Undergraduate Course: Neuroscience Synoptic Assessment (NEBM10038)

Course Outline
School	Deanery of Biomedical Sciences	College	College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	Synoptic assessment of general expertise and understanding of contemporary neuroscience.
Course description	This assessment seeks to establish your wider knowledge and understanding of issues in contemporary neuroscience, the challenges that face researchers in gaining mechanistic insight to the workings of the brain and nervous system and the extent to which this knowledge can be used to develop therapies to treat disease. You are expected to have gained this knowledge and understanding from material taught in the earlier years of undergraduate study, during the General Neuroscience course and importantly through wider reading of contemporary research. You will be expected to appraise critically findings that are presented in research papers, reviews or in seminars that you attend. You are encouraged to keep up to date with new findings and their impact by reading relevant papers in neuroscience-specific (e.g. Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Trends in Neurosciences) and more general journals (e.g. Nature, Science, eLife, Cell). Further guidance on preparation and details of the Synoptic Examination will be provided during Semester 2.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites	Students MUST also take: General Neuroscience (NEBM10028) AND Neuroscience Project Preview Dissertation (NEBM10035) AND Neuroscience Project (NEBM10005)
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2023/24, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Full Year
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Summative Assessment Hours 8, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 90 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	24 hour open book assessment with the expectation that the task can be completed in 8 hours. 2000 word limit for essay.
Feedback	Session, if requested, following conclusion of final Classification Board of Examiners Meeting.
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Apply knowledge to demonstrate understanding of neurobiological processes including an ability to critically evaluate and integrate information from a range of sources. Demonstrate analytical and interpretive skills in relation research data and an ability to develop and critically analyse hypotheses and arguments. Demonstrate understanding and the application of appropriate techniques to test hypotheses in contemporary neuroscience. Communicate understanding and analysis of major topics in neuroscience through the planning and synthesis of a balanced, coherent, focussed and logically-written 2000 word essay.