are not included in the table below.

• 050.203 Neuroscience: Cognitive (formerly 080.203, Cognitive Neuroscience), Bonner, Spring
• 080.305 Neuroscience: Cellular and Systems I (formerly Nervous System I), Zhao/Fetsch/Ross, Fall
• 080.306 Neuroscience: Cellular and Systems II (formerly Nervous System II) Zhao/Fetsch/Ross, Spring
• 080.250 Neuroscience Lab, Trageser/Sterbing-D’Angelo/Ross, Fall and Spring

Please note that the list of upper levels and their POS tag may change each semester.

Focus Areas: Systems (ST), Cellular and Molecular (CM), Cognitive (CG), Computational (CP)

Spring 2023

Course #	Concentration	Course name	Professor	Meeting Times	Limits
AS.020.303	CM	Genetics	Fisher/Gordus	TTh12:00-1:15	460
AS.050.326	CG/CP	Foundations of Cognitive Science (writing intensive)	Smolensky	TTh 1:30-2:45	15
AS.050.337	CG/CP	Reading the Mind: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision	Li	TTh 9-10:15	19
AS.050.339	CG	Cognitive Development	Yamolinskaya	TTh 10:30-11:45	19
AS.080.304	CM/ST/CG	Neuroscience of Learning and Memory	Bakker	TTh 4:30-5:45	45
AS.080.321	CP	Computational Neuroscience	Trageser	TTh 12:00-1:15	60
AS.080.326	ST/CM	Neurobiology and Diseases of the Peripheral Nervous System	Farah	TTh 10:30-11:45	44
AS.080.328	CG/ST	Behavioral Neuroscience Lab	Smith	MW 10:30-11:45; TTh 10:30-11:45	24 (2 sections of 12)
AS.080.333	ST/CM	Neuroimmunology: Writing About the Nervous System (writing intensive)	Hendry	MW 4:30-5:45	20
AS.080.337	CM	Drug Discovery Research for Neurological Disorders	Tsukamoto	MTh 6pm-7:15pm	18
AS.080.339	CG/ST	Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging (writing intensive)	Ross	TTh 12:00-1:15	20
AS.080.345	ST/CM	Great Discoveries in Neuroscience	Baraban	TTh 3-4:15	60
AS.200.304	CG/ST	Neuroscience of Decision Making	Stuphorn	MW 12-1:15	19
AS.200.311	CG/ST	Sensory Representations in the Brain: Maps, Modules, & Distributed Coding	Fischer	TTh 4:30-5:45	19
AS.200.330	CG/CP/ST	Human and Machine Intelligence	Lee	T 1:30-4	19
AS.200.344	ST/CM	Behavioral Endocrinology	Bohn	TTh 3-4:15	80
AS.200.377	ST	Neuroethology	Sterbing-D'Angelo	TTh 10:30-11:45	18
AS.200.659	CP	Quantitative Methods for Brain Sciences (open to seniors with instructor approval; Phd or MD/PhD route)	Mysore	M 10:45-11:59 Th 3:30-4:45	40
EN.553.492	CP	Mathematical Biology	Luke	MW 3-4:15	15
EN.580.439	CP	Models of the Neuron	Zhang	MWF 10:00-10:50; T 9-9:50	10
EN.601.404	CP	Brain & Computation	Kosaraju	T 4:30-5:20	15
ME.440.707	CM	Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission (open to advanced undergraduate students with permission of the instructor and Dr. Trageser, DUS)	Bergles/Worley/Brown/Glowatzki	3rd Quarter Jan 23- Mar 27 M 1-3pm
ME.440.711	CM	Cellular and Molecular Basis of Neural Development I: Neuronal Differentiation (open to advanced undergraduate students with permission of the instructor and Dr. Trageser, DUS)	Kolodkin/Mueller/Potter/Sockanathan	4th Quarter Mar 27- May 19 T 9-11am; Th 2 – 4:30p
ME.440.718	CM/ST	Neurobiology (open to advanced undergraduate students with permission of the instructor and Dr. Trageser, DUS)	Margolis/Watanabe	4th Quarter Mar 27- May 19 MWF 9-10:30am

Fall 2022

Course Number	Course Name	Instructor	Day/Time	Limit	Focus Area
AS.050.312	Cognitive Neuroimaging Methods in High-Level Vision	Li	MW 3-4:15	20	CG
AS.050.352	Applying Cognitive Neuroscience to Artificial Intelligence Part I	Lopez-Gonzalez	MW 1:30-2:45	15	CG/CP
AS.050.365	Cracking the code: Theory and modeling of information coding in neural activity	Mitko	TTh 4:30-5:45	20	CG/CP/ST
AS.050.375	Probabilistic Models of the Visual Cortex	Yullie	TTh 9:00-10:15	20	CG/CP/ST
AS.050.383	Computational Social Cognition	Isik	MW 12-1:15	15	CG/CP
AS.080.301	Behavioral Assessment of Animal Models of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders	Smith	MWF 12:00-12:50	30	ST/CG
AS.080.308	Neuroeconomics	Trageser	WF 12:00-1:15	70	ST/CP
AS.080.310	Synaptic Function and Plasticity	Lee/Kirkwood	WF 3:00-4:15	19	CM
AS.080.316	Prefrontal Cortex: Computational Models and Neurophysiology	Stuphorn	TTh 12:00-1:15	19	CP/ST
AS.080.336	Brain-Body Interactions in Health and Disease	Farah	MW 1:30-2:45	30	ST
AS.080.355	Computational Principles of Biological Vision	Connor/Nielsen	TTh 10:30-11:45	30	CP/ST
AS.080.360	Disease & Disorders of the Nervous System	Baraban/Smith	TTh 4:30-5:45	100	CM/ST
AS.080.620	Theoretical Neuroscience **Open to advanced undergraduate students with instructor’s permission	Niebur	TTh 2:00-3:15	20	CP
AS.200.322	Clinical Neuropsychology	Rickards	T 5:00-7:30	20	ST
AS.200.376	Neuropsychopharmacology	Sterbing-D'Angelo	TTh 10:30-11:45	50	CM/ST
AS.200.380	Neurobiology of Human Cognition	Bedny	T 1:30-3:50	30	CG
AS.290.304	Comparative Neuroanatomy	Balanoff	MW 3-4:15	35	ST
EN.580.625	Structure and Function of the Auditory and Vestibular Systems	Cullen	TTh 8:30-10am (Med Campus)	30	ST
ME.440.820	Circuits and Brain Disorders (with permission of the instructor and Dr. Trageser, DUS)	Worley/Albert/Greenberg	Full Semester T/Th, 11:30am – 12:30pm (Med Campus)		ST/CM