Neuroscience
Sample Course Plan - Cellular & Molecular, Pre-Med Interest
Neuroscience Major with Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Concentration and a Pre-Medicine Interest
Additional Sample Course Plans
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Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Concentration (without pre-medicine interests)
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Behavioral Concentration with Pre-Medicine/Pre-Health Interest
- Behavioral Concentration (without pre-med/pre-health interests)
All credit earned at IWU, no double counting, no May Term courses
- General education requirements are shown next to the course
- Courses in bold are required for the neuroscience major. These include 13 courses in the major plus any pre-requisite courses outside the program that are necessary to complete major requirements.
- Courses with an asterisk are needed or strongly recommended for medical school and should be taken before the MCAT*
- 9 of 11 upper-level courses are built into the major
- Students will need to ensure that they elect BIOL 410, BIOL 412, PSYC 313, PSYC 321, or PSYC 401 to fulfill W in the major.
Fall Semester
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General Chemistry CHEM 201* PSL
- Human Biology BIOL 107* LSL
- Gateway GW
- Language LA
Spring Semester
- General Chemistry CHEM 202*
- Human Biology BIOL 108*
- Introductory Sociology SOC 100 CSI
- Language LA
Fall Semester
- Behavioral Neuroscience PSYC 213
- Organic Chemistry CHEM 311*
- Applied Analysis I MATH 176* FR
- Language LA
Spring Semester
- Genetics BIOL 312 LSI
- Organic Chemistry CHEM 312*
- The Arts ART
- Writing Intensive W
Fall Semester
- Survey of Biochemistry CHEM 317*
- PSYC 300 elective course
- Physics 101 (elective)*
- US Diversity U
- Physical Education PE
Spring Semester
- BIOL 209 *
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience BIOL 325
- Medical Ethics PHIL 225 AV
- Physics 102 (elective)*
- Physical Education PE
Fall Semester
- 300/400-level major elective W
- 400 level Capstone
- Literature LIT
- Global G
Spring Semester
- 300/400-level major elective
- Elective
- Intellectual Traditions IT
- Cultural and Historical Change CHC
