College of Arts and Sciences

Departmental E-mail: abeh@indiana.edu 

Departmental URL: Animal Behavior Website

(Please note that when conferring University Graduate School degrees, minors, certificates, and sub-plans, The University Graduate School’s staff use those requirements contained only in The University Graduate School Bulletin.)

Curriculum

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Students must be admitted to a Ph.D. program in the Depart­ment of Biology, the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, or the program in Neuroscience or other related departments or programs (e.g., program in Medical Sciences, Anthropology, History and Philosophy of Science). They must also become a member of 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 Psychological and Brain Sciences or the program in Neuroscience or other related departments or programs (i.e., Anthropology, History and Philosophy of Sciences) is expected. For students whose home department or program is the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences or the program in Neuroscience, at least one member of the advisory committee from Biology or other related departments or program (i.e., Medical Sciences, Anthropology, History and Philosophy of Science) is expected. At least two of the student's committee members must be members of the program in Animal Behavior.

Ph.D. Minor in Animal Behavior

Course Requirements

At least THREE courses taken from at least two different departments/graduate programs, as specified below:

(1) ONE ABEH A501 Seminar in the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior.
(2) TWO courses from the following list. One of these courses must be a graduate-level evolution or ecology course (E/E) if such a course is not part of the student’s major.  One of these courses must be a graduate-level neuroscience or physiology (N/P) course if such a course is not part of the student’s major. Other graduate courses with significant content in the study of animal behavior may be substituted with the permission of the CISAB director:

• ANTH B540 Hormones and Human Behavior (N/P)
• NEUS N500 Neural Science I (N/P)
• NEUS N501 Neural Science II (N/P)
• BIOL L560 Physiological Ecology (N/P)
• BIOL Z563 Comparative Neurobiology of Animal Behavior (N/P)
• BIOL Z620 Genetics of Behavior (N/P)¹
• BIOL Z620 Sensory Ecology (N/P)¹
• PSY P526 Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (N/P)
• PSY P569 Stress Effects on Brain and Behavior (N/P)
• PSY P637 Neurobiology of Addiction (N/P)
• PSY P667 Neuropsychopharmacology (N/P)
• ANTH B527 Human Evolutionary Biology Laboratory (E/E)
• ANTH B568 Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (E/E)
• BIOL L567 Evolution (E/E)
• BIOL L573 Quantitative Genetics and Microevolution (E/E)
• BIOL L581 Behavioral Ecology (E/E)
• BIOL Z540 Population Genetics (E/E)
• BIOL Z620 Phylogenetics (E/E)²
• BIOL L505 Evolution and Development (E/E)
• Additional ABEH A501 Seminar in the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
• ANTH B500 Proseminar in Bioanthropology ³
• ANTH B522 Laboratory Methods in Bioanthropology
• ANTH B524 Theory and Method in Human Paleontology
• ANTH B525 Genetic Methods in Anthropology
• ANTH B546 Reproductive Ecology
• ANTH B600 Seminar in Bioanthropology ³
• BIOL Z460 Animal Behavior
• BIOL Z466 Endocrinology
• COGS Q551 Brain and Cognition
• COGS Q700 Theoretical Issues in Animal Cognition³
• PSY P514 Methods in Biopsychology
• PSY P527 Developmental Psychobiology
• PSY P564 Psychophysics
• MED P561 Comparative Animal Physiology (N/P)

¹ Only Genetics of Behavior or Sensory Ecology sections of BIOL Z620 count towards this requirement. Other sections require approval of the CISAB director.

² Only Phylogenetics section of BIOL Z620 counts towards this requirement.  Other sections require approval of the CISAB director.

³ Only sections with significant content in the field of animal behavior count towards this requirement. Consult with the CISAB director.

As required by home department or program.

Graduate 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 the following:

1. One additional ABEH A501 Seminar in the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
2. ABEH A502 Professional Ethics for the Bio-Behavioral Sci­ences or PSY P595 First-Year Research Seminar
3. One additional course from above.

Examination

As required by home department or program.

Statistics Requirement

As required by home department or program.

Thesis

Required.