Neuroscience
About the Neuroscience major
With its focus on the relationships among brain function, cognitive processing and behavior, neuroscience is a truly interdisciplinary field, one that is ideal for studying in a liberal arts environment that promotes connections among disciplines.
As a neuroscience major at Union, you will begin your studies with a variety of core courses in several departments, including biology, computer science, philosophy and psychology. Then you will select one of three tracks for specialization:
- Bioscience: Focuses on the biological basis of neural development, function and plasticity
- Cognitive: Addresses how neural networks and brain mechanisms give rise to specific mental processes and behavior; or
- Computational: Emphasizes issues related to developing computational models of neuronal and mental processes.
After Union
- Associate editor, My Grove Media
- Associate manager, biotech production, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
- Chief resident, NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia-Cornell Hospital
- Clinical research coordinator, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- Clinical research coordinator, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Educator, Teach for America
- Fellow, Vizient Inc.
- Image reading center manager, Johns Hopkins University
- Manager, Business Services, Northwell Direct
- M.D. candidate, Tufts University School of Medicine
- Optometrist, U.S. Air Force
- Pain Medicine Fellow, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
- Physician assistant, cardiothoracic surgery, Atrium
- Research specialist, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Research technologist, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Social worker, SSM Health