PSY 329 - Animal Behavior

Description

Hours: Four hours lecture per week Prerequisite: Upper Division standing Explores how animals interact with each other and their environment to solve problems related to survival and reproduction. Emphasizes the mechanisms of solving problems like finding food while not becoming food, reproduction and parental care, when and how animals communicate, navigation over short and long distances, and the tension between cooperation and competition that arises in social living. The class provides perspective on the relationship between organisms and their environment, the neurological and hormonal mechanisms of behavior, the role of learning and cognition, and the origins of human behavior.

Meeting Information

Info current as 5/3/2024
Days Times Room Meeting Dates Instructor
MW  2:00 PM  -  3:50 PM  Online 1/23/2021 - 5/28/2021 Matthew Campbell

Status: Open
Class Number: 2599
Session: Regular Academic Session
Units: 4.00
Class Components: Lecture
Career: Undergraduate
Dates: 1/23/2021 - 5/28/2021
Grading: Letter Grade

Class Availability

Information below is 24 hours old.
Enrollment Total: 24
Available Seats: 11
Wait List Capacity: 10
Wait List Total: 0

Textbook / Other Materials

Status: Required
ISBN: 9781119110804
Title: Perspectives on Animal Behavior
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporate
Author: Goodenough

Status: Required
ISBN: 9780470045176
Title: Perspectives on Animal Behavior
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporate
Author: Goodenough

Status: Required
ISBN: 9781119110804
Title: Perspectives on Animal Behavior
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporate
Author: Goodenough

Status: Required
ISBN: 9781119110804
Title: Perspectives on Animal Behavior
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporate
Author: Goodenough

More textbook information including prices

Enrollment Information

  • Upper Division

Notes

Open to Juniors and Seniors Only