<p>"A relatively new field of study, Neuroscience combines the fields of biology, psychology, chemistry, engineering, and others to come to a more specific understanding of how brain structures influence behavior." </p>
<p>If I plan to major in this, will it significantly knock out some of the pre-med biology and chemistry courses?</p>
<p>BTW it's listed under the "social sciences" of the school I'm going to...</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of neuroscience as a social science, always as a sub-set of biology or biological sciences. Generally speaking it will include most of your pre-med pre-reqs, but that’s never a good reason to choose a major.</p>
<p>I’m actually interested in it 
surprising, i know lol</p>
<p>Yeah, I would be SO interested in neuroscience if it were less science-y based.</p>
<p>neuroscience as a social science? that makes me want to see the neuroscience major course requirements for that school. generally, neuroscience should be considered a science discipline. plenty of pre-meds major in neuroscience. </p>
<p>and um, less science-y neuroscience would probably be psychology.</p>
<p>It’s probably similar to the way they’ve done it at my school… our actual major is “behavioral neuroscience” so it’s core sciences, a handful of neuro classes, some bio electives + some psych electives. I’m just assuming it’d be similar at other schools, even if it’s listed under social science, you’re going to need all the standard core sciences (means you’ll be covered for pre-med reqs) to really understand the subject. It’s also not uncommon for neuro classes to fall into the psychology department (psychobiology, psychopharmacology, biological basis of mental illness), so just because you’ll take some “social sciences” doesn’t mean they won’t involve biology and chem. </p>
<p>And yes… less science-y neuroscience would just be psych, so I think you’re safe choosing a neuro major regardless how your school chooses to label it.</p>