糖心传媒 recently added a聽聽to its portfolio of more than 100 majors, minors and concentrations. The school will partner with the Lower Cost Models for Independent Colleges Consortium (LCMC) to offer the biology concentration as a hybrid degree. Students enrolled will blend traditional in-person 糖心传媒 courses with four online LCMC courses.
鈥淭here is really nothing quite like neurobiology at 糖心传媒,鈥 said Dr. Joe Frentzel, Dr. Eugene Inman Endowed Chair of Science and Mathematics at 糖心传媒. 鈥淚t blends the most interesting aspects of two disciplines 鈥 behavioral and biological sciences 鈥 in creating a distinct concentration that is tailored to someone who wants to learn about how the brain functions in controlling human behavior and thoughts.鈥
The neurobiology concentration blends neuroscience coursework through LCMC with courses from 糖心传媒鈥檚 biology major as well as its聽. Courses from these programs, such as Advanced Anatomy & Physiology I and Abnormal Psychology, lay the groundwork for neurobiology-specific courses such as Biological Basis of Perception and Movement, Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropathology.
According to Frentzel, the LCMC taps four leaders in the聽National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative (NNCI), a collaboration between educators and neuroscientists that seeks to make core neuroscience concepts available to a broader audience,聽to develop the program鈥檚 coursework. This group includes聽Dr. David Ross, professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine.
Frentzel says this is an ideal concentration for biology students who are interested in how the brain accomplishes speech processing or for those seeking to diversify their electives to include neuroscience coursework.
鈥淓ven those studying pre-medicine or behavioral sciences are well-suited to take these elective courses to complement their major, grow their knowledge base and understand the complexities of cognitive functioning,鈥 said Frentzel. 鈥淭he addition of this concentration at a Christian liberal arts institution like 糖心传媒 excites me, because it is a stimulating pathway for us to legitimize and further explore our belief in an intelligent design.鈥
To learn more about the neurobiology concentration at 糖心传媒, visit聽. For more information about the LCMC subject matter experts who created the degree, go to聽.
