Neuroscience Minor

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Coordinator: Jason Zevin, PhD

Undergraduate Advisers: Elizabeth Linkous, linkous@usc.edu; Lucy A. Leon, lucyleon@usc.edu

Grade Requirements

A grade of C- or higher is required to count toward minor requirements.

Core Requirements (12 Units)

BISC 407 Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Units: 4 or
NEUR 408 Systems Neuroscience: From Synapses to Perception Units: 4 **
BISC 421 Neurobiology Units: 4 **
PSYC 440 Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience Units: 4 ***

Statistics Requirement (4 units)*

Choose one course from the following:

BUAD 310g Applied Business Statistics Units: 4
ECON 317 Introduction to Statistics for Economists Units: 4
HP 340Lg Health Behavior Statistical Methods Units: 4
MATH 208x Elementary Probability and Statistics Units: 4
MATH 307 Statistical Inference and Data Analysis I Units: 4
MATH 407 Probability Theory Units: 4
PSYC 274Lg Statistics Units: 4
QBIO 305g Statistics for Biological Sciences Units: 4

Electives (4 units)

Choose one course from the following:

BISC 312x Molecular Biochemistry Units: 4
BISC 444 Practical Analysis of Biological Data in R Units: 2
BISC 461 Seminar in Molecular and Computational Biology Units: 2
BISC 486 Regenerative Medicine: Principles, Paradigms and Practice Units: 4
BISC 499 Special Topics Units: 2, 3, 4
BME 210 Biomedical Computer Simulation Methods Units: 4
BPSI 405 Organ Systems Physiology, Drug Delivery and Drug Action Units: 4
CHEM 350 Molecular Principles of Biochemistry Units: 4
ECON 405 Neuroeconomics Units: 4
GERO 310 Physiology of Aging Units: 4
GERO 320g Psychology of Adult Development Units: 4
GERO 494 Emotion-Cognition Interactions and Aging Units: 4
HBIO 420L Applied Human Physiology Units: 4
HBIO 435 Neurobiology of Feeding Behavior and Obesity Units: 4
HP 409 Environmental Impacts on the Brain Units: 4
MEDS 340 The Brain in Health and Disease Units: 4
MEDS 350 Neurochemistry of Addiction: Drugs, Brain, and Behavior Units: 2
PSYC 337L Adult Development and Aging Units: 4
PSYC 339Lg Origins of the Mind Units: 4
PSYC 427 Neuropsychopharmacology Units: 4
PSYC 428 Advanced Psychobiology Seminar Units: 4
PSYC 450 Neural Network Models of Social and Cognitive Processes Units: 4
PSYC 452 Social Neuroscience Units: 4
RXRS 403 Neuropharmacology in Health and Disease Units: 4
RXRS 405 Breaking Brains: The Pharmacology of Addiction Units: 4
RXRS 412 Ethics, Drugs and Society Units: 4
QBIO 481 Structural Bioinformatics: From Atoms to Cells Units: 4

Note:

*An equivalent course may be substituted with permission.

**Prerequisite: BISC 220 or BISC 221 .

***Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .

Recommended but not required: CHEM 103Lx (or CHEM 105La ) plus MATH 125

Students who have not already taken the prerequisites (BISC 220 /BISC 221 and PSYC 100 ) will need to take a total of 28 units to satisfy the requirements of a minor in neuroscience. Thus, the range of units will vary from 20 to 28 depending on a student’s background; consult an academic adviser.