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3.00 Credits
For students working on an advanced research program leading to the completion of master's thesis or Ph.D. dissertation requirements.
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Prerequisite: Permission of the department. May be taken for multiple credits. Specific studies under the direction of a faculty member. See website, http://www.upenn.edu/curf/courses/benf-099 for proposal form and due dates.
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Bermant Not for first-year students. Judges in law courts are bound to decide facts according to law and to find law in keeping with precedent, statutes, and the Constitution. How do judges shoulder this great responsibility when the cases before them involve highly politicized, morally charged, socially divisive issues about which the judge may have formed a strong personal opinion The course will address this question through a reading of cases and commentary.
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Undergraduate Seniority Preference Topics vary from year to year.
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Open to Juniors and Seniors only. Davies This course will examine the interactions between human beings, their organs and cells, and various infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. The biological, societal and historical factors influencing these interactions will be analyzed and emerging infectious diseases will be particularly studied. Important infectious pathogenic agents will be surveyed in terms of their physiological functions, properties that permit them to be pathogens, pathogenesis of infections, clinical pictures of the disease states, therapeutic agents, and methods of prevention of infection. Each student will choose an infectious disease, and make an oral and written presentation on it and in this way will learn how to keep up with the topic of infectious diseases.
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Living World Sector. All classes. Medina and Muzzio. Introduction to the structure and function of the vertebrate nervous system. We begin with the cellular basis of neuronal activities, then discuss the physiological bases of motor control, sensory systems, motivated behaviors, and higher mental processes. This course is intended for students interested in the neurobiology of behavior, ranging from animal behaviors to clinical disorders. Familiarity with elementary physics and chemistry may be helpful.
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Staff. Prerequisite(s): BIBB 109, PSYC 001, COGS 001 or VLST 101. An introduction to the scientific study of vision, with an emphasis on the biological substrate and its relation to behavior. Topics will typically include physiological optics, transduction of light, visual thresholds, anatomy and physiology of the visual pathways, retinal processing, properties of visual cortex, and color vision.
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3.00 Credits
May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Living World. Class of 2009 & prior only. Grill. The regulatory physiology of motivation will be discussed in detail, including the coordination of behavioral and neural mechanisms in motivation.
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May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Living World. Class of 2009 & prior only. Seyfarth/Cheney. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 001 or BIOL 102 or BIOL 122. The evolution of social behavior in animals, with special emphasis on group formation, cooperation among kin, mating systems, territoriality and communication.
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Dinges. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 001 and one year of biology. Topics to be covered include basic principles of chronobiology; neuroscience mechanisms of circadian rhythms and sleep; phylogeny and ontongeny of sleep; human sleep and sleep disorders; circadian dysfunction; circadian and sleep homeostatic influences in human health and safety.
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