Major

Please note that PSYC UN2430 Cognitive Neuroscience may be used to fulfill either the Neuroscience requirement or the Psychology requirement, but not both. 

Please note that PSYC UN2430 Cognitive Neuroscience may be used to fulfill either the Neuroscience requirement or the Psychology requirement, but not both. 

Logic and Decision Theory

Statistics

Computer Science:

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• You should take COGS UN1001 Introduction to Cognitive Science before choosing your specialization.
   
• After you have taken COGS UN1001 Introduction to Cognitive Science and after you have declared your major, please submit the Specialization and Electives Form. After you complete the form your response will be emailed to you.  Please forward that email to the program director for your school, and copy Maia Bernstein at mbernste@barnard.edu. The program director will respond with either approval or suggestions for alternatives, and copy Maia so she can keep track of what’s been approved.
   
• You may need to submit the Specialization and Electives Form several times as your interests solidify and you find out which courses are offered each semester: that is fine!  Just please re-submit the form if and when your plans change, and please email the form to the program director and Maia every time you submit. (The reason we ask you to use the form instead of just emailing is that the form feeds to a google sheet, which makes it much easier for us to keep track of what’s been approved.)   
   
• If you want to count a course from another institution (transfer, study abroad, or summer course at another institution) for one of the five area requirements (psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, and mathematical and computational methods) then please submit the Transfer and Study Abroad Credit Approval Form; please then email the syllabus for the course as a PDF attachment to Maia Bernstein at mbernste@barnard.edu.
   
  • Please note that the course must have already been approved by your school (BC, CC, or GS) to count towards your degree requirements before it can be considered for your Cognitive Science major requirements. 
  • Please note that a maximum of four transfer courses may be counted towards the Cognitive Science major.
     
• If you want to count a course from another institution as an elective, then please list it on your Specialization and Electives Form AND attach a PDF of the syllabus for the course when you email the form to the program director. 
   
• Please submit the Capstone Requirements Form in March of your junior year to tell us your plans for your senior capstone requirement: either the details of your senior project, or the two additional advanced courses you plan to take. After you complete the form your response will be emailed to you. Please forward that email to the program director for your school, and copy Maia Bernstein at mbernste@barnard.edu. The program director will reply to let you know if your plan is approved.
   
  • If you are doing a senior project, you must register for your advisor’s section of COGS UN3903 Senior Project (fall) and COGS UN3904 Senior Project (spring).  If your advisor cannot be the instructor of record for some reason (for instance, if your advisor is at the medical school), then you may register for the program director’s section.
  • If you are doing a senior project you must also register for COGS UN3901 Senior Project Seminar (fall) and COGS UN3902 Senior Project Seminar (spring). 
     
• Please submit the Major Requirements Form for the first time in October of your senior year so that we can confirm you’re on track to graduate. 
   
• Please submit the Major Requirements Form a SECOND TIME in February of your senior year, after your last semester registration is finalized. You may have taken multiple courses which could count towards the same requirement and we’ll need to know exactly which course you want to count for which requirement when we certify you for graduation.  Please note that the courses that you list on the form to count towards your major are the courses we will include when we calculate your major GPA (which is taken into consideration for recommendations on Departmental Honors). 

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• Courses taken pass/fail may not count towards Cognitive Science major requirements.
   
• While some courses listed under the sample specializations are also on the lists of courses approved to count for area requirements, no course may be double counted: if you’re using a course to fulfill an area requirement then you cannot also count that course as an elective.