Postgraduate Course: Diploma Dissertation (Neuroscience) (NEBM11003)
Course Outline
| School | School of Biomedical Sciences | 
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine | 
 
| Course type | Dissertation | 
Availability | Available to all students | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | 
Credits | 40 | 
 
| Home subject area | Neuroscience (Biomedical Sciences) | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
| Course website | 
http://www.mscneuro.mvm.ed.ac.uk/ | 
Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | Students use library and other web-based or text-based resources to prepare an original report on an area of neuroscience research.  
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Information for Visiting Students 
| Pre-requisites | None | 
 
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes 
To understand principles of design of experiments and in contemporary methods and techniques in neuroscience research; To analyse and present quantitative neuroscience data; To write coherent and scholarly scientific reports. 
 
 
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Assessment Information 
| Written Dissertation (<5000 words): 100% |  
 
Special Arrangements 
| None |   
 
Additional Information 
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| Syllabus | 
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| Transferable skills | 
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| Reading list | 
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| Keywords | neuroscience, diploma, dissertation | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Thomas Becker 
Tel: 0131 242 7983 
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Course secretary | Miss Lauren Sandford 
Tel: (0131 6)51 1824 
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