Syllabus NRSC 695C

Neuroscience Colloquium

(2nd year students and up)

Content:

Development and exchange of scholarly information through discussion of published and on-going research. Topics of the colloquium have novel, significant, controversial, and/or far-reaching implications that are of general interest and will cover the breath of neuroscience including molecular, cellular, systems, and cognitive neuroscience.

Objective:

• To foster the process of scientific communication, discourse, and synthesis by explaining on-going research.
• To develop academic skills by critically evaluating the rational, design, execution and interpretation of experiments.
• To develop teaching skills by learning how to present and explain scientific work of others or their own

Semester offered and number of units:

Fall/Spring. This is a 1 credit course, which must be taken by neuroscience graduate students (2^nd year and higher) unless there is a class conflict. The course can be taken for a total of 12 units of credit.

Course coordinator:

Konrad E. Zinsmaier, Ph.D. (Neurobiology), Gould-Simpson 627, 626-1343, kez@neurobio.arizona.edu

Course structure:

The colloquium meets on Tuesdays (see schedule) and includes:

• Data Blitz presentations (typically 6 short-talks by PI's, post-docs, or graduate students)
• Research Lectures (presented by invited external speakers)
• Student Seminars (lectures by graduate students presenting their own work)

Course requirement:

• Participants are required to attend all sessions

Absence:

Attendance is required for all sessions except:

• All holidays or special events observed by organized religions will be honored for those students who show affiliation with that particular religion.
• Absences pre-approved by the UA Dean of Students (or Dean's designee) will be honored. 

Grades:

Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.

Attendance and active participation in discussion: 100%

Cheating and Plagiarism:

University of Arizona Student Code of Conduct and other policies apply: http://dos.web.arizona.edu/uapolicies/.

Disability:

Students who are registered with the Disability Resource Center must submit appropriate documentation to the instructor if they are requesting reasonable accommodations: http://drc.arizona.edu/learn/index.html.

The information in this course syllabus, other than the grade and absence policies, may be subject to change with reasonable advance notice, as deemed appropriate by the course coordinator.