Minor Requirements – 50 Total Credits
To encourage breadth within the minor, normally no more than four courses taken from a single department or program may be counted toward the minimum nine courses required.
Core Courses – Required 14 credits
- CGSC 130 Introduction to Cognitive Sciences (6 credits)
- CGSC 232/PSYC 232: Cognitive Processes
AND CGSC 233/PSYC 233: Laboratory in Cognitive Processes
Core Elective Courses – Required 12 credits
- CS 111: Introduction to Computer Science
- LING 115: Introduction to the Theory of Syntax
- PHIL 210: Logic
Elective Courses – Required 24 credits
At least one must be a 300-level course. To ensure sufficient interdisciplinarity, no more than four courses may be taken from any one department or program.
- BIOL 365: Seminar: Topics in Neuroscience
- BIOL 368: Seminar: Developmental Neurobiology
- CGSC 207: Japanese Philosophy: No Mind, No Life
- CGSC 253: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- CGSC 330: Embodied Cognition
- CGSC 340: Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
- CS 254: Computability and Complexity
- CS 301: History of Computing in England Program: History of Computing (not offered 2026-27)
- CS 301*: Computation, Past and Present, in England Program: History of Computing (*=Junior Seminar) (not offered 2026-27)
- CS 314: Data Visualization (not offered 2026-27)
- CS 314*: Data Visualization (*=Junior Seminar)
- CS 320: Machine Learning (not offered 2026-27)
- CS 320*: Machine Learning (*=Junior Seminar)
- CS 321: Making Decisions with Artificial Intelligence
- CS 322: Natural Language Processing (not offered 2026-27)
- CS 344: Human-Computer Interaction (not offered 2026-27)
- CS 361: Artificial Life and Digital Evolution (not offered 2026-27)
- CS 361*: Artificial Life and Digital Evolution (*=Junior Seminar)
- ECON 265: Game Theory and Economic Applications
- ECON 267: Behavioral Economics
- EDUC 234: Educational Psychology
- IDSC 250: Color!
- LING 117: Sociophonetics (not offered 2026-27)
- LING 216: Generative Approaches to Syntax
- LING 217: Phonetics and Phonology
- LING 219: Sociophonetic Analysis (not offered 2026-27)
- LING 240: Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics (not offered 2026-27)
- LING 275: First Language Acquisition
- LING 276: Between Languages: Heritage Speakers
- LING 280: Field Methods in Linguistics (not offered 2026-27)
- LING 311: The Spoken and Written Word
- LING 315: Topics in Syntax (not offered 2026-27)
- LING 325: Syntax of an Unfamiliar Language
- LING 340: Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics (not offered 2026-27)
- LING 350: Invented Languages: From Toki Pona to Na’vi (not offered 2026-27)
- MUSC 227: Perception and Cognition of Music
- NEUR 127: Foundations in Neuroscience and Lab
- NEUR 238: Neurons, Circuits and Behavior
- NEUR 365: Seminar: Topics in Neuroscience
- PHIL 100.02: Science, Faith and Rationality (26/FA)
- PHIL 112: Intelligence, Agency and Autonomous Machines
- PHIL 116: Sensation, Induction, Abduction, Deduction, Seduction (not offered 2026-27)
- PHIL 203: Bias, Belief, Community, Emotion (not offered 2026-27)
- PHIL 207: Japanese Philosophy: No Mind, No Life
- PHIL 217: Reason in Context: Limitations and Possibilities
- PHIL 223: Philosophy of Language (not offered 2026-27)
- PHIL 225: Philosophy of Mind (not offered 2026-27)
- PHIL 257: Contemporary Issues in Feminist Philosophy
- PHIL 297: Kant’s Philosophy of Mind
- PSYC 216: Behavioral Neuroscience
- PSYC 220: Sensation and Perception
- PSYC 234: Psychology of Language
- PSYC 238: Memory Processes (not offered 2026-27)
- PSYC 250: Developmental Psychology
- PSYC 258: Social Cognition
- PSYC 267: Clinical Neuroscience (not offered 2026-27)
- PSYC 361: Brains, Minds, and Machines
- PSYC 375: Language and Deception (not offered 2026-27)