Belmont University’s Department of Psychological Science and Neuroscience is seeking a graduate student (with MS) or post-doctoral fellow interested in teaching the lab-based Introduction to Neuroscience (NEU2080) class for Neuroscience major and minor undergraduates. Qualified individuals should have an MS or PhD degree, and ideally a background in psychology, neuroscience, or biology. The course uses the Introduction to Brain and Behavior by Kolb and Wishaw as the required textbook and covers the basics of neuron signaling and transmission with some coverage of sensory, motor, and cognitive systems.
- The class will meet on Tuesday/Thursday from 8-9:15am and the lab is 2 hours on Wednesday from 8-9:50am
- The semester runs August 19- December 14, 2026
- Pay: $1,150/workload hour for a 4 hours course will be $4,600
Example Syllabus from Spring 2026:
NEU2080_IntroNeuro_Syllabus_Spring 2026
Course description:
Students will be exposed to lectures and laboratory activities engaging biological and psychological frameworks of the nervous system. Students will be introduced to the biological machinery (cells, neural networks) making-up the nervous system, brain/cranial structures and basic functions (physiology) and complex neural systems related to sensation/perception, motor movement, attention and memory, stress, sexual development, emotion, aging and addiction.
More about Belmont can be found here https://www.belmont.edu/about/
If you are an international student or postdoctoral fellow, your visa status may affect your work eligibility. Please verify in advance with the appropriate immigration office at Vanderbilt.
For more information, please contact:
Tim Schoenfeld, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair
timothy.schoenfeld@belmont.edu
Department of Psychological Science and Neuroscience
Belmont University
Nashville, TN, 37212