This course reviews the cultural risk, protective, and promotive factors that contribute to typical and atypical patterns of development.This course will provide a strong understanding of contemporary models of culture and will illuminate how cultural experiences and processes influence the emergence of adaptation and maladaptation at different levels of the human experience. Topics addressed in the course will include resilience, ethnic-racial socialization, identity, socioeconomic disadvantage, discrimination, racial inequality, acculturation, neurobiology, neuroscience, culturallysensitive interventions, representation and power in research,and appropriate research methods to use with racially and ethnically diversepopulations.

An introductory graduate level course in behavioral neuroscience that will consider what we can learn about brain and behavior from studies of humans and non-human animals. It is designed for graduate students with little specific training in this area. Topics include an introducti on to the comparative and evolutionary approach to the study of human and animal behavior, the biobehavioral basis of sexuality and social behavior, the physiological basis of higher cortical functions in humans including language, memory, and spatial perception, and an introduction to neuropharmacology.