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Mind/Brain/Behavior Advanced Courses

Departmental Advanced Courses in Psychology


Students in the MBB Track are required to take at least one departmental Advanced Course in Psychology. See this page for more information about what counts as a departmental Advanced Course!

If an MBB Track student uses a qualifying AP or IB test score to waive the Introductory Course requirement, then they must take an additional departmental Advanced Course in place of the Introductory Course (bringing the total number of Advanced Courses required from 4 to 5). For more on the MBB Track requirements, please see the Requirements Chart.

 

Advanced Courses in Participating MBB Concentrations


The other three Advanced Courses required for an MBB Track student should be from the following list of courses from participating MBB concentrations. If you find another course from one of these concentrations that you feel should count towards the MBB Advanced Course requirement based on its significant psychology content, please submit a petition to the Undergraduate Office.

[BRACKETED COURSES] are not being offered in 2024-2025 academic year (as of April, 2024).

Computer Sciences (COMPSCI)

  • COMPSCI 50 (if taken for letter grade), Introduction to Computer Science
  • COMPSCI 96, System Design Projects: Machine Learning for Social Impact
  • COMPSCI 1050 (formerly COMPSCI 105, 199R), Privacy and Technology
  • COMPSCI 109A, Data Science 1: Introduction to Data Science (formerly COMPSCI 109, Data Science) (jointly offered with Department of Statistics as STAT 121A & School of Engineering as APCOMP 209A)
  • COMPSCI 109B, Data Science 2: Advanced Topics in Data Science (jointly offered with Department of Statistics as STAT 121B & School of Engineering as APCOMP 209B)
  • COMPSCI 1360 (formerly COMPSCI 136, 186), Economics and Computation
  • COMPSCI 1710, Visualization (formerly COMPSCI 171)
  • COMPSCI 1810, Machine Learning (formerly COMPSCI 181)
  • COMPSCI 1870, Introduction to Computational Linguistics and Natural-language Processing (formerly COMPSCI 187, Computational Linguistics)
  • [COMPSCI 79, Design of Useful and Usable Interactive Systems (formerly COMPSCI 179, Design of Usable Interactive Systems)]
  • [COMPSCI 108, Intelligent Systems: Design and Ethical Challenges]
  • [COMPSCI 134, Networks]
  • [COMPSCI 182, Artificial Intelligence]
  • [COMPSCI 189, Autonomous Robot Systems]

History and Science (HISTSCI)

  • HISTSCI 1490, (formerly HISTSCI 149) The History and Culture of Stigma
  • HISTSCI 1770, (formerly HISTSCI 170), Broken Brains: A Patient-Centered History
  • HISTSCI 1825, (formerly HISTSCI 188) Open Minds, Wired Worlds: Computers and Cyberculture
  • [HISTSCI 108, Bodies, Sexualities, and Medicine in the Medieval Middle East]
  • [HISTSCI 174, Critical Experiments in the Human Sciences: Conference Course]
  • [HISTSCI 176, Brainwashing and Modern Techniques of Mind Control]
  • [HISTSCI 178, Psychotherapy and the Modern Self (formerly History of the Psychotherapies)]
  • [HISTSCI 179, The Freudian Century]
  • [HISTSCI 1472, Mental Health in Crisis: From War Neurosis to Covid-19]
  • [HISTSCI 1829, (formerly HISTSCI 189), The World We Made: Technology and Society]

Human Evolutionary Biology (HEB)

  • HEB 30 (formerly HEB 1330), Primate Social Behavior
  • HEB 39 (formerly HEB 1339), The Human Brain in the Animal Kingdom
  • HEB 117 (formerly HEB 1317), Evolution, Anatomy, and Physiology of Sleep
  • HEB 130 (formerly HEB 1310), Hormones and Behavior
  • HEB 135 (formerly HEB 1328), Clinical Comparative Medicine: Evolutionary Perspectives on Mental and Physical Health (formerly Evolutionary Medicine: Comparative Perspectives on Medical, Surgical, and Psychiatric Illness)
  • HEB 143 (formerly HEB 1332), Primate Development
  • HEB 145 (formerly HEB 1384), Thinking Through Human Cognition
  • [HEB 1290, Genes, Mind, and Culture (formerly Cultural Evolution)]

Linguistics (LING)

  • LING 83, Language, Structure, and Cognition (formerly Language, Structure, and Culture)
  • LING 101, The Science of Language: An Introduction
  • LING 105, Sounds of Language
  • LING 106, Knowledge of Meaning
  • LING 132, Psychosemantics

Neuroscience (NEURO) (The Department of Neurobiology changed its name to Department of Neuroscience as of 2018-19 academic year)

*Neuroscience offers a few year-long, indivisible courses for 4.00 credits. Students must take both the "A" and "B" versions of these courses before receiving any concentration credit. Version "A" may not be reflected in your Advising Report. Please let your advisor know that you are in Version "A" during your advising meetings so the course can be factored into your discussion.

  • NEURO 57, Animal Behavior (jointly offered with Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology as OEB 57)
  • NEURO 101W, Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience
  • NEURO 101Y, Neuropharmacology of Pain (formerly 101YA and 101YB)
  • NEURO 105, Systems Neuroscience (jointly offered with the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology as MCB 105)
  • NEURO 120, Introductory Computational Neuroscience
  • NEURO 140, Biological and Artificial Intelligence
  • NEURO 143, Neurobilogy of Vision and Blindness (jointly offered with the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology as MCB 143)
  • NEURO 145, Neurobiology of Perception and Decision-Making (jointly offered with the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology as MCB 145)
  • NEURO 170, Brain Invaders: Building and Breaking Barriers in the Nervous System (jointly offered with the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology as MCB 170)
  • [*NEURO 101FA and 101FB (formerly Neurobiology 111A and 111B), Synaptic and Non-Synaptic Plasticity: How the Brain Learns (formerly Neurobiology of Learning and Memory)]
  • [*NEURO 101IA and 101IB (formerly Neurobiology 104A and 104B), The Neurobiology of Drug Addiction]
  • [*NEURO 101OA and 101OB, Food for Hungry Minds: The Neural Basis of Feeding Behavior]
  • [*NEURO 101PA and 101PB, Making Sense of our Senses]
  • [*NEURO 101QA and 101QB, The Neuroscience of Learning and Memory]
  • [*NEURO 101RA and 101RB, Neurobiology of Emotion and Mood Disorders]
  • [*NEURO 101TA and 101TB, Neuroscience of Addiction]
  • [NEURO 125, Molecular Basis of Behavior (jointly offered with the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology as MCB 125)]
  • [NEURO 130, Visual Recognition: Computational and Biophysical Perspective]

Philosophy (PHIL)

  • PHIL 6, Ancient Ethics and Modern Morality
  • PHIL 14, Morality and the Good Life: An Introduction to Ethics
  • PHIL 156, Philosophy of Mind
  • [PHIL 177, Educational Justice: Proseminar]
  • [PHIL 179, Race and Social Justice]

 

Non-Departmental Courses in the MBB Track


MBB Track Students may choose to petition one non-departmental course towards their Advanced Course requirement. This non-departmental course cannot replace the required departmental Advanced Course(s). Please see this page for more information on petitioning a non-departmental Advanced Course!