Upcoming Courses

Course Offerings for Spring 2025 and Special Topics Courses

 12 units, including:

3 units-Core

Course

Course Title

PSYC100 Introduction to Psychological Science
PSYC200 Methods and Analyses 
CGSC299 Cognitive Science

4 units-Breadth Requirement: One course from each of these four areas:

Computer Science

CMSC105 Elementary Programming 
CMSC150 Introduction to Computing 

Linguistics

LING203 Introductory Linguistics
PSYC343 Psycholinguistics

Neuroscience - NONE

Philosophy

PHIL251 Elementary Symbolic Logic

5 additional units of electives, chosen from the courses below. At least 3 must be at the 300 level or above. Courses taken for breadth requirement do not count toward the requirement to take 3 courses at the 300 level.

ANTH101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
BIOL343 Neurobiology
CMSC105 Elementary Programming
CMSC150 Introduction to Computing
CMSC221 Data Structures
CMSC301 Computer Organization
CMSC327 Machine Learning
CMSC395 Natural Language Processing
DSST289 Introduction to Data Science
DSST389 Advanced Data Science
LING203 Introductory Linguistics
PHIL251 Elementary Symbolic Logic
PSYC343 Psycholinguistics
PSYC345 Sensation & Perception
PSYC353 Clinical Neuroscience
PSYC359 Data Visualization & Analysis
PSYC449 ADV SEM: Neuroplasticity

The courses listed below may also count as elective credit toward the major, but all cases must be approved by the Cognitive Science coordinator to ensure the topic of research is relevant to the Cognitive Science curriculum.  No more than two units of research-related coursework may be applied to the major. These courses typically do not satisfy the requirement that at least three electives must be at the 300 level or above. However, the Cognitive Science coordinator may in rare circumstances approve up to two of these courses as satisfying this requirement, provided that the scope of the project is sufficiently rigorous.

BIOL394 Undergraduate Research
CMSC340 Independent Research
LING390 Independent Research
PHIL390 Independent Research
PSYC300 Methods and Analyses Core Project
PSYC361 Independent Research
PSYC461-PSYC462 Senior Research
PSYC491-PSYC492 Honors Research