Programme Aims
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Provide students with diverse background of undergraduate education with updated knowledge and practical techniques of basic and translational neuroscience.
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Provide students with knowledge and encourage them to critically think about emerging neuroscience and neuroscience-related interdisciplinary research, technology, education, and industries, and to prepare them for a career in this growing multi-disciplinary field.
- Educate healthcare and non-healthcare professionals with updated relevant knowledge of neuroscience and neuropsychiatric disorders.
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes (PILOs)
- Understand how the anatomy and physiology of our nervous system enable the various functions such as learning and memory, sensory and motor function, and emotion.
- Understand how dysfunction of the nervous system can lead to neurological and psychiatric disorders, and how new therapeutics can be developed to treat them.
- Critically evaluate the latest research literature and apply it to provide solutions to current issues in nervous system health.
- Critically analyse, interpret, discuss and justify neuroscientific data.
- Communicate effectively, manage skillfully, and work closely with people from diverse education and professional background and experience. Communicate complex translational neuroscience concepts effectively to a variety of audience.
