{"id":403,"date":"2023-12-31T13:21:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T18:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mc10\/?page_id=403"},"modified":"2023-12-31T13:29:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T18:29:10","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mc10\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: black;font-size: larger\">Courses taught at Williams College:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: black;font-size: larger\">NSCI 201: Neuroscience. <\/strong><span style=\"color: black;font-size: larger\">Course Objectives: To learn the fundamental concepts of neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neural circuits in vertebrate organisms; to learn the methods and logic by which scientists study the nervous system and to propose experiments to answer open questions; to gain skills performing neuroscience experiments in histology, neurophysiological recordings, and analysis of behavior.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: black;font-size: larger\">BIOL 205: Physiology. <\/strong><span style=\"color: black;font-size: larger\">Course Objectives: To learn the fundamental mechanisms by which animals regulate their internal environments and maintain homeostasis; to practice testing hypotheses by performing physiological experiments and analyzing quantitative data using statistics; to gain writing skills by writing formal laboratory reports and clear descriptions of physiological mechanisms; to experience and practice scientific peer review of written work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: black;font-size: larger\">BIOL 311: Neural Systems and Circuits. <\/strong><span style=\"color: black;font-size: larger\">Course Objectives: To learn the major neural systems that regulate sensory, motor, homeostatic, and cognitive brain functions in mammals; to read and synthesize cutting-edge papers in systems neuroscience; to perform an independent research project using systems neuroscience techniques; to gain writing skills by writing an original literature review; to experience and practice scientific peer review of manuscripts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: black;font-size: larger\">BIOL 412: Neural and Hormonal Basis of Hunger. <\/strong><span style=\"color: black;font-size: larger\">Course Objectives: To learn the neural and hormonal systems that regulate appetite in mammals by reading the primary literature; to develop skills in critically reading, analyzing, and discussing primary literature; to design original scientific experiments to solve open scientific problems; to gain skills in scientific writing and anonymous peer review. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: black;font-size: larger\">NSCI 401: Topics in Neuroscience. <\/strong><span style=\"color: black;font-size: larger\">Course Objectives: To understand, discuss, and critique contemporary papers in neuroscience; to design and communicate scientific experiments; to experience and practice scientific peer review of research proposals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courses taught at Williams College: NSCI 201: Neuroscience. Course Objectives: To learn the fundamental concepts of neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neural circuits in vertebrate organisms; to learn the methods and logic by which scientists study the nervous system and to propose experiments to answer open questions; to gain skills performing neuroscience experiments in histology, neurophysiological recordings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1485,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-403","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mc10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mc10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mc10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mc10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mc10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mc10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mc10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/403\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mc10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}