Date Lecture Topic Readings Discussion Sections

MONDAY Sept 13 Animal Ethics Coursepack # 2-5 (Sci Am);Kalat (pp 1-21)

WEDNESDAY Sept 15 Principles of Behavior Evolution Dawkins (chs. 1-5)

MONDAY Sept 20 Evolutionarily Stable Strategies Dawkins (chs. 6,7) pick depth topic

WEDNESDAY Sept 22 Kin & Sexual Selection (reaction essay 1 due) Dawkins (chs. 9,8)

MONDAY Sept 27 Sexual selection & Parenting Dawkins (ch 11) Evol & culture

WEDNESDAY Sept 29 Behavioral Genetics Coursepack # 6,7; Kalat ch. 1 & pp 114-127

MONDAY Oct 4 Neuronal transmission Kalat (ch 2) Addiction

WEDNESDAY Oct 6 Synaptic transmission (reaction essay2 due) Kalat (ch 3)

MONDAY Oct 11 Psychopharmacology Kalat (ch. 3) Psychopharm.

WEDNESDAY Oct 13 EXAM 1

MONDAY Oct 18 Neuroanatomy & Brain Evolution Kalat (ch. 4 & pp 130-139) Brain Dissection

WEDNESDAY Oct 20 Action Patterns Coursepack # 8 (M. Dawkins)

MONDAY Oct 25 Motor Systems Kalat (ch. 8) (no sections)

WEDNESDAY Oct 27 Motor & Umwelt (Sensory systems) Kalat (ch. 7)

MONDAY Nov 1 Perception & Audition Kalat (ch. 7 & 6)

WEDNESDAY Nov 3 Vision Kalat (ch. 6)

MONDAY Nov 8 Vision Kalat (ch. 6 & 9) Quiz

WEDNESDAY Nov 10 Motivation: Sleep & Arousal Kalat (ch. 9)

11 MONDAY Nov 15 EXAM 2 .............................................Presentations Begin

WEDNESDAY Nov 17 Motivation: Hunger & Sex Kalat (skim pp 269-280; read 281-295)

MONDAY Nov 22 Motivation: Aggression & Reward Kalat (skim 323-332; read 332-341 & 65-75)

WEDNESDAY Nov 24 Learning Kalat (ch 13)

Thanksgiving Week: no Thursday or Friday Discussions (but Wednesday lecture will meet)

MONDAY Nov 29 Learning (paper option due in lecture) Kalat (ch 13) Presentations

WEDNESDAY Dec 1 Learning &Comparative Cognition Coursepack # 10 & # 11

MONDAY Dec 6 Cognition & Brain Kalat (ch 14) Presentations

WEDNESDAY Dec 8 Cognition & Brain

MONDAY Dec 13 REVIEW

Friday Dec 17 FINAL EXAM