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BCS 183: Lecture Schedule

Only students who are enrolled in the course may access the readings online. You must be logged into Blackboard to download the course readings.

"W" plus a chapter number designates the text, Animal Cognition by Wynne. "S" signifies Fundamentals of Comparative Cognition by Shettleworth.

Date Topic Reading Blackboard Reading
09/05 Introduction | pdf    
09/10 Philosophy of Animal Minds | pdf W1
S1
 
09/12 Cognitive Ethology | pdf   Real 1993
09/17 Evolution | pdf   Dawkins Ch 1;
Boyd & Silk Ch 1
09/19 Human Evolution: Sexual selection | pdf   Daly & Wilson Ch 5
09/24 Human Evolution: Sex differences | pdf   McIntyre & Edwards 2009
09/26 EXAM 1    
10/01 The Senses & Perception | pdf W4
S2, pp 17-20
 
10/03 Learning | pdf W3
S2, pp 34-41
 
10/08 Fall Break    
10/10 FILM: The Human Spark, Part 1    
10/15 Physics | pdf W5, pp 81-86  
10/17 Time & Space | pdf W5, pp 96-110
S3, pp 49-64
 
10/22 Categories & Concepts | pdf W5, pp 87-96
S2, pp 41-48
 
10/24 EXAM 2    
10/29 FILM: The Human Spark, Part 2    
10/31 Memory | pdf W6
S2, pp 20-34
 
11/05 Intuition & Metacognition | pdf    
11/07 Reasoning & Inference | pdf W7  
11/12 Tools & Insight | pdf S3, pp 73-79  
11/14 Consciousness | pdf W2  
11/19 FILM: The Human Spark, Part 3    
11/21 Thanksgiving Break    
11/26 EXAM 3    
11/28 Social Cognition | pdf S4  
12/03 Language | pdf W8  
12/05 Brain Evolution & Neurobiology | pdf   Roth & Dicke 2005
12/10 Comparing Species | pdf W9  
12/12 What makes humans unique? | pdf S12  
12/17 EXAM 4
@ 4:00 PM
   

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