Department Description:

Neuroscience is a broad and diverse field at the frontier of science today. The goal of neuroscience is to understand how the brain and nervous system acquire, process, and integrate information from the environment and how this information brings about behavior of the organism. Neuroscience is truly an integrative discipline in which chemistry, biology, psychology, physics and mathematics all provide us with insight into how the nervous system functions from the basic molecular processes to the sophisticated behavior of higher organisms. The neuroscience program at Concordia is unique in its emphasis on the physical basis of Neuroscience, especially chemistry. The molecular level approach is integrated with the more traditional system wide and behavioral emphasis. The Neuroscience minor would therefore nicely complement any major in the above mentioned disciplines.

(Department description for the 2007 Concordia courses catalog)

Department Head:

Other Faculty:

• Kristen B. Diederich
• Susan J. Larson
• Mikel L. Olson
• Krystle D. Strand
• Darin J. Ulness

Majors and Minors Offered:

Sampling of courses Taught: 

• Introduction to Neuroscience
• Physical Neuroscience
• PSYC 328 Human Neuropsychology  
• Special Topics
• Neurobiology

Classes were most likely held in Jones and Ivers