Department of Brain & Cognitive SCIENCES
Education

Philosophy

BCS Philosophy of Education

The goals of education of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences are to raise neuroscientists who can compete at global level with the following key characteristics.

Global Neuroscientist
  • We aim to educate a neuroscientist who can perform top-notch scientific research and thus can compete at any institution worldwide. In order to achieve the goal, we envision to raise a neuroscientist with the following key qualities through our departmental educational system :
    • Mastery of key theoretical issues in his/her research area
    • Mastery of fundamental as well as advanced research techniques
    • Communication skills that will allow freely exchanging ideas with foreign researchers
    • Responsibility for the academic community and public by holding high standard for research ethics
Creative Neuroscientist
  • We seek to create an educational environment in which a student learns how to approach a problem from creative and original angles in independent ways. A creative researcher will be raised by teaching students to find a good research question and not to be afraid of trying new approaches to solve the problem.
Interdisciplinary Neuroscientist
  • We expect graduate students and young investigators educated through our department to be able to solve a scientific research problem by using interdisciplinary research methods in complimentary ways. An interdisciplinary researcher raised through our education curriculum should be recognized as follows :
    • A scientist who is knowledgeable about other fields outside of his/her own immediate research area
    • A scientist who is knowledgeable about strength and weakness of different approaches
    • A scientist who knows how to deploy multilevel approaches to a common problem
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