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Course Info for NESC - 325 - 01, Spring 2025
Class number: 2671 Title: Hormones and Social Behavior Department: Neuroscience
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 19 Current enrollment: 9 Available seats: 10
Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM, LSC - 132 Instructor(s): Martinez, Luis
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: C- or better in Neuroscience 201 or Psychology 261
Distribution Requirement: Meets Natural Science Requirement
Course Description:
This course will examine how hormones act within the brain to ultimately influence the expression of social behaviors. We will address how hormones drive the development and function of specific brain areas, with a particular focus on sex differences in these processes. We will consider a wide range of behaviors with implications for our social lives, including sexual attraction, bonding/affiliation, aggression, and social cognition, within the context of both normative and disease states. Although this course will be approached from the human perspective, discussions will be informed by primary research conducted in both human and non-human models. Consequently, course materials will draw upon primary research articles as well as assigned readings from the text.