Art & Science of Learning

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

In 1615, Francis Bacon said that “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education.” In this course, we’ll weave together neuroscience with education research, narrative accounts, outings across London, and personal reflection to explore the basis of that statement, and to understand how you learn more broadly. The course will unfold as a tour of the learning brain, focusing on how different regions encode and use information and what that means for your own learning behaviors. Class sessions will incorporate discussion, activities, short lectures, and field trips; readings will be drawn from the primary neuroscientific literature as well as a range of disciplines and genres.