{"id":94,"date":"2015-03-20T02:30:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T06:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioral-bio\/?page_id=94"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:50:26","slug":"courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/the-major\/courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Core and Elective Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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) elective course requirements.&nbsp;Note some BEHB tags have changed, be sure to examine the most recent year before selecting courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please check the requirements page to get a full list of required or optional courses, or consult the online <a href=\"https:\/\/e-catalogue.jhu.edu\/arts-sciences\/full-time-residential-programs\/degree-programs\/behavioral-biology\/behavioral-biology-bachelor-arts\/\">course catalogue<\/a> for complete course information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional course registration information can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sis.jhu.edu\/classes\/\">Student Information System website<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Behavioral Biology Core Courses <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Core courses are required of all majors, and generally run the same times every semester. They are not included in the table below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>200.141 Foundations of Brain, Behavior, and Cognition, Fall and Spring<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>290.101 Human Origins,&nbsp;Fall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>200.208 Animal Behavior, Spring<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>080.250 Neuroscience Lab,&nbsp;Fall and Spring<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Animal Behavior and Communication Lab (AS.290.303) Fall or Behavioral Evolution Lab (AS.290.306) Spring (<strong>required for students graduating 2027 or later<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fall 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-35\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-35\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Course Number<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Concentration<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Course Name<\/th><th class=\"column-4\">Instructor <\/th><th class=\"column-5\">Day\/Time<\/th><th class=\"column-6\">Writing<\/th><th class=\"column-7\">PreReqs Brief<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.004.321<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Social<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Writing Methods: Science in Situ - Effective and Meaningful Science Communication<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Brodsky, Anne-Elizabeth Murdy; Pavesich, Matthew; Thyagarajan, Sunita; Wilbanks, Rebecca<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Th 1:30-4<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">W<\/td><td class=\"column-7\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.020.374<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Biobehavioral<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Comparative Physiology <\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Coppola<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">TTh 12:00-1:15<\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\">AS.020.305 Biochemistry, *can only be counted as an upper level OR with a lab for the biology requirement<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.050.236<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Biobehavioral<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Neurolinguistics<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Yarmolinskaya<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">TTh 1:30-2:45<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">W<\/td><td class=\"column-7\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.080.301<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Biobehavioral<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Behavioral Assessment of Animal Models<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Smith<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">MWF 12-12:50;       <\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\"> AS.200.141 FBBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.080.308<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Biobehavioral<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Neuroecomics<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Trageser<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">TTh 12:00PM- 1:15PM<br \/>\n<\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\"> AS.200.141 FBBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.080.309<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Social<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Neuroesthetics: How the Arts and Aesthetic Experiences Advance Health, Wellbeing and Learning<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Stuart, Magsamen, Lynn, Keely<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Th 4:30 - 7<\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\"> AS.200.141 FBBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.080.349<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Biobehavioral<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Neural Oscillations, Cognition and Disease<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Ross<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">TTh 12-1:15<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">W<\/td><td class=\"column-7\"> AS.200.141 FBBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.080.376<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Biobehavioral<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Neuropsychopharmacology<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Baraban<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">TTh 3-4:15<\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\"> AS.200.141 FBBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.180.389<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Social<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Social Policy Implications of Behavioral Economics<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Papageorge<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">TTh 9-10:15<\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\">AS.180.301 and AS.180.334<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.196.302<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Social<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Science &amp; Democracy<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Levine<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">TTh 9-10:15<\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.197.330<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Social<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Social Networks<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Yavas<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">M 3 - 5:30<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">W<\/td><td class=\"column-7\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-13\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.200.141<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">CORE<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Foundations of Brain Behavior and Cognition<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Ross<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">TTh 9 - 10:15 AM<\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-14\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.200.222<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Social<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Positive Psychology<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Halberda<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">TTh 3:00-4:15<\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-15\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.200.322<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Biobehavioral<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Clinical Neuropsychology<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Rickards<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">T 5-7:30<\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\">Juniors and Seniors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-16\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.200.334 <\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Biobehavioral<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Human Memory Psychology<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Chen<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Th 2:30-5<\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-17\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.270.202<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Biobehavioral<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Introduction to Ecology<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Avolio<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">TTh 10:30-11:45 <\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\">Intro to Global Environmental Change or General Biology I<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-18\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.270.317<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Biobehavioral<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Conservation Biology<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Burgess<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">MW 12 - 1:15<\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-19\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.270.406<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Biobehavioral<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Deciphering the History of Life<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Wiemann, Jasmina<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">M  3:00PM- 4:15PM - Lecture -  Homewood Campus<br \/>\nOlin 247<br \/>\nW 12:00PM- 1:15PM - Lab -  Homewood Campus<br \/>\nOlin 204<br \/>\n<\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\">3 upper level courses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-20\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.290.101<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">CORE<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Human Origins<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Gallup<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">TTH 12 - 1:15 + Friday Section<\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-21\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">AS.290.303<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Biobehavioral\/CORE<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Animal Behavior and Communication Lab<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Bohn<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">W 2:30 - 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