Schools with neuroscience and sexuality

College Search & Selection
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<p>so I am a high school senior interested in researching gender and sexuality from a neuroscience standpoint. does anyone know of any colleges with a minor in gender and sexuality type studies that still has a pretty strong neuroscience program that doesn't cost too much? like less than <25k a year (I live in GA). I know its oddly specific but i am having trouble finding something </p>

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<p>this is an interesting connection you’re drawing, and something that is being addressed from both sides of the research aisle. one could look for unis that offer interdisciplinary neuro and GS courses, such as Emory:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nbb.emory.edu”>http://www.nbb.emory.edu</a></p>

<p>or one could look for neurosci researchers who are addressing neuro and gender in their labs, which would be a great many of them. Neurosci, genetics, and the biology of gender seem to go hand in hand. The gender studies researchers who are addressing neurosci issues and the neurosci people addressing GS (as opposed to gender) are fewer. That might be where you come in.</p>

<p>If the online info provided by colleges isn’t that helpful, reach out to the people you do find who are combining GS and neuro and ask them for suggestions about other colleges which are doing the same. Check the women’s colleges, too.</p>

<p>Here’s an article that you might find interesting, written about a course at Denison U that the author taught:</p>

<p><a href=“Sex, Gender, and the Brain: A Non-Majors Course Linking Neuroscience and Women’s Studies - PMC”>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3592696/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Fascinating topic, yet the knife fights that break out in the faculty lounge between the PC crowd and the hard science crowd must be amusing to watch.</p>

<p>“It’s a social construct!”
“No, it’s a genetic trait!”
“You’re both wrong, it’s environment!”</p>

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<p>Nah, they don’t even talk to each other. The dirty secret of universities: people with offices next door to each other don’t know what the neighbor is doing. </p>

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<p>Do you qualify for financial aid? If so, perhaps Oberlin. Excellent neurocience and gender studies.</p>