Requirements for the Cognitive Science Minor

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 eight courses required.

Core Courses: (26 credits of four six-credit courses plus one two-credit lab course)

  • CGSC 130 Introduction to Cognitive Science
  • CGSC 232/CGSC 233/PSYC 232/PSYC 233 Cognitive Processes and Laboratory in Cognitive Processes (8 credits)

           Plus any two of the following courses:

Elective Courses: 24 credits from the following list. 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
  • 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 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 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
  • RELG 270 Philosophy of Religion