The best aspects of this course included the stimulating lectures, fascinating course content, and effective professors. The students felt that the professors real y engaged them in the different topics and taught the course well. The worst aspects of the course included the heavy coursework involving lengthy readings, ambiguous tests, and homework assignments. Some of the lectures felt rushed and disorganized, which left students with more content to learn on their own. The course would improve if the lecture slides were more organized, if the workload was slightly reduced, and if the students had more review examples to help them prepare for the exams. Prospective students should have some sort of neuroscience background and be prepared to do lots of work in order to perform well in the course.

Students found that the best aspects of this course included the highly engaging professors and the interesting course materials covered. Students found the lectures to be interesting, if a little too fast, but thought that the readings were too long. The PowerPoint slides for the lectures were also a bit bare, and that the exams were very detail-oriented. Suggestions for improvement included assigning shorter reading assignments, providing recordings of the lectures, and creating detailed review sheets or sessions to better prepare for exams. Prospective students should be prepared for a reading intensive course with chal enging but interesting subject matter.

Students enjoyed the presentation of this course’s lectures by entertaining and passionate instructors. Students thought that a drawback of the class was the large amount of assigned reading from the course’s textbook. Students also thought that the exams could have emphasized recall of larger concepts rather than more specific details. Students thought that it was important for future participants to know that background knowledge of neuroscience was useful in this course. They also thought it was important potential participants know that the course emphasized animal rather than human examples in its subject matter.