Neuroscience 101L Syllabus Winter 2009 DATE WEEK TOPIC READING LECTURES ON MONDAY AND THURS. Monday 1/5 1 Molecular Neurobiology Boulter/Weinmaster See Reader on Molecular Biology Monday 1/12 2 Molecular Neurobiology Boulter/Weinmaster See Reader on Molecular Biology Monday 1/19 3 Molecular Neurobiology Boulter/Weinmaster No lecture on 1/19 MLK Day—LABS MEET First write-up due AT START OF LAB. See Reader on Molecular Biology Monday 1/26 4 QTL Module Dr Grisham Attendance Required Thurs 1-29—meet in A456 Franz Second Molecular Write-ups due 1-29 Reader on QTL Monday 2/2 5 QTL Module Dr Grisham Reader on QTL Monday 2/9 6 Virtual Neural Circuits Dr. Krasne QTL write-up due START OF LAB Reader on Swimmy Monday 2/16 7 Virtual Neural Circuits Dr. Krasne No lecture 2/16 but LABS HAPPEN Reader on Swimmy Monday 2/23 8 Virtual Neural Circuits Dr. Krasne Reader on SwimmyMonday 3/2 9 Neuropsychology of Learning and memory Dr. Knowlton SWIMMY Write-ups due Start of lab Reader on Neuropsychology Monday 3/9 10 Neuropsychology of Learning and memory Dr. Knowlton Reader on Neuropsychology Monday 3/16 Finals Week Neuropsychology write-ups due 11:00-11:30 March 17 (Tuesday Labs) March 18 (Wednesday Labs) No sit-down final Instructors Dr. Bill Grisham [email protected] 825-7990 Office: Franz 8425 D Office Hours: As Announced IN LAB and by Appointment Dr. Jim Boulter [email protected] Dr. Barbara Knowlton [email protected] Dr. Frank Krasne [email protected] Dr. Gerry Weinmaster [email protected] TAs Che Hutson [email protected] Rick Laughlin : [email protected] Helpful web sites: BruinCast http://www.bruincast.ucla.edu/ SWIMMY program and tutorials http://mdcune.psych.ucla.edu/modules/swimmy Policies Participation is mandatory. Failure to participate in lab will result in a 30% grade penalty for that module. Students will only come to the lab section in which they are enrolled. Lab doors will be locked ten minutes after class starts. Work must be turned in to Dr. Grisham. There will be a late penalty of 10% of total possible points for each day late--exceptions only for illness WITH DOCUMENTATION, or death in immediate family WITH DOCUMENTATION. The full late penalty will be initiated 10 minutes after the start of class. Penalty will go to 20% after 8 hours late and compound with each subsequent day. Computer trouble, printer trouble, ortraffic will not be an acceptable reason for an extension. Assignments are due at the start of lab period. All assignments must be typed and partial assignments will not be accepted. Email assignments will not be acceptable. Dr Grisham will handle re-grades. If a student requests a re-grade, their entire assignment will be re-graded, and the student’s grade can go up OR GO DOWN. Students have one week after receiving their paper back to request a re-grade, after one week, requests will not be considered. Plagiarism and Cheating All work MUST be the student’s own individual work. Collaborative efforts (explicit or implicit) will not be acceptable. Do NOT work together on any assignment. Sharing your work on a paper or take home exam will be considered the same as sharing an answer in an in-class exam. Using papers from previous terms is plagiarism. Do not use templates from previous courses. You have an obligation to behave in an ethically responsible manner. We have a ZERO TOLERANCE for plagiarism and cheating in this course. Cheaters and plagiarists will be referred to the Dean of Students. We will use the Turnitin.com link from the MYUCLA portal. Student conduct including plagiarism and cheating: http://www.deanofstudents.ucla.edu/integrity.html Plagiarism: To PLAGIARIZE is to "steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own without crediting the source; present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source," (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1973, 870.). Grading Grades will not be given in this course; they will be earned and not be negotiated. You alone will determine your performance in this course. Accordingly, grades will be straight scaled and not curved. Modules will be weighted with regard to the number of weeks they span 2 week labs worth 20%, 3 week labs worth 30%. Grading scale 97-100 A+ 93-96 A 90-92 A- 87-89 B+ 83-86 B 80-82 B- 77-79 C+ 73-76 C 70-72 C- 67-69 D+ 63-66 D 60-63 D- BELOW 60