Using the Humanities to Teach Neuroscience to Non-majors.

ABSTRACT: We developed and offered a sequence of neuroscience courses geared toward changing the way non-science students interact with the sciences. Although we accepted students from all majors and at all class levels, our target population was first and second year students who were majoring in the fine arts or the humanities, or who had not yet declared a major. Our goal was to engage these students in science in general and neuroscience in particular by teaching science in a way that was accessible and relevant to their intellectual experiences. Our methodology was to teach scientific principles through the humanities by using course material that is at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities and by changing the classroom experience for both faculty and students. Examples of our cou

SUBMITTER: McFarlane HG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4521741 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature