Assignment

Assignment

Neuroscience
Assignment: Resilience Club Applications

Course: Neuroscience and Behavior Lab
Institution: University of Notre Dame
Faculty: Diane Lane

Assignment: Resilience Club “Applications”
If you struggled with a laboratory assignment, you have the option to refl ect on your diffi culties and join the Resilience Club. Filling out an application for the club will provide you with 2.5 points of extra credit that will be applied to the lab assignment described in the application. The “application” is a guided written refl ection on any assignments that you found to be challenging, where you can think about what went wrong with the lab and consider different approaches for the lab. You can complete this application for any lab throughout the semester.

Application Instructions

  1. Describe what went wrong.
    • Which lab or assignment you were working on.
    • What “should have” happened with the lab.
    • What happened when you conducted the lab/experiment.
  2. Describe what you did to fix things.
  3. Did your fix work?
  4. How did you feel during the lab?

About 

How many students are in the class? Approximately 30

What is the teaching modality (in person, virtual, hybrid)? In-person lab

What grade level/year are the majority of students? Sophomores and juniors

Where does this course fall in the curriculum? (Is it in the core or organized within a particular course of study?) The course is a mandatory laboratory course for the Neuroscience major; it is a hands-on technical lab course that some students fi nd challenging.

What virtues are integrated into the course? patience, resilience, humility

Neuroscience
Assignment: Resilience Club Applications

Course: Neuroscience and Behavior Lab
Institution: University of Notre Dame
Faculty: Diane Lane

Assignment: Resilience Club “Applications”
If you struggled with a laboratory assignment, you have the option to refl ect on your diffi culties and join the Resilience Club. Filling out an application for the club will provide you with 2.5 points of extra credit that will be applied to the lab assignment described in the application. The “application” is a guided written refl ection on any assignments that you found to be challenging, where you can think about what went wrong with the lab and consider different approaches for the lab. You can complete this application for any lab throughout the semester.

Application Instructions

  1. Describe what went wrong.
    • Which lab or assignment you were working on.
    • What “should have” happened with the lab.
    • What happened when you conducted the lab/experiment.
  2. Describe what you did to fix things.
  3. Did your fix work?
  4. How did you feel during the lab?

About 

How many students are in the class? Approximately 30

What is the teaching modality (in person, virtual, hybrid)? In-person lab

What grade level/year are the majority of students? Sophomores and juniors

Where does this course fall in the curriculum? (Is it in the core or organized within a particular course of study?) The course is a mandatory laboratory course for the Neuroscience major; it is a hands-on technical lab course that some students fi nd challenging.

What virtues are integrated into the course? patience, resilience, humility