New Course

Biology and Human Social and Sexual Behavior

For majors in the Social Sciences and Humanities

A new elective for Biology and Biochemistry Majors

A new way to satisfy the H DEC

Why do we feel and act as we do? What is our true nature as social and sexual animals? Why has human history proceed as it has? Why are human societies organized as they are?

Biology has made dramatic new progress in answering these questions. The course will explore these exciting developments. Humanists and social scientists will appreciate the crucial relevance of biology to their disciplines. Biologists and other scientists will understand the essential contribution science is making to our understading of human life.

Return to Biochemistry and Cell Biology Department