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Animal Behavior (320-0-24)

Instructors

Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy

Bita Firouzan

Meeting Info

Frances Searle Building 2378: Tues, Thurs 2:00PM - 3:20PM

Overview of class

This course will introduce students to the field of animal behavior from the neuroscience perspective. We will focus on biological activities essential for survival, including foraging, communication, migration, predator-prey interactions, mating, and parental care. Neural circuits and the signaling mechanisms underlying these behaviors will be discussed in-depth.

Registration Requirements

Prerequisites: Students must have completed NEUROSCI 202-0 and NEUROSCI 206-0; or NEUROSCI 311-0 and NEUROSCI 206-0; or BIOL_SCI 302-0.

Learning Objectives

1). Develop an understanding of the diversity of vertebrate behavior and its neurobiological underpinnings.
2). Become adept at reading and critically evaluating primary literature and reviews.
3). Develop an ability to generalize neurobiological principles and mechanisms across systems.
4). Develop novel hypotheses on topics in the area of neurobiology of animal behavior and learn to align them with experimental approaches that can be used to test the proposed ideas.

Teaching Method

Lectures and discussions, with student presentations. Meets twice a week (2 x 80 minutes).

Evaluation Method

One 7 page long research paper (25%), midterm (25%) and final (35%) exams, class presentations (10%) and participation (5%).

Class Materials (Required)

Animal Behavior, 12th Edition. By Dustin R. Rubenstein. ISBN-13: 978-0197564912 ISBN-10: 0197564917 cost paperback new from $108.58 on Amazon. May also be purchased from publisher: Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press



Other reading materials will be posted on Canvas.

Class Materials (Suggested)

None

Class Notes

Prerequisites: Students must have completed NEUROSCI 202-0 and NEUROSCI 206-0; or NEUROSCI 311-0 and NEUROSCI 206-0; or BIOL_SCI 302-0.

Class Attributes

SoC Individual and Social Behavior Distro
SoC Mathematics, Science, and Technology Distro

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: NEUROSCI 202-0 and NEUROSCI 206-0; or NEUROSCI 311-0 and NEUROSCI 206-0; or BIOL_SCI 302-0.