2024-2025 Academic Catalog

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Adaptive Brain and Behavior (ABB) Minor

Gateway Courses
Select two of the following:6
Concussion Perspectives: Medical, Scientific and Societal Perspectives
Integrative Practices for Health, Wellbeing, and Resilience
Neuroscience and Society
Subtotal6
Foundational Courses
Select one of the following:3
Healthy Relationships: Understanding Self and Others
Motivating Yourself and Others
Adulthood and Aging
Behavioral Theory in Health Promotion
Introductory Psychology
Subtotal3
ABB Minor Electives (at least one course must be at the 3000 or 4000 level)
Select two of the following:6
Introduction to Health Communication
Human Development I: Childhood and Adolescence
Issues in Aging
Behavioral Theory in Health Promotion
Choice and Behavior
Healthy Relationships: Understanding Self and Others
Motivating Yourself and Others
Adulthood and Aging
War and Medicine
History of Disease, Medicine, and Health
Introduction to Neuroscience
Introduction to Neuroscience
Neuroscience and Society
War and the Brain
Neuroeconomics
Introductory Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Psychology of Learning
Introduction to Neuroscience of Behavior
Psychopathology
Human Behaviors and Natural Environments
Health Psychology
Physiological Psychology
Sensation and Perception
Cognitive Psychology
Sociology of Aging
Sociology of Mental Illness
The Life Sciences and Society
Helmet Design: Biomechanics to Health & Social Disparities in Sports
Subtotal6
ABB Minor Capstone Requirements
HD 4714Senior Capstone Seminar3
or NEUR 3554 Neuroscience Research and Practical Experience
or NEUR 4044 Neuroscience Senior Seminar
or NEUR 4594 Clinical Neuroscience in Practice
Or one of the following may substitute with ABB Advisor approval:
XXXX 3954/4954Study Abroad
XXXX 4974Independent Study
XXXX 4984Special Study
XXXX 4994Undergraduate Research
Subtotal3
Total Credits18

Graduation Requirements

Note: For the courses attempted for this minor, students must maintain an overall minor GPA of 2.0 or better. A minimum of 18 hours is required to graduate with an Adaptive Brain and Behavior minor.