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Typical Timeline
For detailed information please refer to the Neuroscience
Graduate Program handbook.
1st Year
Fall:
- Coursework: Required Principles of Neuroscience 1 and literature presentation course. Most students also take one or more elective courses.
- Research: elective lab rotation.
- Attend seminar and journal clubs.
Spring:
- Coursework: Required Principles of Neuroscience 2 and literature presentation course. Most students also take one or more elective courses.
- Research: elective lab rotation.
- Attend seminars and journal clubs.
Summer:
- Research: elective lab rotation.
- Choose thesis advisor and lab.
2nd Year
- Coursework: Required statistics and ethics courses. Complete elective coursework.
- Research: full time research in chosen laboratory.
- Students take the qualifying examination by the end of their second year.
- Attend seminars and journal clubs.
3rd Year and Beyond
- Students are required to submit a predoctoral fellowship (NRSA, NSF or other relevant fellowship) by the middle of their 3rd year.
- Apply for admission to candidacy (year 3).
- Research: full time dissertation research.
- Coursework: complete any outstanding elective coursework.
- Teaching Assistantship: graduate students are required
to complete at least 1 semester as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate
or graduate course.
- Attend seminars and journal clubs.
- Complete research, write, submit and defend dissertation (year 5).
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