Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Program
Coursework
All graduate students within the Department of Psychology must complete a series of core courses in basic fields of psychology. This core sequence consists of Psychopathology, Social Psychology, Advanced Psychological Methods, Advanced Psychological Statistics, and Multiple Regression and Statistics. In addition, Health students must take a Health Division core course in Behavioral Medicine.
Courses offered with health content include Psychopharmacology, Behavioral Medicine, Stress, Emotion, and Motivation, Psychoneuro-immunology, and Neuropsychology. Students also receive course credit for research leading to the master's thesis and the doctoral dissertation.
Behavioral Neuroscience coursework available from within the Department of Psychology includes topics in psychobiology, psychopharmacology, and psychophysiology, as well as periodic seminars in Neuroscience. Other relevant coursework offered outside the department includes system and integrative neurosciences, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, immunology, membrane biophysics, neuroethology, and developmental neurobiology.