Neuroscience Methods

I am torn between two potential syllabi for my Fall graduate course, Neuroscience Methods. The course has been taught in the past as essentially a grantsmanship class with a heavy dose of critical scientific thinking along with experimental design.

The other idea is to actually present a survey of extant neuroscience methods, with the notion that, these days, in order to be a truly successful investigator, one needs to at least be able to understand how disparate methods can be deployed to test hypotheses. So in this case, the syllabus would be focused on techniques.

I’d value feedback from our students (and others) on which might be more valuable.

Jim