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Minor in Philosophy
The minor in Philosophy requires the completion
of six courses, including:
1 One of Phil 1, 3, 6, 24, 33, 39, 43, or 48
2. Two Philosophy courses at the 100 level
3. Three other Philosophy courses
Minor in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
The minor in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
requires 7 courses. At least 5 of these must be in
departments different from the student’s major.
The selection of courses must be approved by the
student’s advisor.
1) PSY 9 Introduction to Cognitive and Brain
Sciences
2) PHIL 15 Introduction to Linguistics and/or
COMP 14 Computational Concepts in Biological
and Cognitive Sciences
3) PSY 195 Senior Seminar in Cognitive and Brain
Sciences (full year, one course credit). Students
minoring in Cognitive and Brain Sciences will be
expected either to present a research paper or to
participate as a Research Assistant in the presentation
of research by a faculty member, a graduate
student, or a senior.
4) The remainder of the 7 courses are to be selected
from at least 2 of the following groups:
a. Psychology courses
PSY 11 Developmental Psychology
PSY 25 Physiological Psychology or
PSY 103 Brain and Behavior
PSY 26 Animal Learning and Cognition
PSY 27 Perception
PSY 28 Cognitive Psychology
CD 51 Intellectual Development of Young Children
PSY 129 Cognitive Neuroscience
PSY 124 Cognitive Neuroscience of Perception
PSY 148 Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning and
Memory
PSY 126 Origins of Cognition
PSY 140 Mathematical Psychology
PSY 144 Memory and Retention
PSY 146 Comparative Cognition and Behavior
PSY 139 Social Cognition
PSY 142 Seminar in Affective Neuroscience
PSY 154 Psychosis
b. PHIL, linguistics and psycholinguistics courses
PHIL 3 Language and Mind
PHIL 33 Logic
PHIL 38 Rational Choice
PHIL 103 Logic
PHIL 111 Semantics
PHIL 112 Syntactic Theory
PHIL 113/PSYC 132 Cognition of Society and Culture
PHIL 114 Topics in Logic
PHIL 117 Philosophy of Mind
PHIL 126 Theories of Human Nature
PHIL 133 Philosophy of Language
PHIL 134 Philosophy of Social Science
PHIL 186 Phenomenology and Existentialism
PSYC 149 Psychology of Language
CD 155 The Young Child’s Development of Language
CD 195 Developmental Disorders in Language and
Reading
ED/ML/GER 114 Linguistic Approaches to Second
Language Acquisition
c. Computer Science courses
COMP 80 Programming Languages
COMP 131 Artificial Intelligence
COMP 135 Machine Learning and Data Mining
COMP 150 Computational Learning Theory
COMP/PHIL 170 Computation Theory
COMP 171 Human Computer Interaction
Other courses may be admitted for the minor with
the approval of the student’s advisor and advisor
notification of the DARS coordinator at Student
Services.
Minor in Linguistics
The minor in Linguistics has three components.
First, it offers students a grounding in contemporary
linguistic theory and its constituent domains of
phonology (sound structure), morphology (word
structure), syntax (grammatical structure), and
semantics (the structure of meaning), with attention
to a great variety found among languages of the
world. Second, the minor addresses the interaction
of the study of language with the fields as diverse as
philosophy, literature, child development, neuroscience,
and evolutionary theory. Third, as part of the
appreciation of linguistic diversity, the minor
requires students to develop proficiency in one or
more foreign languages.
Six courses are required, of which no more than
two may also be used for credit toward the student’s
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