Catalog Course Description

Neuroethologists study neural systems by combining behavior and neuroscience to understand the neural mechanism that have evolved in various animals to solve particular problems encountered in their environmental niches. This comparative approach that emphasizes how information is processed and transformed by the brain is particularly powerful for understanding neural systems. In this course, you will learn important concepts in ethology, sensory systems, motor systems and neural plasticity and development by studying the behavior and brains of animals such as crickets, lobsters, barn-owls, honey-bees, echolocating bats, electric fishes and songbirds.

Fall Term

1 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week and 3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 8 hours of Outside Work Hours per week.

Spring Term

1 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week and 3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 8 hours of Outside Work Hours per week.

Integrative Biology C147/Psychology C115C