@MiCh408 : It helps to remember that NBB is more of an interdisciplinary PROGRAM and not a department. What makes it a bit better than many of the neuroscience majors at comparable private universities is that they do indeed host their own core courses and several of their own electives (at many places neuro major is basically a concentration within the biology department so the courses offered take on whatever flavor is dominant in courses in the biology department. NBB has its own teaching culture in its courses AND you get to take tons of electives elsewhere).
Many of the upper division psychology classes (tons which are AMAZING) and even science/neuroscience heavy (there is a brain imaging class for example taught by Dr. Berns who is awesome. Either way, Emory’s psychology undergraduate program is not a stereotypical program that is extremely biased towards social psychology, it is more oriented towards psychobiology and neuroscience). Those classes want 111 and 110. It helps not having to take both so you can more easily get to the interesting courses. If you took psychology 110 in the fall for example, you get access to several serious 200 and even some 300 levels courses afterwards (so as early as spring of frosh year) because you already have the 111 credit. Also, the more intense psychology courses are great preparation for some NBB core courses. Edward’s psyche 110 is strikingly similar in content to NBB 302 for example (and likely more rigorous in some areas) and either section would help with NBB 201.
Think longterm…it is hard, but try, especially with a major like NBB 201 which is interdisciplinary yet flexible (can choose electives from tons of depts) and jam-packed (need several intro. courses in other STEM subjects just for NBB 301, plus may need certain courses in departments outside of NBB to gain access to certain electives) at the same time.
*Also: Psyche 111 as an HSC: http://atlas.college.emory.edu/schedules/index.php?select=HSC