Graduate Certificate in Neuroscience (Learning)

The Graduate Certificate in Neuroscience (Learning) is an 18-unit program offered by the Faculty of Health Sciences. The course is offered in internal mode and can be taken part-time over 2 semesters.

The program is designed to equip professionals working in a range of fields with a basic knowledge of modern neuroscience delivered in a context relevant to their professional practice. The programs draw on the professional and educational expertise of members of the South Australian Neuroscience Institute at Flinders University, the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia.

• Admission requirements
• Course aims
• Learning outcomes
• Program of study
  
  

Admission requirements

Applicants must normally hold an approved degree or equivalent qualification from an approved tertiary institution. No prior knowledge or experience in neuroscience or any other field of science is required. It will be expected that students enrolling in the Graduate Certificate in Neuroscience (Learning) will have professional experience in some field of education, but this will not be a formal prerequisite for enrolling in the program.

Course aims

The Graduate Certificate in Neuroscience (Learning) is designed to equip professionals working in a range of fields with a basic knowledge of modern neuroscience delivered in a context relevant to their professional practice.

The program focuses on the application of principles of modern neuroscience to understanding how people learn in the classroom environment. Therefore, the overall educational aim of the program is to provide a framework for:

• understanding the principles of modern neuroscience
• critically appraising the neuroscientific literature as it applies to learning
• application of the principles of neuroscience to understanding classroom practice and behaviour.
  

Learning outcomes

At the completion of this course, it is expected that students will be able to:

• demonstrable capacity to interpret a range of behaviours, especially those relating to learning, in the context of concepts of modern neuroscience
• demonstrable ability to apply concepts of modern neuroscience to generate proposals to critically evaluate and potentially modify learning environments and behaviour
• demonstrable skills in the critical appraisal of neuroscientific literature in the public domain, especially as it relates to learning
• demonstrable understanding of the core concepts of modern neuroscience from molecular and cellular levels through to the neuroscientific bases of behaviour. These concepts include, but are not limited to, neurotransmission and its interactions with drugs; processing of sensory information; generation and control of motor activity; different types of memory; neural development and its relation to the acquisition of behaviour.
  

Program of study

To qualify for the Graduate Certificate in Neuroscience (Learning), a student must complete 18 units with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic, according to the program of study below.

Core - Year 1 topics

 NEUR8001  Sensing and Moving, Perceiving and Acting  (4.5 units)
 NEUR8002  The Learning Brain  (4.5 units)
 NEUR8003  Knowing What We Know: The Neuroscience of Cognition  (4.5 units)
 NEUR8004  The Behaving Brain  (4.5 units)