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...like McDermott, some students interested in neuroscience view the MBB track as a limitation...
Regarding the MBB track, biology concentrator Nickolas D. Juliano '96 says, "It just seems like everything you would do if you were interested in the neurosciences and with a little bit less choice." Juliano, who says he's met most of the MBB requirements anyway, admits the MBB track does provide a cohesion with other neuroscience majors that he lacked...
This very cohesion is what those involved in the MBB tracks like to refer to as "value added"--or what students will gain by joining the track. Besides providing students an opportunity to meet and converse with others interested in MBB, the track also promises to broaden understanding of the mind, brain and behavior...
Harriman says the tracks give students more flexibility to amass concentration credit for courses that fall within the rubric of MBB but may be offered outside of their departments. For example, a biology concentrator can receive credit for taking abnormal psychology, just as a psychology concentrator in the MBB track can receive concentration credit for pre-med requirements...
Rather than being forced to hunt through the course catalog to find courses relevant to neuroscience, students in the MBB program now have such courses at their fingertips. In reference to the computational neuroscience track, Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences Stuart M. Shieber says, "People with MBB interest would have been able to major in computer science anyway, but the track puts in one place courses that are pertinent...