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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Animal Behavior Minor

The minor in Animal Behavior consists of 18 hours of courses. The minor is designed to give students flexibility to explore different areas of animal behavior, including animal research, care, and welfare.

Campus: Knoxville

Minor Requirements

The minor consists of approximately six courses (a minimum of 18 credit hours). Up to 9 credit hours may also be used toward meeting curricular requirements for the student’s major or another minor requirement concurrently. Students can obtain a minor in Animal Behavior and also a major in related disciplines, including Psychology, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Animal Science. Students cannot obtain an Interdisciplinary Major and Minor in Animal Behavior.

Complete Core Animal Behavior Courses:

INPG 202 - Special Topics 1-3 Credit Hours
EEB 450 - Animal Behavior 3 Credit Hours
or
PSYC 450 - Animal Behavior 3 Credit Hours
EEB 459 - Animal Behavior Laboratory 3 Credit Hours
or
PSYC 459 - Animal Behavior Laboratory 3 Credit Hours

Complete remaining hours from the following list:

ANSC 340 - Animal Breeding and Genetics 3 Credit Hours
ANSC 480 - Animal Behavior and Welfare 3 Credit Hours *
ANTH 483 - Evolutionary Biology for Anthropologists 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 490 - Primate Evolution 4 Credit Hours
ANTH 494 - Primate Behavior 3 Credit Hours
BCMB 423 - Neural Basis of Behavior 3 Credit Hours
EEB 423 - Conservation Decision Making 3 Credit Hours
EEB 432 - Conservation Genomics 3 Credit Hours
EEB 454 - Animal Communication 3 Credit Hours
EEB 464 - Macroevolution 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 320 - Paleobiology 4 Credit Hours
EEPS 420 - Trace Fossils: Behavior, Environment, and Applications 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 422 - Evolution of Life 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 423 - Paleoecology 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 301 - Foundations of Behavioral Neuroscience 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 310 - Learning and Thinking 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 314 - Cognitive Basis of Behavior 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 320 - Motivation and Emotion 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 370 - Evolutionary Psychology and Ethology 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 410 - Sensory Processes and Perception 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 461 - Behavioral Neuroscience 3 Credit Hours
WFS 401 - Ecology and Management of Wildlife Health 3 Credit Hours *
WFS 425 - Tropical Ecology, Conservation, and Field Methods 3 Credit Hours
WFS 431 - Wildlife Physiology and Nutrition 3 Credit Hours

And/or a maximum of 3 credit hours from:

ANSC 493 - Independent Study in Animal Science 1-3 Credit Hours
ANSC 499 - Undergraduate Research 1-3 Credit Hours
EEB 400 - Undergraduate Research 1-2 Credit Hours
EEB 407 - Senior Honors Thesis 3 Credit Hours
EEB 493 - Independent Study 1-9 Credit Hours
EEPS 493 - Independent Study 1-12 Credit Hours
EEPS 497 - Honors: Senior Thesis 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 396N - Internship in Psychology 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 489 - Supervised Research 1-9 Credit Hours
WFS 493 - Independent Study in Wildlife and Fisheries Science 1-15 Credit Hours
* Meets Volunteer Core Requirement.