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Course Requirements for Ph.D. Candidates
in Neuroscience/Motor Control

Prerequisite Courses
One year of physics
One semester of calculus
Anatomy
Human Physiology
Biomechanics
Motor Control

Required Courses and Semester Hours (sh.)
27:155 Skeletal Muscle Biology (3 sh.)
27:314 Seminar in Motor Control (2 sh.)
132:234 Medical Neuroscience (4 sh.)

101:212 Biomedical Instrumentation (3 sh.) or
003:219 Fundamentals of Lab Instrumentation (3 sh.)

101:295 Applied Electromyography (3 sh.) or
101:275 Analyses of Sensori-Motor Systems in Health and Disease (3 sh.)

Recommended Elective Courses (Not limited to those listed below).
002:180 Fundamental Neuroscience (4 sh.)
27:117 Human Growth and Motor Development (3 sh.)
27:153 Embryology and Connective Tissue Anatomy (2 sh.)
31:134 Cognition and the Brain (3 sh.)
31:133 Sensation and Perception (3 sh.)
31:324 Seminar: Dynamical Systems Approaches (0-2 sh.)
31:241 Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience (3 sh.)
31:155 Human Factors Engineering (3 sh.)
31:135 Principles of Behavioral Analysis (3 sh.)
101:285 Biomechanical Analysis in Rehabilitatin (arr)
132:181 Neurophysiology (3 sh.)

Specific dissertation problems that require a greater depth in one specific area may require additional courses not listed, and should be selected in consultation with the advisor.