Cognitive Sciences Program Courses

Students majoring in cognitive sciences must complete 5 core courses & 7 additional courses. Among the 7 additional courses, at least 3 and no more than 4 must be in a single area of concentration--linguistics, philosophy, psychology, or neuroscience. The core courses are listed below; to view the additional courses, click here.


Core Courses

The core courses are divided into five groups. Majors must take one course from each group.

Computer Science


Note: Though all of these courses may be used to satisfy the computer science core requirement, no more than one may be taken for credit within the major.

COMP 200

Elements of Computer Science. This is a general introduction for non-Computer Science majors. Many Cognitive Sciences students choose this course to fill the computational core course

COMP 140

Computational Thinking. This course is an introduction to the discipine of Computer Science specifically aimed at potential Computer Science majors

COMP 210

Principles of Computation and Programming. This course is the older COMP intro course, now discontinued by Computer Science. It is now being phased out of our program. Students who took this can still apply it to the Cognitive Sciences major

COMP 201

Principles of Object-Oriented Programming

CAAM 210

Introduction to Engineering Computation

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Psychology

PSYC 203

Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

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Linguistics

LING 200

Introduction to the Scientific Study of Language

LING 306

Language Thought and Mind

LING 315

Introduction to Semantics

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Philosophy

PHIL 103

Philosophical Aspects of Cognitive Science

PHIL 305

Mathematical Logic

PHIL 312

Philosophy of Mind

Advanced Psychology

PSYC 308

Memory

PSYC 309

Psychology of Language

PSYC 351

Psychology of Perception

PSYC 360

Thinking

PSYC 362

Biopsychology

PSYC 430

Computational Modeling of Cognitive Processes

PSYC 432

Brain and Behavior

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Note: The additional courses are provided on a separate page.