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. PSYC 29 Introduction to Cognitive and Brain Sciences
   
   
2. PHIL 15 Introduction to Linguistics and/or
   COMP 14 Computational Concepts in Biological and Cognitive Sciences
   
   
3. PSYC 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:
   
   
   1. Psychology courses:
      
      PSYC 11. Developmental Psychology
      PSYC 25 or 103. Physiological Psychology
      PSYC 26. Animal learning and cognition
      PSYC 27. Perception
      PSYC 28. Cognitive Psychology
      CD 51. Intellectual Development of Young Children
      PSYC 129. Cognitive Neuroscience
      PSYC 124. Cognitive Neuroscience of Perception
      PSYC 148. Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning and Memory
      PSYC 126. Origins of Cognition
      PSYC 140. Mathematical Psychology
      PSYC 144. Memory and Retention
      PSYC 146. Comparative Cognition and Behavior
      PSYC 139. Social Cognition
      PSYC 142. Seminar in Affective Neuroscience
      PSYC 154. Psychosis
      
      
   2. Philosophy, 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
      
      
   3. 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