Neuroscience

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• use information technology and other resources to find, extract and synthesise information
• solve problems relating to qualitative and quantitative information
• work with, and within, a group towards defined outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Describe the neural control of behaviour
• Describe the specialised sense organs of vision, smell and taste at a cellular level and the processing of this sensory information in the CNS
• Outline basic cellular and system mechanisms for learning, memory and emotion
• Describe anatomical features of the nervous system
• Describe the concepts of the higher functions of the brain and their spatial localisation
• Explain the role of glial cells in brain function

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• record and analyse neuroscience data
• use a range of neuroscience laboratory equipment to conduct experiments

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Online test

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.