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Behavioural Biology-Period 2
Computer Science Program
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dates: mid Aug 2025 - late Dec 2025
Behavioural Biology-Period 2
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Subject Area: Biology
Instruction in: English
Course Code: AB_1041
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 84
Prerequisites: Neurobiologie (AB_1039, 1st year Biology) Regulatie en Afweer bij Dieren (AB_470202, or equivalent Animal Physiology course at BSc level).
DESCRIPTION
In Behavioural Biology we study the "Why?" and "How?" of different behaviours of animals in their environment. We will cover the main subdisciplines as well as important functional domains that are elemental to understand behavioural biology. Topics that we will address are:
- Principles of Animals Behaviour: Tinbergen's Four Questions
- Evolution of Behaviour
- Proximate Factors I: Neurobiology and Hormones
- Proximate Factors II: Development and Molecular Genetics
- Learning and Memory
- Cultural Transmission
- Sexual Selection
- Mating Systems
- Kinship
- Cooperation, Social Behaviour and Aggression
- Foraging and Antipredator Behaviour
- Habitat Selection, Territoriality, and Migration
- Communication
- Learning and Memory
- Episodic Memory, Consciousness and Personalities
- Emotion and Stress
- Aging and Disease
Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.
- Principles of Animals Behaviour: Tinbergen's Four Questions
- Evolution of Behaviour
- Proximate Factors I: Neurobiology and Hormones
- Proximate Factors II: Development and Molecular Genetics
- Learning and Memory
- Cultural Transmission
- Sexual Selection
- Mating Systems
- Kinship
- Cooperation, Social Behaviour and Aggression
- Foraging and Antipredator Behaviour
- Habitat Selection, Territoriality, and Migration
- Communication
- Learning and Memory
- Episodic Memory, Consciousness and Personalities
- Emotion and Stress
- Aging and Disease
Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.