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  • Undergraduate Curriculum Development

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  • Core concepts provide a framework for understanding complex phenomena in life sciences.
  • A community-derived project identified eight core concepts for neuroscience.
  • Recent work focuses on utilizing and unpacking these core concepts for educational purposes.

Discussion:

  • Faculty feedback was gathered on preliminary unpacked core concepts (Evolution, Gene-Environment Interactions, Plasticity, Structure-Function Relationship).
  • Feedback was solicited at the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) Workshop and Neuroscience Teaching Conference (NTC).
  • This editorial details the community input received to guide future development.

Key Insights:

  • Community feedback is crucial for refining the unpacking of neuroscience core concepts.
  • The process involves deconstructing core concepts into foundational components.
  • Integration strategies for core concepts in courses and assessments are being developed.

Outlook:

  • Future steps will incorporate community feedback to refine unpacked core concepts.
  • Continued development aims to enhance the utilization of core concepts in neuroscience education.
  • This work supports the standardization and improvement of neuroscience curricula.