ARTICLE Building Neural Networks Within the Academy: Connecting Neuroscience to Other Disciplines

Never before in human history has there been a more exciting time to be studying neuroscience. By extension, the opportunities have never been greater to examine how contemporary findings in neuroscience might relate to other areas of human inquiry. Over the last two decades I have participated in a number of formal and informal attempts to connect neuroscience and psychology to other academic disciplines in the context of interdisciplinary courses. Herein lies a brief overview of my experiences with these undertakings. Key words: neuroscience; interdisciplinary courses; undergraduate education A little over a decade ago several of us faculty at Carleton embarked on an unusual interdisciplinary teaching experiment, one that none of us had undertaken before, at least not in the form we eventually adopted. Four of us co-taught a thematic course entitled Emotion and Intellect, which had four separate sections of first-year undergraduate students, each one led by a different facult