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Learning Goals for Psych 430: Development of Brain Connections
Jaime Olavarria
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Become familiar and knowledgeable of the major issues and theories in the field of Developmental Neurobiology.
- Find and extract information directly from scientific articles describing recent advances in the field of Developmental Neurobiology.
- Integrate and synthesize information from scientific journals dealing with both innate and environmental factors that play a role in the development of neuronal connections in the central nervous system.
- Read scientific articles critically, and understand the purpose and results of experiments within the context of the field.
- Learn to evaluate the validity of the data presented in scientific articles, and assess the overall contribution of published findings to the field of brain development.
- Compare and relate the findings and approaches presented in different papers, and develop an idea of how the field progresses by the incremental contribution of many papers that are not necessarily in agreement with each other.
- Engage in active discussions of scientific issues with peers.
- Develop oral presentation skills by presenting scientific papers, and promoting and moderating the discussion of the findings.
- Develop writing skills through the periodic writing of short essays and of a final long essay that effectively constitutes a review of all/most material covered in the class.
