Approved Major Electives Offered in Spring 2025
Elective options available in SP25
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 101 | Intro to Neuroscience | 3 | F2F and hybrid F2F | No pre-reqs but must be taken before PSYC/NEUR 3--Level courses |
| NEUR 405 | Animal Behavior Research Lab | 3 | F2F | Statistics, PSYC 375/376 |
| NEUR 461 | Behavioral Chemistry | 3 | F2F | |
| NEUR 461 | Neuroinformatics Methods | 3 | F2F | recommended NEUR 101 or 327 or 335 |
| BINF 401 | Bioinformatics I | 3 | Synchronous online | |
| BENG 101 | Intro to Bioengineering | 3 | Asynchronous online | |
| BENG 350 | Neural System Designs | 3 | F2F | BENG 313 or 214 and BIOL 213 |
| BENG 426 | Neural Engineering | 3 | F2F | BENG 370/371 |
| BENG 434 | Computational Neuron Networks | 3 | F2F | BENG 327/NEUR 327 |
| BIOL 305 | Microbiology | 3 | F2F and Synchronous online | BIOL 213 |
| BIOL 306 | Microbiology lab | 1 | F2F | BIOL 213, BIOL 305 pre/co requisite |
| BIOL 311 | Genetics | 4 | F2F and Synchronous online lectures, req lab is F2F | BIOL 213 and recommended Statistics (BIOL 214 or STAT 250) |
| BIOL 322 | Developmental Biology | 3 | F2F | BIOL 213, rec BIOL 311 |
| BIOL 323 | Developmental Biology Lab | 1 | F2F | Pre/Co-requisite BIOL 322 |
| BIOL 326 | Animal Physiology | 3 | F2F | |
| BIOL 417 | Human Pathology | 3 | Synchronous online | |
| BIOL 417 | R&D in Biotechnology | 3 | Synchronous online | |
| BIOL 420 | Vaccines | 3 | Asynchronous online | BIOL 305/306 |
| BIOL 426 | Mechanisms of Aging | 3 | Synchronous online | Recommended BIOL 213 and 311 |
| BIOL 429 | Bio Foundations of Pharmacology | 3 | F2F | BIOL 124/125 OR BIOL 430/431 OR BIOL 483 |
| BIOL 431 | Adv Anatomy & Physiology II | 4 | F2F and Synchronous online lectures, required lab F2F | BIOL 430 |
| 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 and 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 and Synchronous online | 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 |
| CDS 301 | Scientific Information and Data Visualization | 3 | F2F and Asynchronous online | CDS 130 |
| MATH 114 | Calculus II | 4 | F2F, Synchronous online | MATH 113 (or MATH 123/124) |
| MATH 116 | Calculus III | 3 | F2F | MATH 114 |
| MATH 203 | Linear Algebra | 3 | F2F and Synchronous online | MATH 114 |
| MATH 213 | Analytic Geometry & Calculus III | 3 | F2F | MATH 114 |
| MATH 214 | Elementary Differential Equations | 3 | F2F and Synchronous online | MATH 213 |
| PSYC 304 | Principles of Learning | 4 | F2F and 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 and Asynchronous online | PSYC 100 |
| PSYC 441 | Criminal Behavior and Neur | 3 | F2F | PSYC 100 |
| PSYC 461 | The Electric Brain Method Cognition | 3 | F2F | PSYC 100, at least one PSYC 300 level course |
| PSYC 461 | Drugs & the Brain | 3 | Asynchronous online | |
| STAT 350 | Intro to Statistics II | 3 | F2F | STAT 250 |