To encourage breadth within the concentration, no more than four courses taken from a single department may be counted toward the minimum eight required.

Core Courses: (24 credits-four six-credit courses)

• CGST 130 Introduction to Cognitive Science OR CGST 230: Introduction to Cognitive Studies
• CGST/CS/LING/PHIL/PSYC 300 level Special Topics in Cognitive Studies (Note: This course would subsume some of the computer science, linguistics, philosophy or psychology seminars listed below.)

Plus any two of the following courses:

• LING 115 Introduction to Theory of Syntax
• PSYC 232/233 Cognitive Processes and Laboratory
• PHIL 210 Logic or CS 111 (formerly CS 117) Introduction to Computer Science

Elective Courses: (24 credits) from the following list. At least one must be a 300-level course. No more than four courses from any one department (or cross-listed with any one department) may be counted toward the concentration.

• BIOL 245 Animal Behavior
• BIO 365: Topics in Neuroscience
• BIO 368 Developmental Neurobiology
• BIOL 386 Neurobiology
• CS 254 Automata and Computability
• CS 321 Artificial Intelligence
• CS 322 Natural Language Processing
• CS 395 Robotics
• EDUC 234 Educational Psychology
• LING 215 Syntax of an Unfamiliar Language
• LING 217 Phonetics and Phonology
• LING 230 Language and Aspect
• LING 270 Language, Speech and Evolution
• LING 317 Topics in Phonology
• MUSC 235 Music Perception and Cognition
• PHIL 110 Mind and Knowledge
• PHIL 110 Cartesian Meditations
• PHIL 110 Evolution and Mind
• PHIL 212 Epistemology
• PHIL 220 Topics: Philosophy of Mind
• PHIL 220 Topics: Philosophy of Language
• PHIL 220 Topics: Induction and Scientific Reasoning
• PHIL 253 Philosophy of Cognitive Studies
• PHIL 281 Advanced Logic
• PSYC 215 Memory and Amnesia
• PSYC 216 Behavioral Neuroscience
• PSYC 220 Sensation and Perception
• PSYC 234/235 Psychology of Language
• PSYC 236 Thinking, Reasoning and Decision-Making
• PSYC 250 Developmental Psychology
• PSYC 258 Social Cognition
• PSYC 370: Topics in Cognition: Attenion and Consciousness
• PSYC 374 Eyewitness Testimony in Children
• PSYC 377 Research Seminar: Conversational Processes
• PSYC 375 Language and Deception
• PSYC 380 Cognitive Development During the Preschool Years
• PSYC 385 Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
• PSYC 386 Adolescent Cognitive Development
• SOAN 274 Language and Culture
• SOAN 260 Myth, Ritual, and Symbolism
• One other alternative entry point into the concentration is enrollment in the TRIAD--three linked sections of Psych 110, Bio 125, and Philo 110. TRIAD students may count successful completion as the equivalent of CGST 130 (or 230) plus ONE elective course.