UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDEGRADUATE DIVISION

APPLICATION FOR CANDIDACY FOR MASTER OF SCIENCE

IN THE FIELD OF NEUROSCIENCE

Students must obtain required signatures before filing application. Candidates must be registered or using filing fee in quarter in which the degree is to be awarded.

NAME:

Print Name as It Appears on Official Record (First Middle Last)

SID:

PRESENT ADDRESS:

FUTURE ADDRESS:

as of (date):

DEGREES RECEIVED (Dates/Institutions/Locations):

EXPECTED DEGREE DATE: Fall Quarter Winter Quarter Spring Quarter Summer Quarter

STUDENT SIGNATURE

By signing this application, I give UCR permission to publish my name and degree information in official campus Commencement

publications. I do not wish to have my name and degree information published in official campus Commencement publications.

A. Plan I (Thesis) – Proposed TITLE OF THESIS:

THESIS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS (Attach memo of support for Non-Academic Senate members):

1.

Chairperson, please print

2.

(Member, please print)

3.

(Member, please print)

Approved for plan and title of thesis:

Committee Chairperson Signature

B. Plan II (Comprehensive Exam)

Date exam completed (mm/dd/yy):

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Requirements to be Completed

Residence (3qtrs) GPAPrior to Degree Conferral:

Courses Required:100200 18/24Total 36

Date Defense Passed:

Date Thesis Filed:

  1. Admission Deficiencies (if any were present at time of admission, please indicate how they were met):
  1. Course work – 36 total units required.

Plan I – 24 units must be 200-level. A maximum of 12 units from NRSC 297/299 can be used.

Plan II – 18 units must be 200-level. NRSC 297/299 cannot be used.

  1. Core Course Work:
  1. All students must complete NRSC/PSYC 200ABC.
  2. One Research Methods course selected from: CBNS/PSYC 120L, CHEM 125, CHEM 221ABCD, NRSC 201, PHYS 139L, PSYC 211.
  3. Two courses or one course sequence selected from the following: BCH 110ABC, BCH/CHEM 241, BIOL/CMDB 200, BIOL/CMDB 201, BIOL 203, CBNS/PSYC 120, CBNS/PSYC 127, ENTM 201, PSYC 203ABC.
  4. List any additional courses needed to meet 36-unit requirement.

Course / Grade / Units / Quarter
NRSC/PSYC 200A
NRSC/PSYC 200B
NRSC/PSYC 200C
  1. Colloquium in Neuroscience (NRSC/PSYC 287 or CMDB 257) – required each quarter in residence. Explain any exceptions:

Graduate Advisor's SignatureDate

**Please note – The Neuroscience MS is offered as a non-terminal degree and may be awarded only after a PhD student has advanced to candidacy and will not complete the PhD degree.

NRSC-MS (3/2011)