Undergraduate Programs

Minor Programs

Minor in Philosophy

For questions about the Minor in Philosophy, please contact Prof. Lionel McPherson,who serves as advisor for the program.

The Minor in Philosophy requires the completion of six courses including:

ONE from:
- Phil. 1: Introduction to Philosophy
- Phil. 3: Language and Mind
- Phil. 6: Reasoning and Critical Thinking
- Phil. 24: Introduction to Ethics
- Phil. 33: Logic
- Phil. 39: Knowing and Being
- Phil. 43: Justice, Equality and Liberty
- Phil. 48: Feminist Philosophy
TWO courses at the 100-level, and
THREE other Philosophy courses

All courses used in fulfillment of a disciplinary minor at Tufts must be taken for a grade. No more than two courses used to fulfill a foundation, distribution, or concentration requirement may be counted toward fulfillment of the minor. Students may not complete both a minor and a concentration in the same discipline, nor may they enroll in more than one disciplinary minor.

Minor in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

For questions about the Minor in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, please contact Prof. Ray Jackendoff, who serves as advisor for the program.

The minor in Cognitive and Brain Sciences requires 7 courses, including:

PSYC 9 Introduction to Cognitive and Brain Sciences
PHIL 15 Introduction to Linguistics and/or
COMP 14 Computational Concepts in Biological and Cognitive Sciences
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.
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

Other courses may be admitted for the minor with the approval of the student’s advisor. PLEASE NOTE: At least 5 of the courses used to complete the minor must be in departments different from the student’s major. The selection of courses must be approved by the student’s advisor.

All courses used in fulfillment of a disciplinary minor at Tufts must be taken for a grade. No more than two courses used to fulfill a foundation, distribution, or concentration requirement may be counted toward fulfillment of the minor. Students may not complete both a minor and a concentration in the same discipline, nor may they enroll in more than one disciplinary minor.