Summer 2026
Introduction to AI
This course provides an engaging introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) for students from all disciplines. The course focuses on how AI models learn, make decisions, and interact with their environment, using intuitive examples drawn from everyday technology, neuroscience, medicine, and data science. Emphasis is placed on understanding ideas and basic technical concepts, allowing students to participate fully. Through lectures, discussions, tutorials, and hands-on activities, students will learn basic programming skills to build simple AI models, explore how principles of human learning and brain function have influenced modern AI, understand the depth of what current AI systems can do well, where they fail, and actualize why these distinctions matter
Spring 2026
Professional Development in Neuroscience (NRSC 3320)
A focus on professional development for students obtaining a degree in neuroscience. A survey of the essential skills and knowledge needed for a successful transition to a professional career including networking, career paths, job search strategies, research funding/grant writing, professionalism and ethics, and collaboration.
Research Methods in Neuroscience (NRSC 4350)
A comprehensive exploration of research design principles, emphasizing the development of clear research questions and hypotheses in the field of neuroscience, including in-depth discussion of experimental methodologies, including behavioral assays, neuroimaging techniques, and molecular approaches.
Fall 2025
Neurophysiology (NRSC 3360)
This course provides a comprehensive exploration of the electrical and biochemical processes that underlie the function of the nervous system, including an in-depth understanding of the principles governing the generation and transmission of neural signals from the level of the membrane to the macro levels of the nervous system, encompassing circuit, sensory, and motor systems.