Professor:

Objectives:

To train students in the understanding and analysis of frontier studies in the field of Neuorscience so they can turn them into efficient narrative commentaries. It is to be said, in chronicles focused on disseminating the conquests and challenges of this vibrant area of contemporary research through the generalist media (press, radio and television).
It is often called that the human brain is the last of the frontiers of science. The statement is surely exaggerated but has some point of plausibility. The human brain is an extraordinarily complex and challenging biological device.  It contains the mechanisms that have allowed the human species to introduce a spending novelty into the biosphere, the cumulative and transformed culture. Technology, art and science depended on the brain. That is, the most fruitful attempts to understand and transform the world. During the last decades the advances is the understanding of the gears and the cerebral processes have been solvent and allow to enter, at this point, in the origin and  the particularities of the most sophisticated abilities that show the humans, including the one to ask questions about themselves. The neurosciences constitute a large cantilever company where a multitude of scientific front converges, from physics to psychology or economics, and are one of the fields of research that generate more fascination in the educated public. This is why the scientific essay has neurosciences as one of its most productive fields. I know for this reason that it is worth devoting a course to training in tools of scientific dissemination in a restricted but particularly comprehensive and effervescent field.

After an intensive introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience, students will have to work with recent and human mind. They will have to dissect them thoroughly in order to become chronicles that can be disseminated through the different formats of the general media (press, radio and television). The course will therefore have workshop characteristics in many of its sessions. Students will have to produce a minimum of three chronicles each, based on two articles that will be provided and one that they will have to locate and select on their own. This will form the basis of groundbreaking scientific articles that suppose new shortcuts in the description of the attributes of the evaluation.

This course is preferably aimed at third cycle students and students in the disciplines of basic sciences and health and Journalism and Audiovisual Communication. A good level of English is required.

Places: 25

Opening hours: Monday to Thursday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Fundació Cañada Blanch, in the street Jorge Juan No.4

Price: 50 euros