Integrative Biology C125 Neuroethology: Complex Animal Behaviors and Brains

Notes: Formerly IB C147
Description: Neuroethologists study neural systems by combining behavior and neuroscience to understand the neural mechanism that have evolved in various animals to solve particular problems encountered in their environmental niches. This comparative approach that emphasizes how information is processed and transformed by the brain is particularly powerful for understanding neural systems. In this course, you will learn important concepts in ethology, sensory systems, motor systems and neural plasticity and development by studying the behavior and brains of animals such as crickets, lobsters, barn-owls, honey-bees, echolocating bats, electric fishes and songbirds.
Prerequisites: One foundational lower division level in general Biology, Animal Behavior or Neurosciences; UC Berkeley classes that satisfy this requirement are Bio 1A, Bio1B, IB 31, Psych C61/MCB C61, or Psych 110
Credit Restriction: Students will receive no credit for INTEGBI C147 after completing INTEGBI 147. A deficient grade in INTEGBI C147 may be removed by taking INTEGBI 147.
Cross Listed Course: PSYCH C115C
Expected Enrollment: 38