This unit is easy only if your are good at art as it practically covers more art than neuroscience itself. There is stuff due almost every single week. The assessments are comprised of small weekly activities/quizzes (which was honestly not that bad as they are mostly weighed very little), a "power discussion" where you upload neuroscience papers on assigned topics and comment on papers uploaded by your peers, a "hangout" which you sign up to (either face-to-face or online) and post a question (i.e., for whoever is presenting) and then write a short reflective neuroanatomy essay afterwords. Finally, the major assignment which is weighed quite heavily and you have to create a creative piece representing a metaphor and link it to neuroscience elements described in a gallery guide. All of this is good and all, however, the most difficult part is the level of flexibility in this unit. It is almost TOO flexible with the creative/art activities and left very much up to open interpretation of the students with little explanation on what is expected/standard. The UCs are alright and have created a very comprehensive unit guide which is detailed and informative but takes a lot of effort to read through just to find the information you are looking for. Overall, this unit is not hard in terms of the the content but it can get very easy to get confused/lost and does require effort on a weekly basis. Not to mention that it covers little to no actual neuroscience content as there are no compulsory lectures. Considering the number of tasks required to be completed, if you are not constantly up-to-date with the deadlines, you will likely miss something.

This unit was honestly really confusing for me. The lecturers didn't really teach new material, you have to kind of learn it yourself. The lectures are not really beneficial at all! The major assignment was not what I expected when taking a neuro unit as it was based more on creativity. This unit was overall pretty confusing and all over the place and was not a smooth unit.

The general consensus for this unit is either you hate it or you like it, nothing in between. The major assignment was interesting, and so were the assessments, literally making us research our own desired topics and understand neuroscience on a deeper level. The unit guide & assessments are really confusing and there are lots of them. The lectures are mostly for your knowledge and do not really contribute much to your major assignment, it was a good break from all my other content heavy units. The only issue was that the workshops to help with the major asaignment were all in the first 7-8 weeks of semester, and the assignment was due at the end of week 12. simply put, it was a lot of guidance in the first half and then the second half was absolutely no guidance at all (a bit stressful towards the end) has no exams but the major assignment is 50% of the grade

Many of the online activities throughout the semester + the final project have creative components, which is kind of a cute idea but pretty worthless for actual neuroscience knowledge. Lectures are totally unnecessary, the content isn't examined but instead meant to inspire you for your final project. Sort of a pisstake unit. Coordinators are nice but you really don't learn much and just need to sweat out your final project. PS. be prepared for THE MOST confusing unit guide ever - super "unique" organisation of the sem.

Super easy HD. A little bit of art and some short entries to write. Lectures are present but are not related to the assessments since it is purely for personal interest. Highly recommend it for an easy HD and fun experience.

This unit was pretty easy for me but be warned, if you don't have an artistic side you will probably struggle as there are 2 creative assignements (colouring in and creating an optical illusion) and the major assignment ( worth 50%) is heavily focused on creative aspects.

Big emphasis on the creative assignment that I don’t really think I took away as much of the actual scientific knowledge as I could have

Not what I expected going into the unit as it focused largely on the art and music side of neuroscience. There were online activities every 2 weeks which were not too difficult as you didn't even need to watch the lectures to do them. The major assessment I found difficult as it had a creative section where you needed to make a metaphor for a neuroscience topic and the unit co-ordinators although lovely didn't really explain much surrounding the assessment. We did have a chance to talk about the major assessment in 2 sessions but because they were so early in the semester and I procrastinated starting the assessment I personally didn't gain anything from them.

This unit is kinda a mess. They did try to make it relevant and cool but there was no reason to go to the lectures and the Major Assignment, now worth 50% of the unit was really tricky. They expect a lot and give no guidance. There is a very easy 25% made up of literally reading some articles, but I really didn't learn anything from this. If you're interested in neuro, this is the wrong unit. But if you just want to have some fun and you're feeling super creative, then you'll have fun. Also, using a metaphor does not automatically mean you're being creative or artsy - although that's what the rubric seems to think.

A good and simple introduction to a broad range of neuroscience topics, without the expectations and pressure typical in core neuroscience units. Half the unit is from an alternative/ arts perspective, loosely paired (with a neuroscience topic) into weekly topics, which makes for a good light first year unit or broadening unit. As mentioned by others there is one major assessment, which makes up 70% of the unit marks - so, obviously, requires substantial effort to obtain a high score. The other 30% is made up of very small assessments, which are awarded full marks for completion. There is room for some improvements, mainly in the matching of topics - however, not unexpected from a new unit (2017).