Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience
Neuroscience Minor
The Neuroscience Minor is now being advising through the Department of Biology. Please contact advising@bio.tamu.edu if you have any questions or concerns.
The Neuroscience Minor, is considered an interdisciplinary minor with course selections in the Departments of Biology, Psychology, Philosophy and Veterinary Integrative Biosciences. Please be aware that each course selection below may have prerequisite requirements that must be met. The coursework (15 credits) listed represents various sub-disciplines within the field of Neuroscience and would give the student an overall knowledge base fitting a minor in Neuroscience.
To apply to declare a Neuroscience Minor, the student must complete a Neuroscience Minor Approval Form (linked below). Upon approval of the addition of the minor, the Neuroscience Minor Approval Form must be signed by the Neuroscience Minor academic advisor and then submitted by the student to the major advisor to be officially added to the student’s curriculum. The minor must be declared before the student has completed 95 hours.
Submit Minor Request Forms To:
Biology Department
Undergraduate Programs Office
Butler Hall, Room 107
3258 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843
Neuroscience Minor Approval Form
Requirements:
(1) Fifteen (15) hours from the approved course list (below) must be taken.
(2) No more than six (6) credit hours can be counted towards both the student’s major and the Neuroscience minor.
(3) Up to six (6) hours of directed studies (NRSC 485) and/or undergraduate research (NRSC 491) may be counted towards the Neuroscience minor. Hours cannot be counted towards both the Neuroscience Minor and an additional minor.
(4) No grade below a C is acceptable to meet the minor requirements.
(5) The minor must be declared before the student has completed 95 credit hours.
Approved Courses:
NRSC 235 (PSYC 235) | 3 CREDITS | Introduction to Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience |
NRSC 277 (VIBS 277) | 3 CREDITS | Introduction to Neuroscience |
NRSC 311 (PSYC 311) | 3 CREDITS | Comparative Psychology/Psychology of Animal Behavior |
NRSC 320 (PSYC 320) | 3 CREDITS | Sensation & Perception |
NRSC 332 (PSYC 332) | 3 CREDITS | Neuroscience of Learning & Memory |
NRSC 333 (PSYC 333) | 3 CREDITS | Biology of Psychological Disorders |
NRSC 335 (PSYC 335) | 3 CREDITS | Physiological Psychology *No longer offered after FY19* |
NRSC 336 (PSYC 336) | 3 CREDITS | Drugs & Behavior |
NRSC 340 (PSYC 340) | 3 CREDITS | Psychology of Learning |
NRSC 350 (PSYC 350) | 3 CREDITS | Science of Mind and Brain/ Cognitive Neuroscience |
NRSC 360 (PSYC 360) | 3 CREDITS | Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine |
NRSC 401 | 2 CREDITS | Developmental Neurotoxicology |
NRSC 407 | 2 CREDITS | Core Ideas in Neuroscience |
NRSC 434 (BIOL 434) | 3 CREDITS | Regulatory & Behavioral Neuroscience |
NRSC 440 (PSYC 440) | 3 CREDITS | Hormones & Behavior |
NRSC 450 (VIBS 450) | 4 CREDITS | Mammalian Functional Neuroanatomy |
NRSC 485 | 0-3 CREDITS | Directed Studies |
NRSC 489 | 1-4 CREDITS | Special Topics |
NRSC 491 | 0-4 CREDITS | Undergraduate Research |
BIOL 388 | 4 CREDITS | Principles of Animal Physiology |
BIOL 435 | 1 CREDIT | Laboratory for Regulatory & Behavioral Neuroscience |
PHIL 320 | 3 CREDITS | Philosophy of Mind |