314: Learning and Memory. Goal: To provide students with a clear and comprehensible integration of classic and contemporary achievements in the field of learning and memory. Content: Principles of respondent and operant conditioning as well as memory and cognition in terms of possible mechanisms, current research, the theory. Taught: Spring. Prerequisites: PSY 101 and MAT 220; PSY 305 or BIO 203; or permission of program director. Credit: 4 hours; cross-listed as PSY 314. 315: Animal Behavior. Goal: To familiarize the student with the biological study of animal behavior. To introduce the student to the major historical and contemporary perspectives of behavioral study. To allow the student to practice field and laboratory methods of behavioral sampling and analysis. Content: A practice-oriented survey of contemporary approaches to animal behavior, including behavioral genetics, behavioral development, neuroethology, behavioral endocrinology, behavioral ecology and evolution, ethology and sociobiology. Taught: Fall. Alternate years. Prerequisites: BIO 103 or 110; BIO 203 or PSY 305. Credit: 4 hours; cross-listed as BIO 315. 325: Neurobiology. Goal: To familiarize the student with the theoretical bases and experimental methods of modern neurobiology, appropriate to studying the structure and function of individual nerve cells and small neuronal systems. Content: A practice-oriented introduction to cellular and systems neurobiology. Laboratory exercise and discussion topics will include electrophysiological, histophysiological, and neurochemical techniques, neuronal membrane dynamics, synaptic function and plasticity, sensory coding, sensorimotor coordination, central pattern generation, and network function. Methods of study will include electrophysiological recording from invertebrate and embryonic vertebrate preparations, neurochemical and microsurgical manipulation, computer and electronic simulations, and correlational network analysis. Taught: Fall. Alternate years Prerequisites: BIO 103 or 110; BIO 203 or PSY 305. Credit: 4 hours; cross-listed as BIO 325. 341: Developmental Biology. Goal: To introduce the student to the processes and structures involved in the ontogeny of animals. Content: The development of animals from gametogenesis through fertilization, gastrulation, and organogenesis, including intra-and extracellular regulation and control of developmental mechanisms and structures. A comparison of the developmental processes of protostomes and deuterostomes. Taught: Spring Alternate years. Prerequisites: BIO 110, 112, and 203. Credit: 4 hours; cross-listed as BIO 341.
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