Cog Sci Major Reqs
Program Fun Facts
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Cog Sci History
100

The number of elective courses you must take.

What is 6?

100

CGSC shares an office suite with this department.

What is the PSYC department?

100

The three core CGSC faculty.

Who are Kathleen Galotti, Jason Decker, and Justin London?

100

This intellectual movement taking place in the mid-1900s marked a shift away from behaviorism and towards studying the mind.

What is the Cognitive Revolution?

200

Five non-CGSC courses that count towards the major.

What are...

  • BIOL 365: Seminar: Topics in Neuroscience
  • BIOL 368: Seminar: Developmental Neurobiology
  • BIOL 379: Seminar: Behavioral Genetics
  • BIOL 386: Neurobiology
  • CS 254: Computability and Complexity
  • CS 314: Data Visualization
  • CS 320: Machine Learning
  • CS 321: Making Decisions with Artificial Intelligence
  • CS 322: Natural Language Processing
  • CS 344: Human-Computer Interaction
  • CS 361: Artificial Life and Digital Evolution
  • ECON 265: Game Theory and Economic Applications
  • ECON 267: Behavioral Economics
  • EDUC 234: Educational Psychology
  • IDSC 250: Color!
  • LING 117: Sociophonetics
  • LING 150: From Esperanto to Dothraki: The Linguistics of Invented Languages
  • LING 216: Generative Approaches to Syntax
  • LING 217: Phonetics and Phonology
  • LING 240: Semantics and Pragmatics
  • LING 275: First Language Acquisition
  • LING 276: Bilingualism & Code-Switching
  • LING 280: Field Methods in Linguistics
  • LING 285: Japanese Linguistics in Kyoto Seminar: The Linguistics of the Japanese Writing System
  • LING 288: The Structure of Dakota
  • LING 315: Topics in Syntax
  • LING 316: Topics in Morphology
  • LING 317: Topics in Phonology
  • LING 325: Syntax of an Unfamiliar Language
  • LING 340: Topics in Semantics
  • LING 375: Second Language Acquisition: Speech
  • MUSC 227: Perception and Cognition of Music
  • NEUR 127: Foundations in Neuroscience and Lab
  • PHIL 116: Sensation, Induction, Abduction, Deduction, Seduction
  • PHIL 203: Bias, Belief, Community, Emotion
  • PHIL 217: Reason in Context: Limitations and Possibilities
  • PHIL 223: Philosophy of Language
  • PHIL 225: Philosophy of Mind
  • PHIL 251: Evidence, Objectivity, and Realism in the Sciences
  • PHIL 272: Early Modern Philosophy: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Philosophy
  • PHIL 273: Kant’s Metaphysics
  • PHIL 287: Conspiracy Theories and Dogmatism
  • PHIL 297: Kant’s Philosophy of Mind
  • PHIL 303: Bias, Belief, Community, Emotion
  • PHIL 306: Causation and Explanation
  • PHIL 373: Reptiles and Demons
  • PSYC 216: Behavioral Neuroscience
  • PSYC 220: Sensation and Perception
  • PSYC 234: Psychology of Language
  • PSYC 238: Memory Processes
  • PSYC 250: Developmental Psychology
  • PSYC 258: Social Cognition
  • PSYC 267: Clinical Neuroscience
  • PSYC 366: Cognitive Neuroscience
  • PSYC 367: Neuropsychology of Aging
  • PSYC 371: Evolutionary and Developmental Trends in Cognition
  • PSYC 375: Language and Deception
200

Before changing to "Cognitive Science" in 2008, the program went by this name.

What is "Cognitive Studies"?

200

This professor is a licensed obedience judge.

Who is Kathleen Galotti?

200

This philosophical idea posits that the mind and body are fundamentally distinct.

What is dualism?

300

The three courses that comprise the comps sequence.

What are...

3-credit proposal course

6-credit independent study/research course

3-credit CGSC 400 comps presentation credits

300

Your three incoming SDAS.

Who are Layevska, Maya, and Kieran?

300

This professor is obsessed with conspiracy theories (but swears they don't believe them).

Who is Jason Decker?

300

Name 5 subfields of linguistics.

What are syntax, phonology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, pragmatics, semantics, morphology, historical linguistics, and phonetics?

400

Courses all majors must complete by the start of their senior year.

What are CGSC 130, CGSC 232/233 and PSYC 200/201?

400

Five non-CGSC disciplines offering classes that count as electives in the major.

What are Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Education Studies, Computer Science, Biology, Neuroscience, Economics, and Music?

400

This professor wore a cape to their dissertation.

Who is J/Kinney?

400

This researcher developed the fundamental theory of language acquisition.

Who is Noam Chomsky?

500

Total credits required for the major.

What are 70?

500

The first Cognitive Science student ever at Carleton.

Who is Deanna Fierman?

500

This professor holds a bachelor's degree in Classical Guitar.

Who is Justin London?

500

This researcher argued that perception is a direct process, meaning sensations themselves are enough to create a complete representation of the world around us.

Who is J. J. Gibson?

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