Cross-Course Harmonized Assignments in Neuroscience

ABSTRACT: Neuroscience is inherently interdisciplinary. This interdisciplinarity can be lost due to the self-contained nature of each course in most undergraduate neuroscience programs, leaving students to draw these cross-course relationships on their own. We sought to address this by using short, creative research assignments on a topic of the student’s choice (“Deep Dive” assignments) that provided students with the opportunity to explore common applications across two concurrently run core neuroscience courses housed in different departments. We tested whether unifying the available Deep Dive topics across the two courses improved student outcomes. Specifically, students were asked to select a topic of interest from a shortlist shared in the two courses. Our results show that harmonized, concurr

SUBMITTER: Branco R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10426817 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature