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Course Info for NESC - 101 - 01, Fall 2025
Class number: 2713 Title: The Brain Department: Neuroscience
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 35 Current enrollment: 37 Available seats: 0
Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM, LSC - 134 Instructor(s): Poisson, Carli
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Natural Science Requirement
Note: 15 seats reserved for first year students, 10 for sophomores, 10 instructor seats.
Course Description:
Recent developments in neuroscience have revolutionized our views of familiar human experiences such as locomotion, substance abuse, mental illness, sleep, and memorization. Through highly enjoyable and selected readings, presentations by visiting faculty, demonstrations and other activities, we will explore the foundations of this field as well as recent discoveries. The overall objective of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of neuroscience, enabling them to make important decisions that may affect their lives.