Cognitive Studies

Undergraduate Minor
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Program Delivery
Online
Total Credits
18 Credits

About the Program

Cognitive Studies Minor

Cognitive Studies is an interdisciplinary area of research concerned with understanding the nature and development of intelligent capacities such as perception, language, reasoning, planning, problem-solving, and related skills.

Focus of Study

The Cognitive Studies program examines different approaches to questions concerning the nature of mind, the representation of knowledge, the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language, the development of learning and intelligence, the use of information to draw inferences and make decisions, and the assessment of “goodness of fit” between purportedly similar systems (e.g., the computer and the mind).

Cognitive studies contact: Professor Dorothea Olkowski, dolkowsk@uccs.edu.

Program Requirements

General Requirements

  • 18 credit hours of coursework, 9 of which must be upper-division (3000+ level)
  • All courses must be completed with a grade of C- or better
  • A minimum GPA of 2.0 is required to complete the minor

Program Coursework

For additional details regarding program coursework, please visit the Academic Catalog.

Area Course Credit Hours
Cognitive Studies Core

Complete 4 courses from the following:

  • ANTH 4310 - Cognitive Evolution
  • BIOL 1000 - Biology in the Modern World
  • PHIL 3330 - Emotion and Cognition
  • PHIL 3340 - Love and Hate: Philosophy, Literature, & Cognitive Science
  • PHIL 3390 - Philosophy of Psychology
  • PHIL 4040 - Phenomenology
  • PHIL 4200 - Consciousness
  • PSY 3130 - Learning and Cognition
  • PSY 3270 - Introduction to Biopsychology
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Cognitive Studies Electives

Complete an additional (6) hours of unused courses from the list below to fulfill total and upper-division hour requirements for the minor.

  • ANTH 2800 - The Nature of Language
  • PHIL 3170 - Epistemology
  • PHIL 3300 - Philosophy of Mind
  • PHIL 3330 - Emotion and Cognition
  • PHIL 3340 - Love and Hate: Philosophy, Literature, & Cognitive Science
  • PHIL 3420 - Symbolic Logic I
  • PHIL 3560 - Modern Classical Philosophy
  • PHIL 3570 - Kant and the Enlightenment
  • PHIL 4060 - Mid 20th Century European Philosophy
  • PHIL 4400 - Philosophy of Science
  • PHIL 4410 - Philosophy of Biology
  • PHIL 4420 - Symbolic Logic II
  • PHIL 4490 - Philosophy of Language

Additional Electives for non-PSY majors
The following courses are open to non-PSY majors:

  • PSY 3140 - Cognitive Psychology
  • PSY 3200 - Psychology of Learning
  • PSY 3480 - Selected Topics in Psychology
  • PSY 3620 - Developmental Psychology
  • PSY 3650 - Clinical Neuropsychology
  • PSY 4050 - Physiological Psychology
  • PSY 4170 - Sensation and Perception
  • PSY 4220 - Introduction to Language Behavior

Additional Electives for PSY majors
The following courses are open only to PSY majors:

  • PSY 4130 - Seminar in Learning and Cognition
  • PSY 4270 - Seminar in Biopsychology
  • PSY 4280 - Seminar in Abnormal Psychology
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