The two sections below includes the core courses, senior seminar, connections in behavioral biology and all courses that can satisfy the three biobehavioral (BEHB-BIOBEH tag) and two social science (BEHB-SOCSCI tag) upper-level requirements. Note some BEHB tags have changed, be sure to examine the most recent year before selecting courses.

Please check the BS requirements page to get a full list of required or optional courses, or consult the online course catalogue for complete course information.

Additional course registration information can be found on the Student Information System website.  

Behavioral Biology Core Courses (Required of All Majors)

Core courses generally run the same times every semester, so are not included in the table below.

• 200.141 Foundations of Brain, Behavior, and Cognition, Fall and Spring
• 290.101 Human Origins, Spring
• 200.208 Animal Behavior, Fall
• 080.250 Neuroscience Lab, Fall and Spring

Fall 2024

Course Number	Concentration	Course Name	Instructor	Day/Time	Limit	PreReqs Brief
AS.020.369	Biobehavioral	Computational Approaches to Population Genetics	Bortvin	TThr 3 - 4:15pm	16	none
AS.020.374	Biobehavioral	Comparative Physiology	Coppola	TTh 12:00-1:15	90	Biochemistry
AS.050.236	Biobehavioral	Neurolinguistics	Yarmolinskaya	TTh 1:30-2:45	19
AS.050.244	Biobehavioral	Cognitive Neuroscience Lab	Li	TThr 9 - 10:15am	24	none
AS.050.358	Biobehavioral	Language &Thought	Landau	W 1:30 - 4	15	Language and Mind or Syntax I or Phonology I
AS.080.250	CORE	Neuroscience Laboratory	Trageser/ Sterbing-D'Angelo/Ross	T 1:30-4:20 W 1:30-4:20 Th 1:30-4:20 F 1:30-4:20	18 (4 sections)	AS.080.306 OR AS.200.141
AS.080.301	Biobehavioral	Behavioral Assessment of Animal Models of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders	Smith	MWF 12:00-12:50	25	FBBC or Neuro Cellular/Systems 2 or AS.050.105
AS.080.308	Biobehavioral	Neuroeconomics	Trageser	WF 12:00-1:15	70	FBBC or Neuro Cellular/Systems 2 or Intro to the Human Brain
AS.080.309	Social	Neuroesthetics: How the Arts and Aesthetic Experiences Advance Health, Wellbeing and Learning	Garrett, Magsamen, Mason	Th 4:30 - 7	30	AS.200.141 OR AS.080.306
AS.080.349	Biobehavioral	Neural Oscillations, Cognition and Disease (writing intensive)	Ross	TTh 12 - 1:15pm	20	FBBC or Neuro Cellular/Systems 2 or AS.050.203
AS.150.219	Social	Introduction to Bioethics (writing intensive)	Bok	MW 12:00-12:50 F Lecture Various sections	16 (12 sections)
AS.196.302	Social	Science and Democracy	Levine	TTh 9:00-10:15	60
AS.200.141	CORE	Foundations of Brain, Behavior and Cognition	Ross	TTh 9-10:15	200
AS.200.222	Social	Positive Psychology	Halberda	TTh 3:00-4:15	100
AS.200.238	Biobehavioral	Primate Minds	Krupenye	TTh 3-4:15	40	AS.200.141 OR AS.200.101 OR AS.200.110 OR AS.200.132 OR AS.200.133 OR AS.050.102 OR AS.050.105 OR AS.150.245 OR Instructor Approval
AS.200.329	Biobehavioral	Real World Human Data: Analysis and Visualization	Chen	Th 1:30 - 4:00pm	19
AS.200.337	Social	Origins of the Social Mind	Krupenye	TTh 10:30 - 11:45am	15	AS.200.132 OR AS.200.133 OR AS.200.110 OR AS.200.141 OR AS.050.102 OR AS.050.105
AS.200.376	Biobehavioral	Neuropyschopharmacology	Sterbing-D'Angelo	TTh 10:30-11:45am	50	FBBC OR Neuro Cellular/Systems 2 OR (Cell Bio AND Intro to Human Brain)
AS.200.380	Biobehavioral	Neurobiology of Human Cognition	Bedny	T 1:30 - 4:00pm	50	FBBC OR AS.200.312 OR AS.080.105 OR AS.080.203 OR AS.050.203 OR AS.050.312
AS.250.351	Biobehavioral	Reproductive Physiology	Zirkin	T 3:00-4:40	100	Juniors and Seniors
AS.270.338	Biobehavioral	Field Methods in Ecology	Avolio/Szlavecz	F 1:30 - 4:00	10	AS.270.202 Note: Students must have completed Lab Safety training prior to registering for this class.
AS.280.335	Social	The Environment and Your Health	Bressler, Latshaw	TTh 3:00-4:15	119	AS.280.101 OR AS.270.103 Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores Only.
AS.280.478	Social	Communicating Climate Change: Creative Approaches for Action	Tharmarajah	TTh 1:30 - 2:45	19	none
AS.290.301	Biobehavioral	Topics in Human Evolutionary Biology	Staff	MW 12 - 1:15	16	AS.290.101
AS.290.303	Biobehavioral	Animal Behavior and Communication Lab (writing intensive)	Bohn	TTh 3-4:15	19	Animal Behavior OR AS.200.344; Juniors and Seniors Only
AS.290.420	Social	Human Sexual Orientation	Kraft	T 1:30 - 4:00PM	30	Restricted to: Public Health Studies, BIO, Behavioral Biology, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, Studies of Women, Gender & Sexuality, Medicine, Science and the Humanities, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Sociology. Students may receive credit for AS.200.204[+] or AS.290.330[+] or AS.290.420, but only ONE can count towards the upper level SOCSCI
AS.290.490	SEMINAR	Senior Seminar: Behavioral Biology	Bohn	W 10-10:50	12	FBBC and Animal Behavior and Human Origins or instructor permission.
AS.360.339	Social	Planets, Life and the Universe	DiRuggiero/Norman	MWF 11 - 11:50	30	Students may not register for this class if they have already received credit for AS.020.334 OR AS.020.616 OR AS.171.333 OR AS.171.699 OR AS 270.335 OR AS.360.671