Master's Program Information

Concentration in Cognitive Development

The M.A. concentration in Cognitive Development is intended to prepare students to: continue their studies beyond the M.A. in the field of cognitive development; participate in applied fields where cognitive development is an appropriate background; and acquire a set of techniques and skills that will contribute to their development as researchers and/or practitioners.

The course requirements for the M.A. concentration in Cognitive Development are as follows:

1. CD 151 Advanced Intellectual Development
2. Developmental Psychology course outside field of cognitive development
   (e.g., personal-social development, physiological development, etc.)
   
3. CD 142 Problems of Research: Methods and Design
4. CD 144 Qualitative and Ethnographic Methods
   *CD 247 Program Evaluation may count as a Research Methods course, if the student's interests are in social policy.
   
5. Three Concentration Electives
6. Two Open Electives (CD 140 Statistics required for M.A. Thesis)
7. Internship or Thesis related to cognitive development

*Note: All students must check with their Program Advisers to determine which Research Methods courses best fit their program goals.

M.A. and Ph.D. Cognitive Development Concentration Electives:

Child Development

• CD 145/ED182 Technological Tools for Thinking and Learning
• CD 152 Development of Thought and Language
• CD 153 Culture and Learning: Issues for Education
• CD 155 The Young Child's Development of Language
• CD 156 Applied Aspects of Physiological Development
• CD 158 Psychological Study of Creativity
• CD 251 Seminar in Intellectual Development
• CD 253 Advanced Seminar in Piagetian Psychology

Computer Science

• CDC 131 Artificial Intelligence

Education

• ED 112 Mathematics Learning Environments
• ED 130 Human Development and Learning
• ED 243 Assessment and Diagnosis of Cognitive Abilities

Philosophy

• PH 103 Logic
• PH 131 Epistemology
• PH 133 Philosophy of Language
• PH 170 Computation Theory

Psychology

• PY 103 Brain and Behavior
• PY 129 Cognitive Neuroscience
• PY 144 Memory and Retention
• PY 146 Comparative Cognitive and Behavior
• PY 149 Psychology of Language
• PY 232 Core Course in Cognitive Psychology
• PY 243 Structure and Process in Cognitive Theory
• PY 244 Cognition and Learning
• PY 247 Cognition

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