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College Catalog 2018-2019 
    
College Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Cognitive Science Minor


Student Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

  • Students will demonstrate a basic understanding of the methodology used by biologists, psychologists, computer scientists, and philosophers to address questions of mind/brain and information processing.
  • Students will demonstrate a fundamental understanding of experimental design and methodologies commonly used in the field of cognitive science (e.g. fMRI, ERP, computational modeling and statistics) through both oral and written assignments.
  • Students will be able to demonstrate an ability to synthesize research findings from an array of disciplines in the cognitive sciences in the evaluation of a question surrounding the mind/brain or information processing as part of a senior capstone seminar.

For further information, contact the Cognitive Science Minor Advisor, Dr. Michael Silberstein, Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Legal Studies.