Choose Your Path: Neuroscience or Cognitive Science
NSCS students will choose one of two tracks in the NSCS curriculum: Neuroscience or Cognitive Science.
The curriculum has a substantial common core group of foundation courses and NSCS core courses that give them a solid foundation in both Neuroscience and Cognitive Science.
All students have:
- a science foundation in biology, chemistry and physics;
- a psychology/philosophy foundation focusing on the mind of the individual;
- and a mathematics foundation in calculus, statistics and basic programming.
- the gateway course NSCS 200: Fundamentals of Neuroscience and Cognitive Science.
As NSCS majors, students go beyond the common core courses by taking additional core course that are specific to the track in which they are interested. These additional upper division courses in each track are designed to enhance student knowledge and skills in the chosen content area. Finally, the program includes emphasis areas that constitute groups of courses aligned by theme. These are elective courses within the major that allow students to customize the program to their own interests. They also give students the opportunity to substantially increase their depth of knowledge in a particular sub-area of neuroscience and cognitive science. Students are encouraged to include independent or directed research as part of their study with their chosen emphasis.
| NSCS Track Requirements | |
Neuroscience CHEM 152 - General Chemistry II CHEM 241A & 243A - Organic Chemistry I PHYS 103 & 182 - General Physics II Lecture & Lab NROS 310 - Molecular and Cellular Biology of Neurons NROS 418 - Fundamental Principles in Systems Neuroscience | Cognitive Science CGSC 344 - Modeling the Mind, Computational Models of Cognition Three (3) courses from at least two (2) of the following categories*:
Two (2) Cognition Emphasis Courses *see below for options |
| Cognitive Science Elective Course Options | ||
Cognitive Psychology LING 440 - The Bilingual Mind PSY 333 - Judgement and Decision-Making PSY 340 - Intro to Cognitive Development PSY 426 - Advanced Human Memory PSY 429 - Advanced Perception | Linguistics LING 201 - Introduction to Linguistics LING 341- Language Development LING 432 - Psychology of Language LING 449A - Biolinguistics | Philosophy PHIL 202 - Introduction to Symbolic Logic PHIL 346 - Minds, Brains and Computers PHIL 442 - Knowledge and Cognition PHIL 450 - Philosophy of Mind |