Approved Major Electives Offered in Spring 2024
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Elective options available in SP24
See the catalog for course descriptions and more detail about pre-requisites.
Please schedule an appointment with neuroscience advising for questions or assistance about your Spring 2024 schedule. Or, email neurosci@gmu.edu with brief questions.
Course# | Title | Cr | Format | Pre-requisites |
NEUR 328 | Cellular Neuroscience Lab | 2 | F2F | BIOL 213, NEUR 327 (pre/co-req); Elective for students with catalogs prior to 22/23 |
NEUR 405 | Animal Behavior Lab | 3 | F2F | Statistics (BIOL 214, PSYC 300, STAT 250 or equivalent), PSYC 376; recommended NEUR 327 or 335 |
NEUR 411 | Seminar in Neuroscience | 3 | F2F | Additional sections of NEUR 411 with different topics can be used in NEUR major electives |
NEUR 422 | Glutamatergic Systems | 3 | F2F | NEUR 327 |
NEUR 461 | Behavioral Chemistry | 3 | F2F | |
NEUR 461 | Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms of neurological disorders | 3 | Hybrid, F2F with asynchronous work | Recommended NEUR 335 |
NEUR 461 | Computational Social Neuroscience | 3 | Asynchronous online | |
NEUR 480 | Biological Bases of Alzheimer's | 3 | F2F | |
BENG 101 | Intro to Bioengineering | 3 | Asynchronous online | |
BENG 350 | Neural System Designs | 3 | F2F | BENG 313 and BIOL 213 |
BINF 401 | Bioinformatics/Computational Biology | 3 | Synchronous online | BIOL 213, BIOL 214/stat equivalent and CDS 130 |
BIOL 305 | Microbiology | 3 | F2F or Synchronous online | BIOL 213 |
BIOL 306 | Microbiology lab | 1 | F2F | BIOL 213, BIOL 305 pre/co requisite |
BIOL 311 | Genetics | 4 | F2F or Asynchronous online lecture, req lab is F2F | BIOL 213 and recommended Statistics (BIOL 214 or STAT 250) |
BIOL 322 | Developmental Biology | 3 | F2F | |
BIOL 420 | Vaccines | 3 | Synchronous online | BIOL 305 |
BIOL 426 | Mechanisms of Aging | 3 | Synchronous Online | BIOL 213 and BIOL 311 |
BIOL 429 | Bio Foundation of Pharmacology | 3 | F2F | BIOL 124 & BIOL 125 OR BIOL 430 & BIOL 431 OR BIOL 483/CHEM 463 |
BIOL 431 | Adv Human Anatomy & Physiology II | 4 | F2F | BIOL 213 |
BIOL 452 | Immunology | 3 | F2F | BIOL 213 and BIOL 305 |
BIOL 453 | Immunology lab | 1 | F2F | BIOL 213, BIOL 305/306 |
BIOL 483 (CHEM 463) | Biochemistry | 4 | F2F | BIOL 213 and CHEM 313/315 |
CHEM 313 | Organic Chem I (lecture) | 3 | F2F or Synchronous online | CHEM 212/214 |
CHEM 315 | Organic Chem I lab | 2 | F2F | CHEM 212/214 and pre/Co req CHEM 313 |
CHEM 314 | Organic Chem II (lecture) | 3 | F2F | CHEM 313 |
CHEM 318 | Organic Chem II lab | 2 | F2F | CHEM 313/315 and pre/co req CHEM 314 |
CHEM 463 (BIOL 483) | Biochemistry | 4 | F2F | CHEM 313/315 |
CHEM 465 | Biochemistry lab | 2 | F2F | CHEM 313/315, pre/co req CHEM 463/BIOL 483 |
CDS 301 | Scientific Information and Data Visualization | 3 | F2F or Asynchronous online | CDS 130 |
MATH 114 | Calculus II | 4 | F2F, Synchronous online, or Asynchronous online | MATH 113 (or MATH 123/124) |
MATH 203 | Linear Algebra | 3 | F2F or Asynchronous online | MATH 114 |
MATH 213 | Analytic Geometry & Calculus III | 3 | F2F or Synchronous online | MATH 114 |
MATH 214 | Elementary Differential Equations | 3 | F2F or Asynchronous online | MATH 213 |
PSYC 304 | Principles of Learning | 4 | F2F or Asynchronous online | PSYC 300 (or equivalent, STAT 250 or BIOL 214) |
PSYC 309 | Sensation, Perception, Information Processing | 4 | F2F | PSYC 300 (or equivalent, STAT 250 or BIOL 214) |
PSYC 317 | Cognitive Psychology | 3 | F2F or Asynchronous online | PSYC 100 |
PSYC 441 | Criminal Behavior Psyc/Neuro | 3 | F2F | PSYC 100 |
STAT 350 | Intro to Statistics II | 3 | F2F and Asynchronous online | STAT 250 |