Neuroscience and Behavior

Course Descriptions

201b. Neuroscience and Behavior (1)

A multidisciplinary approach to the methods, issues, empirical findings and neuroscience and behavior literature. The course explores selected topics from a variety of theoretical and empirical models, from behavioral, evolutionary, social/environmental, physiological and cellular/molecular levels of analysis. The ways in which the different methods of analysis inform each other are a focus of the course. Neuroscience and Behavior faculty.

Prerequisites: Biology 105, Biology 106, Psychology 105 or 106, and Psychology 241 or 243.

290. Field Work (1/2 or 1)

By permission of the adviser and the instructor who supervises the work.

298. Independent Work (1/2 or 1)

By permission of the adviser and the instructor who supervises the work. Library, field or laboratory projects. By permission of the Neuroscience and Behavior faculty.

301a. Seminar in Neuroscience and Behavior (1)

Explorations in the primary literature of topics to be selected annually. Neuroscience and Behavior faculty.

Prerequisite: by permission of instructor.

399. Senior Independent Work (1/2 or 1)

By permission of the adviser and the instructor who supervises the work. Library, field, or laboratory projects, by permission of the Neuroscience and Behavior faculty.

Approved Courses

Intermediate

Psychology 211 Perception and Action (1)

Psychology 213 Language (1)

Psychology 215 Knowledge and Cognition (1)

Psychology 221 Learning and Behavior (1)

Psychology 223 Comparative Psychology (1)

Psychology 229 Research Methods in Learning and Behavior (1)

Psychology 249 Research Methods in Physiological Psychology (1)

Psychology 262 Abnormal Psychology (1)

Psychology 264 Behavioral Genetics (1)

Biology 226 Animal Structure and Diversity (1)

Biology 228 Animal Physiology (1)

Biology 232 Developmental Biology (1)

Biology 238 Principles of Genetics (1)

Biology 260 Comparative and Functional Vertebrate Anatomy (1)

Biology 272 Biochemistry (1)

Advanced

Entry into particular 300-level courses may be constrained by prerequisites: see course descriptions for the individual courses listed under Biology and Psychology.

Psychology 300 Advanced Methods of Statistical Analysis (1)

Psychology 321 Seminar in Animal Learning and Behavior (1)

Psychology 323 Seminar in Comparative Psychology (1)

Psychology 341 Seminar in Physiological Psychology (1)

Psychology 343 Seminar on States of Consciousness (1)

Psychology 362 Seminar in Psychopathology (1)

Biology 316 Neurobiology (1)

Biology 323 Cell Biology (1)

Biology 324 Molecular Biology (1)

Biology 340 Animal Behavior (1)

Biology 350 Evolutionary Biology (1)

Biology 353 Bioinformatics (1)

Biology 382 The Life of Aquatic Vertebrates (1)