The undergraduate major in Neuroscience is an intercollege program offered by both the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. Both colleges offer a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science degree.
Studies span the behavior, physiology, neurobiology, and neurochemistry of humans and other animals.
Courses are taught by faculty in Biology, Neuroscience, and Psychology who are recognized for quality in the classroom and in the laboratory. Professors are active researchers in their respective fields and hold memberships in international scientific organizations where they are recognized for their research. Undergraduate research and special studies Students may be selected to work as part of a research team under the guidance of a faculty member and have access to some of the best behavioral and physiological research laboratories in the country. The University Honors Program, offering lower-division courses taught by distinguished faculty, introduces undergraduates to the challenges and rewards of scholarship and research from the beginning of their undergraduate careers. In the upper division, the program invites outstanding students to design and produce honors theses and projects under individual faculty supervision.