Cognitive Science
The Cognitive Science Minor is designed for students who want to study thinking in all its forms.
A Cognitive Science Minor will help students to understand mind, intelligence, and cognition holistically and from multiple perspectives by bringing together and integrating diverse academic disciplines, especially Psychology, Philosophy, Computer Science, Modern Languages and Literatures (Linguistics), and Biology.
Program Requirements
The Cognitive Science Minor includes six courses: General Psychology (PSYC 1000), Fundamentals of Cognitive Science (PSYC 3040), and four other courses approved for the minor from at least three of the following disciplines: psychology, linguistics, neuroscience (offered in PSYC), philosophy, computer science, and biology. At least one of these courses must be an approved methods course. Of the six courses required for the minor, at least three must be upper-division.
Learning Outcomes
Understand how key concepts, theories, and methodologies from diverse disciplines such as biology, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, and philosophy contribute to the study of cognition/mind.
Be able to integrate theories and findings from different disciplines to form a coherent understanding of cognitive processes and solve complex problems.
Value the interdisciplinary study of the mind and intelligent behavior.
Faculty Committee
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David Hardy
Director of the Cognitive Science Minor
Psychological Science
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