Secondary Field Electives 2023-2024

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. This list, which varies each year, has been updated for 2023-2024. Courses on elective lists from previous years will count toward the secondary field; check with Shawn Harriman if you have any questions about previous courses. 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.

  • Biomedical Engineering 110. Physiological Systems Analysis
  • Biomedical Engineering 128. Biomedical Imaging and Systems
  • Biomedical Engineering 129. Introduction to Bioelectronics
  • Biomedical Engineering 131. Neuroengineering
  • Computer Science 79. Design of Useful and Usable Interactive Systems
  • Computer Science 178. Engineering Usable Interactive Systems
  • Computer Science 181. Machine Learning
  • Computer Science 182. Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science 184. Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
  • Computer Science 187.Introduction to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing
  • 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 1066. Rationality
  • General Education 1084. The First Nine Months
  • General Education 1106. Sound and Music Perception
  • General Education 1125. Artificial and Natural Intelligence
  • General Education 1179. Psychotherapy and the Modern Self
  • General Education 1186. The Age of Anxiety: Histories, Theories, Remedies
  • General Education 1188. Rise of the Machines? Understanding and Using Generative AI
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1290. Genes, Minds, and Culture
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1305. The Evolution of Friendship
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1317. Evolution, Anatomy, and Physiology of Sleep
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1324. Mammalian Business
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1330. Primate Social Behavior
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1332. Primate Development
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1336. A Pan Model for Human Evolution: What Can We Learn from Chimpanzees and Bonobos about Ourselves?
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1339. The Human Brain in the Animal Kingdom
  • Human Evolutionary Biology 1384. Thinking through Human Cognition
  • Linguistics 83. Language, Structure, and Cognition
  • 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
  • Neuroscience 105 / Molecular and Cellular Biology 105. Systems Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience 115 / Molecular and Cellular Biology 115. Cellular Basis of Neuronal Function
  • Neuroscience 120. Introductory Computational Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience 125 / Molecular and Cellular Biology 125. Molecular Basis of Behavior
  • Neuroscience 130. Visual Recognition: Computational and Biophysical Perspectives
  • Neuroscience 140. Biological and Artificial Intelligence
  • Neuroscience 141 / Physics 141. The Physics of Sensory Systems
  • Neuroscience 143 / Molecular and Cellular Biology 143. Neurobiology of Vision and Blindness
  • Neuroscience 170 / Molecular and Cellular Biology 170. Brain Invaders: Building and Breaking Barriers in the Nervous System
  • 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 129. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
  • Philosophy 156. Philosophy of Mind
  • Psychology 14. Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology 15. Social Psychology
  • Psychology 16. Developmental Psychology
  • Psychology 18. Abnormal Psychology
  • Psychology 1005. Health: A Positive Psychology Perspective
  • Psychology 1009. Psychology of Women
  • Psychology 1018. The Science and Psychology of Music
  • Psychology 1020. Too Much of a Good Thing? The Psychology of Reward
  • Psychology 1021. Stress and Cognition: Implications for Empowered Learning
  • Psychology 1022. Fact or Fiction? Mythbusting Pseudoscience in Psychology
  • Psychology 1026. Psychology of Communication
  • Psychology 1031. Psychology in the Classroom
  • Psychology 1201. Your Brain on Drugs: Psychopharmacology
  • Psychology 1202 / Neuroscience 1202. Modern Neuroanatomy
  • Psychology 1311. Precision Cognitive Neuroscience: Opportunities Afforded by Deep, Intensive Study with Individuals
  • Psychology 1322. Decisions Big and Small: The Cognitive Science of Making Up Your Mind
  • Psychology 1340. Imagination, Pretense, and Make-Believe Worlds
  • Psychology 1401 / Neuroscience 1401. Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Building Models of the Brain
  • Psychology 1406. Biological and Visual Systems: How Humans and Machines Represent the Visual World
  • Psychology 1522. First Impressions
  • Psychology 1532. Psychology’s Big Questions
  • Psychology 1612. Family, School, and Society: Shaping the Developing Child
  • Psychology 1614. Growing Up in a Social World
  • Psychology 1615. First Love: The Psychology of Caregiver-Child Relationships
  • Psychology 1622. Emerging Adulthood: Challenges and Possibilities
  • Psychology 1651r. Language Development: Undergraduate Laboratory Course: Research Seminar
  • Psychology 1652r. Laboratory in Early Cognitive Development
  • Psychology 1702. The Emotional Mind
  • Psychology 1709. Psychology of Personality
  • Psychology 1711. Situational Superpowers: Investigating Interactions between People and Contexts
  • Psychology 1750. Free Will, Responsibility, and Law
  • Psychology 1801. Anxiety Disorders
  • Psychology 1812. Intercultural Perspectives on Trauma
  • Psychology 1813. Technology and Mental Health
  • Psychology 1816. Broken Brains: Mechanisms and Markers of Mental Illness
  • Psychology 1845. Stigma, Discrimination, and Health