Requirements for the Cognitive Science Major

*CGSC 391/392 is now CGSC 399!*

Total credits required for the major: 70

Required courses: 46 credits

Elective Courses: 24 credits from the following list. At least two 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 · not offered in 2024-25
  • BIOL 379: Seminar: Behavioral Genetics · not offered in 2024-25
  • BIOL 386: Neurobiology · not offered in 2024-25
  • CGSC 100: Living with Artificial Intelligence
  • CGSC 236: Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making · not offered in 2024-25
  • CGSC 253: Philosophy of Cognitive Science · not offered in 2024-25
  • CGSC 330: Embodied Cognition
  • CGSC 336: Moral Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making · not offered in 2024-25
  • CGSC 340: Phenomenology and Cognitive Science · not offered in 2024-25
  • CGSC 382: Cognitive Development in Children and Adolescents · not offered in 2024-25
  • CS 254: Computability and Complexity
  • CS 314: Data Visualization
  • CS 320: Machine Learning
  • CS 321: Making Decisions with Artificial Intelligence
  • CS 322: Natural Language Processing
  • CS 344: Human-Computer Interaction
  • CS 361: Artificial Life and Digital Evolution
  • ECON 265: Game Theory and Economic Applications
  • ECON 267: Behavioral Economics
  • ECON 395: Adv. Topics in Economics · not offered in 2024-25
  • EDUC 234: Educational Psychology
  • IDSC 250: Color!
  • LING 117: Sociophonetics · not offered in 2024-25
  • LING 150: From Esperanto to Dothraki: The Linguistics of Invented Languages · not offered in 2024-25
  • LING 216: Generative Approaches to Syntax
  • LING 217: Phonetics and Phonology
  • LING 219: Sociophonetic Analysis
  • LING 240: Semantics and Pragmatics · not offered in 2024-25
  • LING 275: First Language Acquisition · not offered in 2024-25
  • LING 276: Bilingualism & Code-Switching · not offered in 2024-25
  • LING 315: Topics in Syntax
  • LING 316: Topics in Morphology · not offered in 2024-25
  • LING 317: Topics in Phonology · not offered in 2024-25
  • LING 325: Syntax of an Unfamiliar Language · not offered in 2024-25
  • LING 340: Topics in Semantics · not offered in 2024-25
  • LING 375: Second Language Acquisition: Speech · not offered in 2024-25
  • MUSC 227: Perception and Cognition of Music
  • NEUR 127: Foundations in Neuroscience and Lab
  • PHIL 116: Sensation, Induction, Abduction, Deduction, Seduction
  • PHIL 203: Bias, Belief, Community, Emotion · not offered in 2024-25
  • PHIL 217: Reason in Context: Limitations and Possibilities · not offered in 2024-25
  • PHIL 223: Philosophy of Language · not offered in 2024-25
  • PHIL 225: Philosophy of Mind · not offered in 2024-25
  • PHIL 257: Contemporary Issues in Feminist Philosophy
  • PHIL 272: Early Modern Philosophy: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Philosophy · not offered in 2024-25
  • PHIL 287: Conspiracy Theories and Dogmatism · not offered in 2024-25
  • PHIL 297: Kant’s Philosophy of Mind · not offered in 2024-25
  • PHIL 303: Bias, Belief, Community, Emotion · not offered in 2024-25
  • PHIL 373: Reptiles and Demons · not offered in 2024-25
  • PSYC 216: Behavioral Neuroscience
  • PSYC 220: Sensation and Perception
  • PSYC 234: Psychology of Language
  • PSYC 238: Memory Processes · not offered in 2024-25
  • PSYC 250: Developmental Psychology · not offered in 2024-25
  • PSYC 258: Social Cognition · not offered in 2024-25
  • PSYC 267: Clinical Neuroscience · not offered in 2024-25
  • PSYC 366: Cognitive Neuroscience · not offered in 2024-25
  • PSYC 367: Neuropsychology of Aging
  • PSYC 371: Evolutionary and Developmental Trends in Cognition · not offered in 2024-25
  • PSYC 375: Language and Deception · not offered in 2024-25
  • RELG 270: Philosophy of Religion · not offered in 2024-25