BIO-100D Explorations in Biology: Neurobiology and Animal Behavior

A thematic course exploring five fundamental features of all biological systems, including organization, information flow, energy and matter, interactions, and evolution. An interdisciplinary study exploring the general principles of the function and organization of nervous systems. Topics include the physical and chemical bases for action potentials, synaptic transmission, and sensory transduction with a special emphasis on a comparative approach to the study of animal behavior and its underlying mechanistic control by the nervous system.

Maximum Enrollment

30

(Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies, Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning.)

Credits

1

Notes

Three hours of class and three hours of laboratory. Not open to students who have taken any other Explorations in Biology course. Admission of non-first year students with permission of the instructor.