Faculty
Introduction
Undergraduate Minor in Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
Undergraduate Area Certificate

Faculty

Co-Directors
Professor Ellen Ketterson and Professor William Timberlake

Professors
Jeffrey Alberts (Psychology), Ellen Ketterson (Biology), Curtis Lively (Biology), Val Nolan Jr. (Emeritus, Biology), George Rebec (Program in Neural Science, Psychology), William Rowland (Biology), Dale Sengelaub (Program in Neural Science, Psychology), Joe Steinmetz (Program in Neural Science, Psychology), Roderick Suthers (Program in Medical Sciences, Program in Neural Science), William Timberlake (Psychology), Michael Wade (Biology), Meredith West (Psychology)

Associate Professor
Emilia P. Martins (Biology)

Assistant Professors
Edmund D. Brodie III (Biology), Gregory E. Demas (Biology), Gerald Troy Smith (Biology)

Senior Scientist
Andrew King (Psychology)

Academic Advisors
Professor Ellen Ketterson, Jordan Hall 033, (812) 855-6837; Professor William Timberlake, Psychology 324, (812) 855-4042

Adjunct Professors
Craig Nelson (Biology), Rudolf Raff (Institute of Molecular Biology), J. C. Randolph (Public and Environmental Affairs), Esther Thelen (Psychology)

Adjunct Associate Professors
Preston Garraghty (Program in Neural Science, Psychology), Kevin Hunt (Anthropology), Henry Prange (Medical Sciences), Dolores Schroeder (Program in Neural Science, Medical Sciences), Holly Stocking (Journalism)

Program E-mail
lisummer@indiana.edu

Program URL
www.indiana.edu/~animal/index.html

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Introduction

The Program in Animal Behavior (ABEH) encourages students to look at questions of brain, environment, and behavior from several disciplinary perspectives in order to encourage a fuller understanding of the factors influencing and constraining behavior.

The undergraduate minor will help students interested in animal behavior develop a background in ethnology, evolution, learning, and neuroscience; provide students with the language they need to transcend the boundaries of a single discipline; and give students an early opportunity to reflect on the consequences of different intellectual approaches to a single problem. Such students will be better prepared to join a scientific community that is just beginning to synthesize traditional research approaches in order to achieve a better understanding of behavior as an interface between genes and the environment, as well as a clearer conception of the relationships among brain, behavior, and evolution.

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Undergraduate Minor in Integrative Study of Animal Behavior

Requirements
Students must complete the following:

1. Six courses (minimum 17 credit hours; most course choices will result in more than 17 credit hours)
2. One introductory course outside the student's major department chosen from the following list:

   Anthropology
   B200 Bioanthropology (3 cr.)

   Biology
   L111 Introduction to Biology: Evolution and Diversity (3 cr.)
   L112 Introduction to Biology: Biological Mechanisms (3 cr.)
   E111 Basic Biology by Examination I (3 cr.)
   E112 Basic Biology by Examination II (3 cr.)

   Psychology
   P101 Introductory Psychology I (3 cr.)
   P102 Introductory Psychology II (3 cr.)
   P106 General Psychology, Honors (4 cr.)

3. One course from each of the following four categories:

   Overview—one course required
   Biology Z460 Ethology (3 cr.)
   Psychology P417 Animal Behavior (3 cr.)

   Evolution—one course required
   Biology L318 Evolution (3 cr.)
   Biology S318 Evolution, Honors (4 cr.)
   Biology L369 Heredity, Evolution, and Society (3 cr.)

   Learning and Development—one course required
   Psychology P325 Psychology of Learning (3 cr.)
   Psychology P444 Developmental Psychobiology (3 cr.)

   Mechanism—one course required
   Biology Z466 Endocrinology (3 cr.)
   Psychology P326 Behavioral Neuroscience (3 cr.)

4. One upper-level course chosen from the following list:

   Anthropology
   B368 The Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (3 cr.)
   B400 Undergraduate Seminar (topics approved by Animal Behavior director only) (3 cr.)
   B466 The Primates (3 cr.)

   Biology
   Z373 Entomology (3 cr.)
   Z374 Invertebrate Zoology (3 cr.)
   L376 Biology of Birds (4 cr.)
   L377 Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles (3 cr.)
   Z406 Vertebrate Zoology (5 cr.)
   L433 Tropical Biology (3 cr.)
   L465 Advanced Field Biology (3 cr.)
   L473 Ecology (3 cr.)
   L474 Field and Laboratory Ecology (2 cr.)
   Z476 Biology of Fishes (4 cr.)

   Cognitive Science
   Q301 Brain and Cognition (3 cr.)

   Medical Sciences
   P416 Comparative Animal Physiology (3 cr.)

   Psychology
   P315 Developmental Psychology (3 cr.)
   P327 Psychology of Motivation (3 cr.)
   P410 Development of the Brain and Behavior (3 cr.)
   P411 Neural Bases of Learning and Memory (3 cr.)
   P413 Operant and Pavlovian Conditioning (3 cr.)
   P416 Evolution and Ecology of Learning (3 cr.)
   P444 Developmental Psychobiology (3 cr.)