MSc Neuroscience 理學碩士(神經科學)

Course Overview

Programme Aims and Objectives

Programme Aims

• Provide students with diverse background of undergraduate education with updated knowledge and practical techniques of basic and translational neuroscience.
• Provide students with knowledge and encourage them to critically think about emerging neuroscience and neuroscience-related interdisciplinary research, technology, education, and industries, and to prepare them for a career in this growing multi-disciplinary field.
• Educate healthcare and non-healthcare professionals with updated relevant knowledge of neuroscience and neuropsychiatric disorders.

Programme Intended Learning Outcomes (PILOs)

• Understand how the anatomy and physiology of our nervous system enable the various functions such as learning and memory, sensory and motor function, and emotion.
• Understand how dysfunction of the nervous system can lead to neurological and psychiatric disorders, and how new therapeutics can be developed to treat them.
• Critically evaluate the latest research literature and apply it to provide solutions to current issues in nervous system health.
• Critically analyse, interpret, discuss and justify neuroscientific data.
• Communicate effectively, manage skillfully, and work closely with people from diverse education and professional background and experience. Communicate complex translational neuroscience concepts effectively to a variety of audience.