Teaching Neuroimmunology to Undergraduate Students: Resource for Full Course or Modular Implementation. 2021

Junryo Watanabe
Biology Department, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY 13820.

This paper describes a course I designed to teach neuroimmunology to undergraduate students. In this course I incorporated many active learning strategies to help make it a student-centered class, where they developed communication skills, while reading and analyzing primary literature articles. As the field of neuroimmunology is relatively new, most textbooks in the field approached the subject from the perspective of neurology and autoimmune diseases. Therefore, I used reading, analysis, and student-led presentation of primary papers in the classroom to not only develop critical thinking and application of the scientific method, but also oral communication skills. Other activities such as writing New York Times-style articles and literature review papers were employed to develop written communications skills. The goal of this article is to provide a reference tool for instructors trained in neuroscience to deploy an entire course on neuroimmunology or select a module or a single paper to incorporate into their existing course to offer students a taste for neuroimmunology.

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