Requirements for the Cognitive Science Major
Total credits required for the major: 70
Required courses: 46 credits
- CGSC 130 Introduction to Cognitive Science (6 credits)
- CGSC 232/CGSC 233/PSYC 232/PSYC 233 Cognitive Processes and Laboratory in Cognitive Processes (8 credits)
- CS 111 Introduction to Computer Science or PHIL 210 Logic (6 credits)
- LING 115 Introduction to Theory of Syntax (6 credits)
- PSYC 200/201 Measurement and Data Analysis (8 credits)
- CGSC 391/392 (6 credits)
- CGSC 396 Directed Research in Cognitive Studies (3 credits)
- CGSC 400 Integrative Exercise (3 credits)
Note: Prior to beginning the comps sequence, majors must normally have completed CGSC 130, CGSC 232/233 and PSYC 200/201
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
- BIOL 379: Seminar: Behavioral Genetics · not offered in 2023-24
- BIOL 386: Neurobiology · not offered in 2023-24
- CGSC 100: Cognitive Development in Childhood
- CGSC 236: Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making · not offered in 2023-24
- CGSC 253: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- CGSC 330: Embodied Cognition · not offered in 2023-24
- CGSC 336: Moral Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making · not offered in 2023-24
- CGSC 340: Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
- CGSC 382: Cognitive Development in Children and Adolescents · not offered in 2023-24
- CS 254: Computability and Complexity
- CS 314: Data Visualization
- CS 320: Machine Learning
- CS 321: Making Decisions with Artificial Intelligence · not offered in 2023-24
- CS 322: Natural Language Processing · not offered in 2023-24
- CS 344: Human-Computer Interaction
- CS 361: Artificial Life and Digital Evolution · not offered in 2023-24
- ECON 265: Game Theory and Economic Applications
- ECON 267: Behavioral Economics
- EDUC 234: Educational Psychology
- IDSC 250: Color! · not offered in 2023-24
- LING 117: Sociophonetics · not offered in 2023-24
- LING 150: From Esperanto to Dothraki: The Linguistics of Invented Languages · not offered in 2023-24
- LING 216: Generative Approaches to Syntax
- LING 217: Phonetics and Phonology
- LING 240: Semantics and Pragmatics · not offered in 2023-24
- LING 275: First Language Acquisition
- LING 276: Bilingualism & Code-Switching · not offered in 2023-24
- LING 280: Field Methods in Linguistics · not offered in 2023-24
- LING 285: Japanese Linguistics in Kyoto Seminar: The Linguistics of the Japanese Writing System · not offered in 2023-24
- LING 288: The Structure of Dakota · not offered in 2023-24
- LING 315: Topics in Syntax · not offered in 2023-24
- LING 316: Topics in Morphology · not offered in 2023-24
- LING 317: Topics in Phonology · not offered in 2023-24
- LING 325: Syntax of an Unfamiliar Language
- LING 340: Topics in Semantics
- LING 375: Second Language Acquisition: Speech · not offered in 2023-24
- MUSC 227: Perception and Cognition of Music · not offered in 2023-24
- NEUR 127: Foundations in Neuroscience and Lab
- PHIL 116: Sensation, Induction, Abduction, Deduction, Seduction
- PHIL 203: Bias, Belief, Community, Emotion · not offered in 2023-24
- PHIL 217: Reason in Context: Limitations and Possibilities
- PHIL 223: Philosophy of Language
- PHIL 225: Philosophy of Mind · not offered in 2023-24
- PHIL 251: Evidence, Objectivity, and Realism in the Sciences · not offered in 2023-24
- PHIL 272: Early Modern Philosophy: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Philosophy
- PHIL 273: Kant’s Metaphysics · not offered in 2023-24
- PHIL 287: Conspiracy Theories and Dogmatism · not offered in 2023-24
- PHIL 297: Kant’s Philosophy of Mind
- PHIL 303: Bias, Belief, Community, Emotion · not offered in 2023-24
- PHIL 306: Causation and Explanation · not offered in 2023-24
- PHIL 373: Reptiles and Demons · not offered in 2023-24
- PSYC 216: Behavioral Neuroscience
- PSYC 220: Sensation and Perception
- PSYC 234: Psychology of Language · not offered in 2023-24
- PSYC 238: Memory Processes
- PSYC 250: Developmental Psychology
- PSYC 258: Social Cognition · not offered in 2023-24
- PSYC 267: Clinical Neuroscience · not offered in 2023-24
- PSYC 366: Cognitive Neuroscience
- PSYC 367: Neuropsychology of Aging · not offered in 2023-24
- PSYC 371: Evolutionary and Developmental Trends in Cognition · not offered in 2023-24
- PSYC 375: Language and Deception