BI**194: Summer 2023 Course Descriptions

Disclaimer: Students may not receive credit for a second attempt of the same topic that was previously completed.

Course	BIEB 194 A00 (Summer Session 2)
Instructor	Kurle, Carolyn
Title	Finding Your Guidance Groove: Tools for navigating life from a place of personal authenticity rather than false mental stories.
Description	We will read and discuss the book by UCSD Biology Professor Dr. Kurle called The Guidance Groove: Escape Unproductive Habits, Trust Your Intuition, and Be True. The book is a roadmap for people who are used to making decisions while relying mostly on the mental stories they have accumulated over years of personal, familial, and societal programming, but who intuitively feel and know there is a different way. We will discuss how to approach choices in your life in a way that looks beyond false mental constructs and draws on data from your own personal intuition and wisdom. We'll examine what it means to be stuck in the false stories stemming from four Unproductive Grooves—Inadequacy, Obligation, Scarcity, and Unworthiness—across multiple life arenas (family, friends, school/work/life, community, and intimate partnerships), how to escape from the automatic thinking that perpetuates the Unproductive Grooves, and how to find, value, and listen to your own personal guidance. In this way, you can approach all choices from a place of wholeness, heightened authenticity, and freedom which increases personal happiness, ease, and joy. Groups of students will be responsible for working together to present each chapter for discussion. Please be prepared to be vulnerable and open to sharing with Dr. Kurle and the other members of the seminar. We will create a safe, encouraging, and loving space to share our experiences of recognizing and breaking free of Unproductive Grooves and navigating choices from a place of sincerity, clarity, and guidance.
Prerequisites	Please see the Biology Course Prerequisites page for most current prerequisite information.

Course	BIPN 194 A00 (Summer Session 1)
Instructor	Leutgeb, Stefan
Title	Brain Oscillations and Their Relevance for Neural Computations
Description	Brain oscillations have long been linked to neural computations in the healthy brain, and some aspects of oscillatory activity have been reported to be disrupted in any of the major psychiatric and neurological diseases. Selectively targeting of brain oscillations for treatment could thus profoundly improve cognitive function in these diseases. This course provides an overview of the different types of oscillatory brain activity patterns and discusses classical and recent research publications on the generation, function, and disease-relevance of brain oscillations.
Prerequisites	Please see the Biology Course Prerequisites page for most current prerequisite information.

Course	BISP 194 A00 (Summer Session 1)
Instructor	Neih, James
Title	Animal Behavior: Sensory Worlds
Description	Animals occupy remarkably diverse sensory worlds that are shaped by and shape their lifestyles and the ecological niches that they occupy. This course will use these different sensory worlds as a major theme for understanding Animal Behavior, covering, in brief, Behavioral Neurobiology, Behavioral Endocrinology, Behavioral Genetics, Learning, Animal Migration and Animal Communication. Student discussions during lectures is emphasized.
Prerequisites	Please see the Biology Course Prerequisites page for most current prerequisite information.

Course	BISP 194 B00 (Summer Session 1) & BISP 194 A00 (Summer Session 2)
Instructor	Jindal, Granton
Title	Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Description	The goal of this discussion course is to cover how new evolutionary phenotypes develop from mutations in the coding and noncoding regions of genomes by covering a mix of classic and current papers. The course will focus on how mutations affect developmental processes that physiologically adapt animals and plants to their environment. We will cover topics of fin-to-limb transition, stickleback fish spike loss, fly pigmentation, and human evolution from chimpanzees. We will cover why mutations in enhancers are more common than in proteins, as well as how evolution occurs after gene duplication. By the end of the course, students should be able to understand fundamental rules about how animal and plant development in different organisms has changed during evolution.
Prerequisites	Please see the Biology Course Prerequisites page for most current prerequisite information.

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