Secondary Field Electives
Secondary field requirements include two MBB elective courses, selected from the list below. The list includes relevant courses from fields that comprise the core disciplines in the undergraduate student of mind/brain/behavior.
Courses on elective lists from previous years will count toward the secondary field.
2025-2026 MBB Secondary Field Electives
2024-2025 MBB Secondary Field Electives
2023-2024 MBB Secondary Field Electives
If you take more than one course from the MBB interdisciplinary seminar list, you may count the additional one(s) toward this MBB elective requirement.
2026-2027 Secondary Field Electives
• Biomedical Engineering 110. Physiological Systems Analysis
• Biomedical Engineering 128. Introduction to Biomedical Imaging and Systems
• Biomedical Engineering 129. Introduction to Bioelectronics
• Biomedical Engineering 130. Neural Control of Movement
• Biomedical Engineering 131. Neuroengineering
• Computer Science 79. Design of Useful and Usable Interactive Systems
• Computer Science 1780. Usable Interactive Systems
• Computer Science 1810. Machine Learning
• General Education 1025. Happiness
• General Education 1038. Sleep
• General Education 1046. Evolving Morality: From Primordial Soup to Superintelligent Machines
• General Education 1056. Human Nature
• General Education 1064. Brains, Identity, and Moral Agency
• General Education 1080. How Music Works: Engineering the Acoustic World
• General Education 1102. Making Change when Change is Hard: The Law, Politics, and Policy of Social Change
• General Education 1131. Loss
• General Education 1144. Mental Health and Mental Illness through Literature and the Arts
• General Education 1187. AI, Computing, and Thinking
• General Education 1199. Learning and Unlearning
• General Education 1201. Foundations of NeuroAI: Synergy between the Sciences of Natural and Artificial
• General Education 1208. What is Love?
• General Education 1209. Dogs in Science, Society, and he World
• General Education 1210. Ethics in the Age of AI
• History of Science 1771. Science and the Quest for Consciousness
• Human Evolutionary Biology 39. The Human Brain in the Animal Kingdom
• Human Evolutionary Biology 45. Technology, Behavior, and Human Evolution
• Human Evolutionary Biology 50. Monkey Style: Primate Social Behavior
• Human Evolutionary Biology 130. Hormones and Behavior
• Life Sciences 100r / Molecular and Cellular Biology 100r. Experimental Research in the Life Sciences
• Linguistics 10. Language
• Linguistics 102. Sentence Structure
• Linguistics 105 Sounds of Language
• Linguistics 106. Knowledge of Meaning
• Linguistics 112. Syntactic Theory I
• Linguistics 115. Phonological Theory I
• Linguistics 116. Semantic Theory I
• Linguistics 175. Structure of ASL
• Neuroscience 105. Systems Neuroscience
• Neuroscience 115. Cellular Basis of Neuronal Function
• Neuroscience 120. Introductory Computational Neuroscience
• Neuroscience 125. Molecular Basis of Behavior
• Neuroscience 129. The Brain: Development, Plasticity, and Disease
• Neuroscience 146. Experience-Based Brain Development: Causes and Consequences
• Neuroscience 170. Brain Invaders: Building and Breaking Barriers in the Nervous System
• Neuroscience 180. Development, Plasticity, and Regeneration in the Mammalian Brain
• Neuroscience 1401 / Psychology 1401. Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Building Models of the Brain
• Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 57 / Neuroscience 57. Animal Behavior
• Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 104. The Mouse in Science and Society
• Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 145. Genes and Behavior
• Philosophy 8. Self and World: Early Modern Philosophy
• Philosophy 125. Beyond Dualism: Descartes and His Critics
• Philosophy 147. Philosophy of Language
• Philosophy 156. Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy 166AI. Artificial Intelligence and Society
• Psychology 11: Cognition: How the Mind Works
• Psychology 14. Cognitive Neuroscience
• Psychology 15. Social Psychology
• Psychology 16. Developmental Psychology
• Psychology 18. Psychopathology
• Psychology 1005. Health: A Positive Psychology Perspective
• Psychology 1009. Psychology of Women
• Psychology 1018. The Science and Psychology of Music
• Psychology 1022. Fact or Fiction? Mythbusting Pseudoscience in Psychology
• Psychology 1023. The Mind-Body Connection: Exploring the Intersection between Psychology and Physical Health
• Psychology 1026. Psychology of Communication
• Psychology 1027. Using Science to Build a Better Life
• Psychology 1031. Psychology in the Classroom
• Psychology 1040. From Bows to Bots: How Humans Invent Technology, and How It Reinvents Us
• Psychology 1042. Body Talk: The Psychology of Nonverbal Behavior
• Psychology 1201. Your Brain on Drugs: Psychopharmacology
• Psychology 1322. Decisions Big and Small: The Cognitive Science of Making Up Your Mind
• Psychology 1330. Maximizing Your Memory
• Psychology 1335. The Truth behind Amnesia
• Psychology 1351. The Brain’s Conductor: The Psychology of Focus, Flexibility, and Control
• Psychology 1401 / Neuroscience 1401. Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Building Models of the Brain
• Psychology 1406. Biological and Artificial Visual Systems: How Humans and Machines Represent the Visual World
• Psychology 1409. The Psychology of Large Language Models
• Psychology 1452r. Laboratory in Electrophysiology and Language
• Psychology 1537. Self, Identity, and Groups
• Psychology 1542. Regional Psychology: An Atlas of our Social World
• Psychology 1548. Breaking Barriers: The Psychology of Prejudice and its Consequences
• Psychology 1612. Family, School, and Society: Shaping the Developing Child
• Psychology 1617. Language Development in the First Few Years of Life
• Psychology 1618. Developmental Disabilities and Neurodiversity
• Psychology 1647. Friend or Foe? The Power of Peer Groups
• Psychology 1651r. Laboratory in Language Development
• Psychology 1652r. Laboratory in Early Cognitive Development
• Psychology 1654. What Infants Know, How Children Learn
• Psychology 1709. Psychology of Personality
• Psychology 1801. Anxiety Disorders
• Psychology 1813. Technology and Mental Health
• Psychology 1825. Science of Stress and Resilience
• Psychology 1853. Self-Destructive Behaviors