Lecture Schedule

List of Lectures

Introduction and Historical perspective

• Lecture: Introduction to the Study of Animal Behavior
• Exercise: Epistemology
• Lecture: Aims of Behavioral Research
• Lecture: Historical Perspective - Behaviorism vs. Ethology
• Lecture: Historical Perspective - NeuroEthology, Sociobiology, Behavioral Ecology
• Film: Milestones in the Study of Animal Behavior - Jane Goodall
• Lecture: Learning and Memory
• Exercise: "The Shaping Game" and Animal Training
• Lecture: Bird Song and Bird Song Learning
• Lecture: Genetics and Behavior

• Dr. Eileen Underwood "Agonistic Behavior in Bearded Dragons"
• Exercise: Neuronal Physiology and Ion Games
• Lecture: Signals and Physics - Acoustics
• Film: Examples of Animal Communication
• Lecture: Sensory Channels
• Lecture: Sensory Processing, and Review: Cellular Mechanisms, Synapes
• Lecture: Visual Processing
• Lecture: Neural Orchestration of Behavior
• Lecture: Behavioral Endocrinology

• Lecture: Biological Rhythms and its Hormonal Control
• Lecture: Mechanisms of Orientation, Navigation, Migration
• Film: Examples of Animal Orientation and Navigation
• Lecture: Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium and Lecture: Dispersal and Inbreeding
• Lecture: Natural Selection
• Lecture: Sexual Selection
• Lecture: Mating Systems
• Film: Examples of Courtship Behavior
• Lecture: Fossil Behavior and Evolution and Behavior
• Dr. Anne Gordon Evolutionary Psychology

Ultimate Mechanisms in Behavior and Behavioral Ecology

• Lecture: Altruism
• Lecture: Eusociality
• Dr. Dan Wiegmann Optimality Theory and Game Theory
• Lecture: Game Theory
• Lecture: Hawks and Doves and Agonistic Behavior
• Film: Examples of Agonistic Interactions among Conspecifics
• Lecture: Habitat Use
• Lecture: Human Sociobiology, Human Ethology