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