This unit was my favourite this semester. Alex and Emily are the UCs with Emily doing the majority of the lecturing and assessment marking. Emily is a great lecturer and explains content in an easy to follow way. The assessments include 3 in-person MCQ quizzes (10% each), zebrafish lab report (30%), and final exam (40%). The quizzes were straightforward, easy to do well in as long as you revise the lectures. The zebrafish lab was done off campus and great experience as you got to work with the fish. This lab may not happen for subsequent years due to strict animal ethics guidelines. The lab report only required the results and discussion sections with a heavy emphasis on the figures (had to be created in JASP). Using JASP and converting the videos taken in the lab was a little difficult and not much guidance was given. The final exam was fair made up of MCQs and SAQs. Barely, any of the guest lecture content was assessed in the final exam and quizzes. Overall, this is a great unit with fair marking and a good structure.

Solid unit - UC is very succint & responsive, explains hard concepts in simple ways. The guest lectures/lectures apart from UC have interesting content, definitely exposes you to the breadth of the field. Had lots of fun learning all that info - would be nice to have learnt it earlier in the degree, but not complaining too much about that atm. Unit structure was 3 quizzes for 1/3 of each content of the semester, a journal club and a final exam. Journal club definitely is a hard one to score well but start early. Final exam was all SAQs, less of the "guest" lectures content was assessed. Only downside was unfortunately some of the quizzes had clashes with the other neuro unit.

I liked this unit overall. Its quite content heavy but I've found it to be the most interesting neuroscience unit I've taken to date. There's a journal club article and three online mcqs throughout the semester. Overall lots of content but super interesting and the final exam qus aren't too hard if you've kept on top of the content (it is short answer)

This was a rather stressful unit, that I believe should be renamed to "Neuropharmacology." 3 lectures/week that often went overtime and were filled to the brim with content that on its own is interesting, but the teaching style and assessments made it more stressful than anything else. There are no labs. Excluding the tests, which fortunately took questions from the practice quizzes, there is a report where there isn't much guidance on where to start or get through it and most of the time was just searching for the right resource. The exam is okay, short answer and essay questions that sounds intimidating but they are straightforward. This is a difficult unit, and you will have to put in a lot of effort in to get a HD.

okay so biggest advice for this unit STAY ON TOP OF YOUR LECTURES! This unit has 3 on campus quizzes worth 30% so try to stay on top of the content as theres is a LOT of content in this unit. In addition, PRACTISE the practise quizzes, the lecturer tends to reuse some of the question from the practise quiz so really make sure you can answer those questions. To add on, there is a 30% report component, ngl this report was a PAIN. We were left with very little information on how to get around this report and honestly if it wasn't for my classmates I don't think I would have even submitted one. So make some friends and use any piece of information you get about the report (even info from the discussion board) to navigate yourself around it. As hard as this unit is I definitely think a distinction is reasonable, and if your able to maintain a high avg before the exam a HD is too!

Labs were really interesting get to lesion our own rat etc... as it will be neur students doing this one do some pharmacology in your own time before you commence this unit it will really help. The unit coordinator is an interesting fellow ...