Animal Behavior

Bloomington

Director
Associate Professor Emelia Martins

Departmental E-mail
cisab@indiana.edu

Departmental URL
www.indiana.edu/~animal

Graduate Faculty
Admission Requirements
Ph.D. Minor in Animal Behavior
Area Certificate in Animal Behavior
Courses
Cross-Listed Courses

Graduate Faculty

(An asterisk [*] denotes associate membership in University Graduate School faculty.)

Professors
Jeffrey R. Alberts (Psychology), Edmund D. Brodie III (Biology), Ellen D. Ketterson (Biology), Curtis M. Lively (Biology), Val Nolan Jr. (Emeritus, Biology), Milos Novotny (Chemistry), George V. Rebec (Program in Neural Science, Psychology), Dale R. Sengelaub (Program in Neural Science, Psychology), Joseph E. Steinmetz (Program in Neural Science, Psychology), Roderick A. Suthers (Medical Sciences, Neural Science), William D. Timberlake (Psychology), Michael J. Wade (Biology)

Associate Professors
Preston E. Garraghty* (Neural Science, Psychology), Kevin D. Hunt (Anthropology), Emelia P. Martins (Biology)

Assistant Professors
Gregory D. Demas (Biology), Sumit Dhar (Speech and Hearing Sciences), Troy G. Smith (Biology)

Academic Advisor
Associate Professor Emelia P. Martins, Jordan 136, (812) 856-5840

Adjunct Professors
Peter Cherbas (Biology), Andy Clark (Philosophy, Cognitive Science), Robert de Ruyter van Steveninck (Physics), Robert DeVoe (Emeritus, Optometry), Elisabeth Lloyd (History and Philosophy of Science), Craig E. Nelson (Biology), Rudolph Raff (Biology), J. C. Randolph (School of Public and Environmental Affairs), Kathy D. Schick (Anthropology), Esther Thelen (Psychology), Nicholas Toth (Anthropology), Meredith J. West (Psychology)

Adjunct Associate Professors
Henry D. Prange (Medical Sciences), Laura L. Scheiber (Anthropology), S. Holly Stocking (School of Journalism)

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Whitney M. (Reilly) Schlegel (Medical Sciences)

Adjunct Associate Scientist
Stephanie Sanders (The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction)

Adjunct Senior Scientist
Andrew P. King* (Psychology)

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Admission Requirements

Students must be admitted to a Ph.D. program in the Department of Biology, the Department of Psychology, or the Program in Neural Science or other related departments or programs (e.g., Program in Medical Sciences, Anthropology). They must also apply to the Program in Animal Behavior.

Students should select an advisory committee made up of at least three members of the graduate faculty. For students whose home department or program is biology, at least one member of the advisory committee from the Department of Psychology or the Program in Neural Science is expected. For students whose home department or program is the Department of Psychology or the Program in Neural Science, at least one member of the advisory committee from biology is expected. At least two of the student's committee members must be members of the Program in Animal Behavior.

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Ph.D. Minor in Animal Behavior

Course Requirements
The minor in animal behavior requires the following courses: L567; N500 or M555; P504 or P527; and A501. A500 and A502 are recommended.

Examination
As required by home department or program.

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Area Certificate in Animal Behavior

Course Requirements
The requirements for the Area Certificate in Animal Behavior include all of the requirements of the minor, plus A502, one additional semester of A501 and one additional course from the approved list, including L581, Z540, P548, P526, or P717.

Examination
As required by home department or program.

Statistics Requirement
As required by home department or program.

Thesis
Required.

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Courses

A500 Introduction to Animal Behavior Research (1 cr.) Introduces students to research opportunities in animal behavior. Local researchers will present their recent research efforts, emphasizing the integrative aspects of their work and its application to functional and mechanistic explanations of behavior.

A501 Seminar in the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior (2-3 cr.) Investigation of functional behavior of animals (e.g., migration, parental behavior, mate choice) using an interdisciplinary approach that attempts to integrate the perspectives of developmental psychology, ecology and evolutionary biology, neural science, and the science of learning and memory. Topic will vary. May be repeated for credit.

A502 Research and Professional Ethics in Bio-Behavioral Sciences (1 cr.) Readings and discussion dealing with general ethical issues in science, with a particular focus on animal behavior. Topics include treatment and protection of animals; the acquisition, analysis, and use of data; student-mentor and student-teacher relations; credit, authorship, and peer review.

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Cross-Listed Courses

Biology
L567 Evolution (3 cr.)
L581 Behavioral Ecology (3 cr.)
Z540 Genetics of Population (3 cr.)

Medical Sciences
M555 Medical Neuroscience (5 cr.)
P548 Neuroethology (2 cr.)

Neural Science
N500 Neural Science I (4 cr.)
N501 Neural Science II (3 cr.)

Psychology
P504 Learning and Motivation (3 cr.)
P526 Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (3 cr.)
P527 Developmental Psychobiology (3 cr.)
P667 Neuropsychopharmacology (3 cr.)
P717 Evolutionary Bases of Learning (3 cr.)

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