Program Learning Outcomes - Neuroscience

By the end of the program, students graduating will be able to:

• Students will develop knowledge of the key concepts, major fields, methodologies, current advances in the sciences through core courses in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and neuroscience.
• Students will be able to explain concepts in neuroscience from the cellular to the behavioural levels in both human and non-human animals.
• Describe the neuroscience of human movement, mental health and their pathological implications.
• Students will evaluate the appropriateness of different methods in neuroscience research and solve problems using well-established ideas and techniques.
• Students will formulate arguments or solve problems in the neuroscience field using these methods in their term papers and the more in-depth hands-on research courses.
• Students will design research experiments and implement new approaches to neuroscience problems.
• Develop and demonstrate they have acquired important technical skills from advanced lab and computer training and apply these skills to answer new questions.
• Students will demonstrate the ability to communicate information, arguments, and analyses accurately and reliably, orally and in writing in a range of core neuroscience and elective courses.
• Students will evaluate the limits of their own knowledge based on uncertainties in the field of neuroscience.
• Students will be able to recognize the uncertainties in the interpretation of scientific data.
• Students will demonstrate the ability to work effectively and professionally with others, and the capacity to make decisions in complex contexts through a graduated progression from core coursework, specialized coursework in neuroscience, and hands- on work in research-related courses.