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Psychology

PSYC 2150: Introduction to Cognition

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Course Attributes: Living Systems

Description of course contents:
Cognition is the activity of knowing: the acquisition, organization, and use of knowledge. Emphasizing fundamental issues, this course introduces such basic content areas in cognitive psychology as perception, memory, language, cognitive development, and philosophy of science. An optional weekly review session is offered for those who wish to attend.
Instructor: Mariana Golino

PSYC 2500-001: Topics in Psychology: Psychology of Misinformation

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Course Attributes:

Description of course contents:
Instructor: Hudson Golino

PSYC 4100: Neuroscience of Learning, Emotions, and Motivation of Functional Behavior

*Note: PSYC 4100 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Instructor consent required.
Course Attributes: Living Systems

Description of course contents:
Learning, Emotions and Motivation will be explored from animal models of clinical conditions, historical case studies in humans of brain-derived emotional disturbances, and current innovations to treat brain disorders. These important discoveries will be presented for students to understand underlying biological and neural mechanisms that mediate adaptive changes to motivate healthy behavior.
Instructor: Cedric Williams

PSYC 4260: RM: Genetic and Epigenetic Research in Behavior

*Note: PSYC 4260 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Course Attributes:

Description of course contents:
We will discuss basic concepts in genetics/epigenetics and the role these molecular modifications play in behavior and disorder. We will evaluate empirical papers and learn the molecular techniques described within them. Completion of this course should result in increased knowledge of the use of genome level data in psychology and biology.
Instructor: Jessica Connelly

PSYC 5326: The Neuroscience of Social Relationships

*Note: PSYC 5326 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PYSC 2005 or 3005. PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050 recommended.
Course Attributes:

Description of course contents:
This course will provide a broad overview of neuroscientific research into social relationships. The field is relatively new, and changing quickly. After a brief review of the neuroscientific methods we are likely to encounter in this literature, the course will be oriented toward readings and discussion, with brief research proposals presented at the end. PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050 recommended.
Instructor: James Coan

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Neuroscience

PSYC 3210: RM: Psychobiology Laboratory

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL 3050 (formerly BIOL 3170) or PSYC 2200 or PSYC 4200 or PSYC 3200. PSYC 3005
Course Attributes: Living Systems

Description of course contents:
Develops skills necessary for the study of neural bases of behavior, such as brain dissection, electrophysiology, histology, behavioral analysis, and genetic/epigenetic analyses. Emphasis is on mastering contemporary techniques used in neuroscience research and effective, professional written presentation of research findings.
Instructor: Erin Clabough

PSYC 3559-001: Imag(in)e Neurons: Inferring Brain Function from Structure

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: -
Course Attributes: -

Description of course contents:
Imag(in)e Neurons is a practical crash course on the applications of confocal imaging in modern behavioral neuroscience. It is designed to introduce you to the basic principles of confocal imaging and sample preparation, as well as the analysis and interpretation of confocal imaging data.
Instructor: Adema Ribic

PSYC 4100: Neuroscience of Learning, Emotions, and Motivation of Functional Behavior

*Note: PSYC 4100 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Instructor consent required.
Course Attributes: Living Systems

PSYC 4260: RM: Genetic and Epigenetic Research in Behavior

*Note: PSYC 4260 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Course Attributes:

PSYC 4559-001: Research Methods in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year psyc or cogsci students
Course Attributes:

Description of course contents:

This course offers an introduction to and practical experience with developmental cognitive neuroscience techniques. The course will be laboratory based and will give students experience with collection and analysis of neuroscientific data. Our primary goal will be to understand how human neuroscience techniques may inform our understanding of the developing brain. We will focus on three techniques: electroencephalography (EEG), functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We will consider each technique in detail through brief course lectures, readings, and laboratory demonstrations with particular emphasis on implementing these techniques with developing populations. Students will leave the course with an understanding of methodological considerations for data collecting involving developmental populations, and hands-on experience collecting and analyzing neuroscientific data

Instructor: Meghan Puglia

PSYC 5326: The Neuroscience of Social Relationships

*Note: PSYC 5326 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PYSC 2005 or 3005. PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050 recommended.
Course Attributes:

Fall 2023

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Psychology

PSYC 2005-1 & 2: Research Methods & Data Analysis I
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Enrollment restrictions: None
Description of course contents: Introduces research methods in psychology, integrating statistical analysis.
Instructor:

PSYC 2150: Introduction to Cognition

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: None
Description of course contents: Cognition is the activity of knowing: the acquisition, organization, and use of knowledge. Emphasizing fundamental issues, this course introduces such basic content areas in cognitive psychology as perception, memory, language, cognitive development, and philosophy of science.
Instructor: Willingham

PSYC 3006: Research Methods & Data Analysis II
Credits: 4 (Required lab)
Prerequisites: PSYC 2005 or 3005 STAT ? with a grade of C or higher

Enrollment restrictions: Must have taken PSYC 2005 or 3005
Description of course contents: Introduction to research methods in psychology, integrating statistical analysis. Emphasis on descriptive statistics and non-experimental research methods. Use of computers for data analysis, experimentation, and report writing. This course is the first part of a two-part series (2005 and 3006).
Instructor:

PSYC 3100-1: Learning and the Neuroscience of Behavior
*Note: PSYC 3100 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: None
Description of course contents: The course will examine historical and current theories of learning that provide the foundation for most, if not all forms of an organism's behavior. Students will be exposed to a diverse range of experimental findings that led to principles and concepts that currently explain how environmental, social and emotional factors influence the brain and body to shape human and animal behavior.

Instructor: Williams

PSYC 3160: Cognitive Neuroscience
*Note: PSYC 3160 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Description of course contents: This course is intended as a survey of cognitive neuroscience, with an emphasis on breadth. Each week we will cover one sub-area or topic within cognitive neuroscience including perception, attention, memory, cognitive control and others. Readings will be chapters from the textbooks with few supplemental journal articles. Psyc 1010 is recommended but not required.

Instructor: Long

PSYC 3310: R Applications in Psychology (2 Sections)

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Enrollment restrictions: None
Description of course contents: Online course This course serves as both an introduction to the R programming language for those who haven't had any previous R background, as well as a refresher and an extension of R topics for those who have taken an intro to R course (i.e., STAT 1601 or PSYC 3006) previously or concurrently. This course is specially tailored to those who have an interest in psychology, with the purpose of preparing students to use R for their psychological research.
Instructor: Meyer

PSYC 4100 Neuroscience of Learning, Emotions and Motivation of Functional Behavior-

*Note: PSYC 4100 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Students must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology, Cognitive Science, or Neuroscience major.
Description of course contents: Learning, Emotions and Motivation will be explored from animal models of clinical conditions, historical case studies in humans of brain-derived emotional disturbances, and current innovations to treat brain disorders. These important discoveries will be presented for students to understand underlying biological and neural mechanisms that mediate adaptive changes to motivate healthy behavior.

Instructor: Williams

PSYC 4155: Autism: From Neurons to Neighborhoods
*Note: PSYC 4155 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science or Neuroscience major.
Description of course contents: In this interdisciplinary seminar, we will discuss recent research on autism at multiple levels (biological, cognitive, social) and from multiple perspectives (autistic individuals, scientists, disability studies scholars, families, schools, community/government organizations).

Instructor: Jaswal

PSYC 4215 Computational Methods in Psychology and Neuroscience

*Note: This course- may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment is not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course per semester and student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science major.
Description of course contents: This class provides a hands-on introduction to applied data science in Psychology and Neuroscience with Python. Students will learn to design and code experiments, collect and process data, and analyze and visualize results, all with freely-available, cross-platform, open-source Python libraries. Advanced topics will include applications of optimization, machine learning, and statistics libraries.

Instructor: Sederberg

PSYC 4290: Memory Distortions

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psyc, Cognitive Science, Neurosci major

Description of course contents: Although memory is generally accurate, some illusions and distortions in remembering are unavoidable. We will review both neuroscience and cognitive research on a variety of different memory problems, ranging from relatively benign tip-of-the-tongue experiences to untrustworthy eye-witness testimony. Our ultimate goal will be to understand the neural basis and cognitive processes that contribute to these constructive memory phenomena.

Instructor: Dodson

PSYC 4310: Cognitive Aging
Credits: 3

Instructor: Teles Santos Golino

PSYC 4420: Brain Mapping with MRI
*Note: PSYC 4420 may be used to fulfill either the COGS Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050 or PSYC 3160
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psyc, Cognitive Science, Neurosci major

Description of course contents: Human neuroimaging technologies and analytics methods enable exploration of the form, function, and connectivity of the living brain. Students will gain familiarity with the origins of brain imaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), be able to discuss the technical foundations of image reconstruction, view and process raw neuroimaging structural and time-series data,and make inferences about the brain in health and in disease.

Instructor: Van Horn

PSYC 4500-001 Origins of the Human Mind
*Note: PSYC 4500-001 Origins of the Human Mind may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: 3rd or 4th year Psychology Majors and Cognitive Science Majors
Description of course contents: This course provides insights into the developmental and brain origins of the human mind by engaging with major new discoveries from infancy researchers across the world
Instructor: Grossman

PSYC 4500-003 Neuroscience of Well-Being
*Note: PSYC 4500-003 Neuroscience of Well Being may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: 3rd or 4th year Psychology Majors and Cognitive Science Majors
Description of course contents: This course explores the neural mechanisms underlying thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that contribute to health and well-being throughout the lifespan. We will discuss science-based, actionable tools for enhancing personal well-being ranging from social connection to sleep
Instructor: Brindley

PSYC 5326 The Neuroscience of Social Relationships
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2005 and
Enrollment Restrictions: Student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science or Neuroscience major or Grad Arts and Sciences
Description of course contents: This course will provide a broad overview of neuroscientific research into social relationships. The field is relatively new, and changing quickly. After a brief review of the neuroscientific methods we are likely to encounter in this literature, the course will be oriented toward readings and discussion, with brief research proposals presented at the end. PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050 recommended.
Instructor: Coan

EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Enrollment restrictions: Enrollment is not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course (except PSYC 4910-4980) per semester and student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science major.

*Note: EDHS 4300 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Linguistics area requirement, but not both. Either PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Loncke) or EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication (Loncke) may be taken for credit, but not both.

Description of course contents: This course focuses on the psychological processes that underlie the acquisition and the use of language. There is an emphasis on the interaction between linguistic skills and other cognitive skills. The course also looks at flexibility of language and language use, and the influence of psycholinguistic processes on reading and writing, the social use of language, and language in other modalities. There will be a focus on learnability and teachability issues. Content: the course will provide insight in (1) acquisition and learnability, (2) the biopsychology of language (neuro-linguistics, linguistic genetics) (3) the microgenesis of speech (the Levelt model), (4) perceptual processes, (5) expressive mechanisms, (6) multimodality, (7) bilingualism and variation, (8) interaction between language and cognition (9) a psycholinguistic approach to breakdown (i.e., pathology).

Instructor: Loncke

EDLF 5260 Cognitive Psychology and Education

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Enrollment restrictions: None
Description of course contents: This course will include both cognitive psychology and education perspectives, focusing on what cognitive psychology can tell us about how people learn and how to apply that knowledge in education. We will focus on the ways that cognitive psychology research can be designed and evaluated to be most informative in addressing practical questions of education and learning, including research questions, populations, methods, etc.

Instructor: Jirout

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Neuroscience

PSYC 2200-1: Survey of Neural Basis
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Enrollment Restrictions: None
Description of course contents: After an overview of brain organization and function, the course examines what we know about the physiological bases of several behaviors including sensation and perception, learning, memory, sleep development, hunger, thirst, and emotions. An optional weekly review session is offered for those who wish to attend. Must sign up for lab section

Instructor:

Instructor: Williams

PSYC 3160: Cognitive Neuroscience
*Note: PSYC 2160 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Instructor: Long

PSYC 3235-001: Introduction to Epigenetics

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or PSYC 3200 or BIOL 3050

Enrollment Restrictions:

Description of course contents: This course is a didactic, mechanistic exploration of epigenetics; we will discuss all epigenetic modifications known to date, the processes through which they are established and modified and their impact on the cell and organism.

Instructor: Connelly

PSYC 4100 Neuroscience of Learning, Emotions and Motivation of Functional Behavior-

*Note: PSYC 4100 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Instructor: Williams

PSYC 4155: Autism: From Neurons to Neighborhoods
*Note: PSYC 4155 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.Credits: 3

Instructor: Jaswal

PSYC 4215 Computational Methods in Psychology and Neuroscience

Instructor: Sederberg

PSYC 4420: Brain Mapping with MRI
*Note: PSYC 4420 may be used to fulfill either the COGS Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050 or PSYC 3160
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psyc, Cognitive Science, Neurosci major

Instructor: Van Horn

PSYC 5280: Neuropsychopharmacology
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 4200 or BIOL 3050
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC or COGS or Neuroscience majors
Description of course contents: Combines the study of the synaptic circuits function for producing measurable behaviors and the principles of pharmacology. Focus on basic concepts in behavior analysis, pharmacology, and neuropharmacology, and reviews research techniques for assessing the effects of drugs on the behavior of nonhumans and humans.
Instructor: Erisir

PSYC 5326 The Neuroscience of Social Relationships
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2005
Enrollment Restrictions: Student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science or Neuroscience major or Grad Arts and Sciences
Description of course contents: This course will provide a broad overview of neuroscientific research into social relationships. The field is relatively new, and changing quickly. After a brief review of the neuroscientific methods we are likely to encounter in this literature, the course will be oriented toward readings and discussion, with brief research proposals presented at the end. PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050 recommended.
Instructor: Coan

BIOL 3050: Introduction to Neurobiology

* Note: BIOL 3050 OR PSYC 4200 credits may count for the major, but not both.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Must have completed BIOL 2100 (formerly BIOL 2010) or BME 2104 and BIOL 2200 (formerly BIOL 2020) or BIOL 2040

Description of course contents: Analyzes the concepts of general neurobiology, including basic electrophysiology and electrochemistry, origin of bioelectric potentials, sensory, motor, integrative and developmental neurobiology, and conceptual models of simple learning. Prerequisite: Must have completed BIOL 2010 or BIOL 2100 or BME 2104 and BIOL 2020 or BIOL 2040. May not take if previously completed BIOL 3170. Analyzes the concepts of general neurobiology, including basic electrophysiology and electrochemistry, origin of bioelectric potentials, sensory, motor, integrative and developmental neurobiology, and conceptual models of simple learning.

Instructors: Condron

BIOL 4045: Neurodegenerative Diseases

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 & BIOL 3050 and can’t enroll if previously taken BIOL 4559 topic #29 Neurodegenerative Diseases

Description of course contents: This course for advanced undergrads will focus mainly on research about Alzheimer's disease, and will meet once/week for 3 hours. The first 3 weeks will be primarily didactic, and the remainder of the course will be a "journal club" in which primary research paper discussions will be led by teams of students. Assessments will be based on how well students lead and participate in discussions, and on exams.

Instructor: Bloom

BIOL 4190: Biological Clocks

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 or BIOL 3010 or BIOL 3020

Description of course contents: Provides direct experience in approaches used to study animal behavior. Each lab concentrates on a particular aspect of behavior. Student experiments relate to central nervous systems; sensory perception; sign stimuli, feeding behavior; social behavior; reproductive behavior; biological timing; and animal observation in the laboratory and field.

Instructor: Provencio

BIOL 4270: Animal Behavior Laboratory

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: BIOL 3250

Instructor: Kawasaki

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Linguistics

ANTH 2400: Language and Culture

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: A survey of topics having to do with the relationship between language, culture, and society. We will consider both how language is described and analyzed by linguists and how evidence from language can shed light on a variety of social, cultural, and cognitive phenomena. Topics include: nature of language, origins of language, how languages change, writing systems, use of linguistic evidence to make inferences about prehistory, the effects of linguistic categories on thought and behavior, regional and social variation in language, and cultural rules for communication. Satisfies the College Non-Western perspectives requirement.

Instructor: Dobrin

ANTH 2410: Sociolinguistics

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: This course introduces students to the diversity of human language and the principles of linguistic classification. How many languages are spoken in the world, and how are they related? What features do all languages share, and in what ways may they differ? In surveying the world's languages, we will focus on the structure and social situation of a set of representative languages for each geographic region covered. We will also discuss the global trend of shift from the use of minority languages to large languages of wider communication, and what this means for the future of human diversity. Course work includes problem sets, essays, and a final paper on the linguistic features and social situation of a minor language. Prerequisites: one year of a foreign language or permission of instructor. perspectives requirement.

Instructor: Lefkowitz

ANTH 2430: Languages of the World

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Mirzayan

ANTH 2541: Topics in Linguistics: French Creole Language Structures

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: This course examines the similarities and differences in phonology, morphology, and syntax among those creole languages whose primary lexicon is derived from French. We also consider broader linguistic and anthropological issues concerning creoles. For example, while some have claimed that creoles exist as a typologically distinct class of languages, others have argued that their only commonality is their socio-histories. Familiarity with French, though not required, will be useful. This course fulfills the Structure requirement for Linguistics majors and counts as a Linguistics requirement for Cognitive Science majors. of instructor.

Instructor: Wendte

ANTH 5425: Language Contact

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: Considers how languages change as part of social systems and affected by historical processes. We will contrast language change through internal processes of drift and regular sound change with contact-induced language change involving multilingualism and code switching, language shift and lexical borrowing, the emergence of pidgin, creole, and intertwined languages, language endangerment, and computational tools for historical linguistics.

Instructor: Wendte

ASL 3450-001: Comparative Linguistics: ASL and English

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: Describes spoken English and ASL (American Sign Language) on five levels: phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, and discourse and compares/contrasts them using real-world examples. Describes major linguistic components and processes of English and ASL. Introduces basic theories regarding ASL structure. Emphasizes ASL's status as a natural language by comparing/contrasting similarities and unique differences between the two languages.

Instructor: Jennings-Arey

EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Loncke

EDHS 4310: Exploring Linguistic Diversity

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: Students in this course will explore language variation within and between languages. The course will use the students’ personal experience and perceptions as a starting point to interpret and understand theories. The course will introduce central concepts such as language contact, language dominance, language policies, creolization, bilingualism, language diversification, language dispersal, dialect, idiolect, and sociolect. Most importantly the course will lead the students to identify and observe these dynamic linguistic forces in their own environment, in their communities, and in the wider world. The course will include a focus on policies that can influence linguistic variation.

Instructor: Loncke

FREN 3030: Phonetics

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: FREN 3030 is an introductory course in French phonetics. It provides basic concepts in articulatory phonetics and phonological theory, and offers students techniques for improving their own pronunciation. The course will cover the physical characteristics of individual French sounds; the relationship between these sounds and their written representation (orthography); the rules governing the pronunciation of "standard French"; the most salient phonological features of selected French varieties; phonetic differences between French and English sounds; and to some extent, ‘la musique du français’, i.e., prosodic phenomena (le rythme, l’accent, l’intonation, la syllabation). Practical exercises in 'ear-training' (the perception of sounds) and 'phonetic transcription' (using IPA) are also essential components of this dynamic course. Prerequisite: FREN 2020 (or equivalent). Course taught in French.

Instructor: Saunders

LING 3400: Structure of English

(obligatory 1 credit discussion)

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: This course provides students with a foundation in the grammar of the English language. Topics include the phonology, morphology, syntax, with a focus on structural analysis. Students will gain confidence in discussing the form, function, and usage of linguistic structures. Students will also have an opportunity to research topics related to structure for presentation. Undergraduates will participate in group research projects, and graduate students will be expected to develop a conference-quality presentation. Where possible, topics will also be related to the teaching and tutoring of English as a second language including interlanguage analysis and feedback. This course fulfills the structure requirement for Linguistics majors and graduate students.

Instructor: Crabtree

LNGS 2240: Southern American English Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: An examination of the structure, history, and sociolinguistics of the English spoken in the southeastern United States.

Instructor: Elson

LNGS 3250: Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Analysis

(optional 1 credit discussion section)

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: This course introduces students to language as a system and the theoretical underpinnings of the analytic procedures used by linguists. It proceeds from the assumption that the goal of language is to communicate (i.e., to convey meaning via messages), and investigates assumptions relating to the manner in which it accomplishes this goal. This course is required for all Linguistics majors and graduate students.

Instructor: Elson

SPAN 3000 Phonetics

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Instructor Consent SPAN 3010 or Equivalent

Description of course contents:

An introduction to the sound system of both Peninsular & Latin Am Spanish. Class discussions focus on how the sounds of Spanish are produced from an articulatory point of view, and how these sounds are organized & represented in the linguistic competence of their speakers. When appropriate, comparisons will be made between Spanish & English or Spanish & other (Romance & non-Romance) languages. Course seeks to improve the student's pronunciation.

Instructor: Velazquez Mendoza

SPAN 4203: Structure of Spanish

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 3010 and either SPAN 3000 or SPAN 3200 Instructor Consent Required

Description of course contents: This is an advanced introduction to the study of fundamental aspects of the sound and grammatical systems of the Spanish language. The course will start by analyzing present-day (syllable, word and phrase) structures of the language and it will progress toward a more detailed examination of some of the linguistic processes and changes involved in the development of those structures. Prior coursework in linguistics is expected. Pre-requisites: SPAN 3015 Phonetics and SPAN 3200 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics

Instructor: Rini

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Philosophy

PHIL 1510- Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: It often seems that you are free to choose between options: where to go to university, what career to pursue, whether you will get married and to whom. But it is also sometimes said that you are a biological machine – that the laws of nature force you down the one and only path that your life could have ever taken, and that therefore your "options" are all illusory. Are you really free to choose between your apparent options? Can anyone really be praised or blamed for the choices they make? Does neuroscience disprove free will? What is free will, anyway? In this intro-level course, we will read contemporary philosophy and think about issues like these

Instructor: Puetz

PHIL 2420 Symbolic Logic
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: Developments in computing technology have had a tremendous impact on our lives. Changes have been swift and the human capacity to deal with them is limited. In this course we will examine some of these changes and carefully consider their social and ethical implications, from the political and global to the personal and emotional. We’ll end by thinking about computing changes that lie ahead – including the distant future.

Instructor: Staff

PHIL 2500-100 Philosophy of Race
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents:

Instructor: Harris

PHIL 2652 Animal Minds and Animal Ethics

Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: Other species seem to represent objects in their environments, think about the thoughts of their conspecifics, and perhaps even use language. Some seem to have long-term memory, emotion, and self-awareness. Do they in fact do all of these things, and if so, how, and in what sense? We will engage philosophically with the best scientific evidence available to answer these and similar questions before considering their ethical implications.
Instructor: Ott

PHIL 2820: Philosophy of Health and Healthcare

Prerequisites: None Attributes: Fulfills Second Writing Requirement
Description of course contents: In this class, we'll discuss philosophical theories of health and explore difficult issues in the measurement and treatment of health-related issues
Instructor: Barnes

PHIL 3010: Darwin and Philosophy

Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: This course investigates the history and the scientific and philosophical implications of Darwin's revolutionary idea that the wholly unguided process of natural selection could explain the magnificent variety and adaptedness of living things and their descent from a common ancestor. One of the philosophical topics we will explore is how scientific theories are supported by evidence and how science yields knowledge
Instructor: Eaker

PHIL 3330: Philosophy of the Mind
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: What is the nature of the mind and why do we find its nature so puzzling? We shall critically examine various theories about the nature of the mind; we shall also discuss the nature of particular kinds of mental states and events, such as beliefs, desires, feelings, sensory experiences, and others. We shall be especially concerned with the relations between the mind and the body, and, more generally, between the mental and the physical. Most of the readings will be by contemporary philosophers. (This course satisfies the major concentration requirement in Metaphysics and Epistemology.)
Instructor: Langsam

PHIL 3500-001 Philosophy of Memory
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents:

Instructor: Irving

PHIL 3500-002 Philosophy of Economics
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents:

Instructor: Cameron

PHIL 3500-003 Philosophy of Mental Health
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents:

Instructor: Barnes

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Computer Science

Most Computer Science courses are acceptable for the COGS major except CS 1010, CS 1020, and CS 1501 Special Topics courses. CS 1501 (and some 2501) courses are CR/NC grading which within the College of Arts and Sciences means they cannot be used to fulfill major credit hours. This is not an exhaustive list and doesn’t go beyond the 3000 level though 4000 level – 3 credit hour classes also count for COGS.

The most common courses taken include:

CS 1110: Introduction to Programming
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: A first course in programming, software development, and computer science. Introduces computing fundamentals and an appreciation for computational thinking. No previous programming experience required. Note: CS 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, and 1120 provide different approaches to teaching the same core material; students may only receive credit for one of these courses. of language.

Instructor: Various

CS 1111: Introduction to Programming
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: A first course in programming, software development, and computer science. Introduces computing fundamentals and an appreciation for computational thinking. Prerequisite: Students should have some experience with programming. Note: CS 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, and 1120 provide different approaches to teaching the same core material; students may only receive credit for one of these courses.

Instructor: TBA

CS 1112: Introduction to Programming

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: A first course in programming, software development, and computer science. Introduces computing fundamentals and an appreciation for computational thinking. Prerequisite: Students must have no previous programming experience. Note: CS 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, and 1120 provide different approaches to teaching the same core material; students may only receive credit for one of these courses.

Instructor: Various

CS 1113: Introduction to Programming (Cross listed as PHYS 1655)

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: This class is offered by the Physics department and is cross listed with PHYS1655. This is a new class! Along with an introduction to the PYTHON programming language, the course will introduce three core skills: analyzing data, simulating data, and visualizing data. It assumes no prior programming experience or knowledge about the inner workings of computers. It will concentrate on applications to common problems in science and engineering.

A first course in programming, software development, and computer science. Introduces computing fundamentals and an appreciation for computational thinking. Prerequisite: Students must have no previous programming experience. Note: CS 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, and 1120 provide different approaches to teaching the same core material; students may only receive credit for one of these courses.

Instructor: Group

CS 2100 Data Structures and Algorithms 1

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 1110 or CS 1111 or CS 1112 or CS 1113 with a grade of C- or better OR successfully completed the CS 1110 place out test.
Description of course contents: A second course in computing with an emphasis on foundational data structures and program analysis. The course provides a introduction to object oriented programming and the Java programming language, concurrency, and inheritance / polymorphism. Additionally, foundational data structures and related algorithms / analysis are studied. These include lists, stacks, queues, trees, hash tables, and priority queues. Prereq: CS 1100 - CS 1199

Instructor 001 & 002 Morrison 003:TBA

CS 2120: Discrete Mathematics and Theory 1

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 1110 or CS 1111 or CS 1112 or CS 1113 with a grade of C- or better OR successfully completed the CS 1110 place out test.
Description of course contents: Introduces discrete mathematics and proof techniques involving first order predicate logic and induction. Application areas include sets, tuples, functions, relations, and combinatorial problems. Prereq: CS 1100 - CS 1199

Instructor: 001 & 003: Orrico 002: Sullivan

CS 2130: Computer Systems and Organization 1

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 1110 or CS 1111 or CS 1112 or CS 1113 with a grade of C- or better OR successfully completed the CS 1110 place out test.
Description of course contents: This course covers topics on the computer architecture abstraction hierarchy ranging from a step above silicon to a step below modern programming languages. Students in this course will learn to write low-level code in C and Assembly, how data is stored in memory, the basics of hardware design from gates and registers through general-purpose computers, and legal, ethical, and security issues related to these topics. CS 1100 - CS 1199 and either familiarity with Java, C++, or another C-like language, or concurrent enrollment in CS 2100

Instructor: 001 & 002: Graham

CS 3100 Data Structures and Algorithms 2

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 2100 and CS 2120

Description of course contents: Builds upon previous analysis of algorithms and the effects of data structures on them. Algorithms selected from areas such as searching, shortest paths, greedy algorithms, backtracking, divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, and machine learning. Analysis techniques include asymptotic worst case, expected time, amortized analysis, and reductions.CS 2100 and CS 2120; APMA 1090 or MATH 1210 or MATH 1310 or equivalent

Instructor: 001: Hott 002: Horton

CS 3120: Discrete Mathematics and Theory 2

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 3100 or CS 4102
Description of course contents: The goal of this course is to understand the fundamental limits on what can be efficiently computed. These limits reveal properties about information, communication, and computing, as well as practical issues about how to solve problems. Introduces computation theory including grammars, automata, and Turing machines. Prereq: CS 4102 or CS 3100

Instructor: Floryan

CS 3130: Computer Systems and Organization 2

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 2100 and CS 2130

Description of course contents: A second course in computer systems, this course will explore a more realistic model of processors and how they and the operating system work together to provide various functionality we depend on as application programmers. Course topics include permission models, system architecture, concurrency, virtual memory, cryptographic primitives, and TCP/IP networking. Prereq CS 2100 and CS 2130

Instructor: Reiss

CS 3140: Software Development Essentials

NOTE: This class may only be taken by students in new course curriculum (that is, students who took CS 2100 - DSA 1). If you took CS 2110 and CS 2150, you are not able to take this course.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 2100 and CS 2120

Description of course contents: A first course in software engineering and software construction, this course focuses on bringing the programming concepts learned in a first course in data structures and algorithms together to begin to teach students how to build more complex systems. The course covers introductory topics in testing, software design principles, design patterns, functional programming, and data storage and manipulation.

Instructor: 001-002-McBurney

CS 3205: HCI in Software Development

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 2100 and CS 2110

Description of course contents: Human-computer interaction and user-centered design in the context of software engineering. Examines the fundamental principles of human-computer interaction. Includes evaluating a system's usability based on well-defined criteria; user and task analysis, as well as conceptual models and metaphors; the use of prototyping for evaluating design alternatives; and physical design of software user-interfaces, including windows, menus, and commands. Prerequisite: CS 2110 or CS 2100

Instructor: Apostolellis

CS 3240: HCI in Software Development

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 2150 or CS 3140 with a grade of C- or better

Description of course contents: Analyzes modern software engineering practice for multi-person projects; methods for requirements specification, design, implementation, verification, and maintenance of large software systems; advanced software development techniques and large project management approaches; project planning, scheduling, resource management, accounting, configuration control, and documentation. Prerequisite: CS 2150 or CS 3140 with a grade of C- or better

Instructor: Sherriff

CS 3250: Software Testing

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 2150 or CS 2100 and 2120 with a grade of C- or better

Description of course contents: An introduction to testing for assuring software quality. Covers concepts and techniques for testing software, including testing at the unit, module, subsystem, and system levels; automatic and manual techniques for generating and validating test data; the testing process; static vs. dynamic analysis; functional testing; inspections; testing in specific application domains; and reliability assessment. Prerequisite: CS 2150 or (CS 2100 and CS 2120) with a grade of C- or better

Instructor: Praphamontripong

CS 3710: Introduction to Cybersecurity

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 2150 or CS 2100 and CS2130 with a grade of C- or better

Description of course contents: Introduces students to the fields of cybersecurity. Both non-technical issues, such as ethics and policy, and technical issues are covered. Students see and experiment with a wide range of areas within cybersecurity, including: binary exploitation, encryption, digital forensics, networks, and modern threats. Prerequisites: CS 2150 or (CS 2100 or CS 2100 place out test and CS 2130) with a grade of C- or better

Instructor: 001 & 002 Orebaugh 003: Bloomfield

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Note: ECE 2066: Science of Information will count for major credit but does not fulfill the CS area requirement.

Instructor: Barnes

Summer 2023

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Psychology

PSYC 2005: Research Methods & Data Analysis I (Session 1 & 3) ONLINE
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: Introduces research methods in psychology, integrating statistical analysis.

Instructor: Frederick Smyth

PSYC 2150: Introduction to Cognition (Session 3) ONLINE
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: Cognition is the activity of knowing: the acquisition, organization, and use of knowledge. Emphasizing fundamental issues, this course introduces such basic content areas in cognitive psychology as perception, memory, language, cognitive development, and philosophy of science.

Instructor: Mariana Teles Santos Golino

PSYC 2300: Introduction to Perception (Session 3)
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: Study of selected topics in perception, particularly visual perception, and the role of stimulus variables, learning and motivation of perception.

Instructor: Elizabeth Blair Gross

PSYC 2500: Psychology of Misinformation
Credits: 3

Description of course contents:

Instructor: Hudson Golino

PSYC 3006: Research Methods & Data Analysis II (Session 1) ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS
Credits: 4 (Required lab not currently listed on summer site but is a requirement)
Prerequisites: STAT 1601 (C or higher) PSYC 2005 or 3005 with grade of C or higher. May not be taken concurrently with 2005
Description of course contents: A continuation of discussion of research methods in psychology, including computer-controlled experimentation, integrated with computer-based exploratory data analysis, and elementary statistical analysis. Three lecture hours, two laboratory hours.

Instructor: Joseph Meyer & Karen Schmidt

PSYC 3100- Learning and the Neuroscience of Behavior (Session 1)

*Note: PSYC 3100 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3

Description of course contents: The course will examine historical and current theories of learning that provide the foundation for most, if not all forms of an organism's behavior. Students will be exposed to a diverse range of experimental findings that led to principles and concepts that currently explain how

environmental, social and emotional factors influence the brain and body to shape human and animal behavior.

Instructor: Cedric L. Williams

PSYC 4100 Neuroscience of Learning, Emotions and Motivation of Functional Behavior
*Note: PSYC 4100 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Students must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science/Neuroscience major.
Description of course contents: Learning, Emotions and Motivation will be explored from animal models of clinical conditions, historical case studies in humans of brain-derived emotional disturbances, and current innovations to treat brain disorders. These important discoveries will be presented for students to understand underlying biological and neural mechanisms that mediate adaptive changes to motivate healthy behavior.
Instructor: Williams

PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics
*Note: PSYC 4110 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Linguistics area requirement, but not both. Either PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Loncke) or EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication (Loncke) may be taken for credit, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Students must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science major.
Description of course contents: Topics include psychological and linguistic theory; experimental and empirical studies of linguistic usage; development of language in infants and children; cross-cultural studies of linguistic usage; and the biology of language.
Instructor: Loncke

PSYC 4280: Neural Basis of Empathy

*Note: PSYC 4280 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th years: Psychology Majors/Minors and Cognitive Science Majors; GSAS.

Description of course contents: This course is designed to provide in-depth experience with the concepts, methods, and techniques used in empathy research. Students will delve into scientific articles on the biological basis of emotional empathy, perspective taking, prosocial behavior, and compassion and learn how these skills can be modulated.

Instructor: Clabough

PSYC 4500: Myths & Controversies in Psychology

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Students must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science major.
Description of course contents: This course is an in-depth look at some of the common myths and controversies that exist in psychology today. The topics covered include memory, learning, technologies and ‘mind reading’, and psychopathology. Specifically, we will discuss issues that range from repressed memories to Baby Einstein materials and from the belief that ‘fMRI can read your mind’ to the use of inkblots in psychological assessment. Each topic will give the class a basis to discuss study design, methodology, statistics, and underlying psychological principles in psychology. The goal of this course is to explore a variety of provocative, interesting, and fun topics, and in doing so, learn skills necessary to be good research psychologists.

Credits: 3
Instructor: Elizabeth Gross

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Neuroscience

PSYC 2200 : Neural Basis of Behavior (Session 2 & 3) ONLINE
Credits: 3

Instructor: Erin Clabough

PSYC 3100- Learning and the Neuroscience of Behavior (Session 1)

*Note: PSYC 3100 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3

Instructor: Cedric L. Williams

PSYC 4100 Neuroscience of Learning, Emotions and Motivation of Functional Behavior
*Note: PSYC 4100 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Students must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science/Neuroscience major.
Description of course contents: Learning, Emotions and Motivation will be explored from animal models of clinical conditions, historical case studies in humans of brain-derived emotional disturbances, and current innovations to treat brain disorders. These important discoveries will be presented for students to understand underlying biological and neural mechanisms that mediate adaptive changes to motivate healthy behavior.
Instructor: Williams

PSYC 4200: Neural Mechanisms of Behavior

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL 3050 or PSYC 2200/3200 or PSYC 3260
Students must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, or Neuroscience major.
Description of course contents: Introduces basic concepts in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry needed for an understanding of brain and behavior. PSYC 3210 is recommended.

Credits: 3
Instructor: Adema Ribic

PSYC 4280: Neural Basis of Empathy

*Note: PSYC 4280 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th years: Psychology Majors/Minors and Cognitive Science Majors; GSAS.

In recent years, there’s been an explosion of discourse, both academic and public, over fake news and the alleged threats it poses. Where some warn that fake news is a pressing danger to liberal democracies, others advocate for abandoning the concept altogether. This course is designed to introduce students to the various philosophical problems raised by the phenomenon of fake news. Specific questions to be explored include (but are not limited to): What is fake news? How might fake news undermine liberal democracy, if at all? Does responsibility for addressing fake news lie with individuals, corporations, or governments? In investigating these issues, students will become familiar with core themes in social-political philosophy, epistemology, and the philosophy of language; and, in so doing, will learn to apply these philosophical tools in theorizing about a subject of increasing public importance.

This course is designed to provide in-depth experience with the concepts, methods, and techniques used in empathy research. Students will delve into scientific articles on the biological basis of emotional empathy, perspective taking, prosocial behavior, and compassion and learn how these skills can be modulated.

Instructor: Clabough

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Linguistics

ANTH 2400: Language and Culture

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Gilliam

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Philosophy

PHIL 1510- Buddhism and the Self
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: This course examines a few questions of particular interest to Buddhist philosophers about selfhood and attention. Is the “self” illusory? How do certain patterns of attention relate to living a good life? How might the “self” impede our ability to attend well? What is the purpose of meditation and mindfulness? On each of these topics, we will evaluate readings by both ancient and contemporary philosophers. Given the increasing commodification of our attention, many of these longstanding questions are especially timely.

Instructor: Veroneau

PHIL 1510- Environmental Ethics
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: Imagine an alien species looking down on Earth and making observations about how we, the human species during the Age of Man (the Anthropocene), on the whole, relate to our environment. How are we doing? From a distance, the most straightforward answer is “terribly.” We are in environmental crisis. What story explains how we got here? What are alternative ways we can relate to our environment, that is, to our fellow terrestrial citizens, the animals, to the plants, to the air, to the soil? Perhaps it at first seems to the aliens that the bounds of our moral concerns are drawn neatly around us homo sapiens. On closer inspection, this turns out to be false. How has economic and cultural domination by the most powerful disproportionately stuck the burdens of environmental degradation with the disadvantaged, the disinherited? Who should we look to to get our house in order? Can we take one small step forward in remedying these problems by building closer personal and spiritual relationships with the environment? How do we do this?

Instructor: Cetic

PHIL 1510- Fake News & Philosophy
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: In recent years, there’s been an explosion of discourse, both academic and public, over fake news and the alleged threats it poses. Where some warn that fake news is a pressing danger to liberal democracies, others advocate for abandoning the concept altogether. This course is designed to introduce students to the various philosophical problems raised by the phenomenon of fake news. Specific questions to be explored include (but are not limited to): What is fake news? How might fake news undermine liberal democracy, if at all? Does responsibility for addressing fake news lie with individuals, corporations, or governments? In investigating these issues, students will become familiar with core themes in social-political philosophy, epistemology, and the philosophy of language; and, in so doing, will learn to apply these philosophical tools in theorizing about a subject of increasing public importance.

Instructor: Charles Oswald

PHIL 1510- Ethics in the Digital Age
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: In this course, we'll critically evaluate some ethical issues concerning technology by focusing on debates over social media, biomedical technology, and artificial intelligence. For example, is social media responsible for the rapid spread of fake news? When is it okay to use genetic engineering technology like CRISPR, if ever?

And what sorts of limits should we place on the development of artificial intelligence so that things don't go haywire? We'll first cover basic ethical theory and then address these (and other) issues case by case.

Instructor: Welchance

PHIL 1510- What is Art
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: This course will be a study of three questions: (1) What is art? (2) What is a piece of art? (3) What is a good piece of art? Starting with the most general, we will consider the diverse contemporary accounts of the nature and function of art. These theories will guide us in exploring what even counts as a piece of art: How can blank canvas be art? What about "A.I. art?" Finally, we will turn to the aesthetics and politics of art. Not only looking at how our judgement and social context affects our perception of art, but how art can affect our perception of everything else. In exploring these issues we will gain the philosophical, methodological, and writing tools needed to engage in these subjects as well as philosophy more generally.

Instructor: Jones

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Computer Science

CS 1110 Introduction to Programming (Session I)

Credits: 3

Instructor: Paul McBurney

CS 2120 Discrete Math and Theory 1 (Session 2)

Prerequisite: CS 111X

Credits: 3

Instructor: Elizabeth Orrico

CS 3710 Intro to Cybersecurity (Session I)

Prerequisite: CS

Credits: 3

Instructor: Aaron Bloomfield

Spring 2023

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Psychology

PSYC 2005-1 & 2: Research Methods & Data Analysis I
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Enrollment restrictions: None
Description of course contents: Introduces research methods in psychology, integrating statistical analysis.
Instructor: Clark & Perrin (different sections)

PSYC 2150: Introduction to Cognition

PSYC 3006: Research Methods & Data Analysis II
Credits: 4 (Required lab)
Prerequisites: STAT 1601 (C or higher) PSYC 2005 or 3005 with grade of C or higher. May not be taken concurrently with 2005
Description of course contents: A continuation of discussion of research methods in psychology, including computer-controlled experimentation, integrated with computer-based exploratory data analysis, and elementary statistical analysis. Three lecture hours, two laboratory hours. Instructor: Meyer

PSYC 3100: Neuroscience of Behavior

*Note: PSYC 3100 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: None
Description of course contents: The course will examine historical and current theories of learning that provide the foundation for most, if not all forms of an organism's behavior. Students will be exposed to a diverse range of experimental findings that led to principles and concepts that currently explain how environmental, social and emotional factors influence the brain and body to shape human and animal behavior.

PSYC 3310: R Applications in Psychology

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: None
Description of course contents: Online course This course serves as both an introduction to the R programming language for those who haven't had any previous R background, as well as a refresher and an extension of R topics for those who have taken an intro to R course (i.e., STAT 1601 or PSYC 3006) previously or concurrently. This course is specially tailored to those who have an interest in psychology, with the purpose of preparing students to use R for their psychological research.
Instructor: Meyer

PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics
*Note: PSYC 4110 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Linguistics area requirement, but not both. Either PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Loncke) or EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication (Loncke) may be taken for credit, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Third or fourth year Psychology or Cognitive Science major/second major

Description of course contents: Topics include psychological and linguistic theory; experimental and empirical studies of linguistic usage; development of language in infants and children; cross-cultural studies of linguistic usage; and the biology of language.

Instructor: Loncke

PSYC 4500- Section 002 Psychology of Misinformation

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Third or fourth year Psychology or Cognitive Science major/second major

Description of course contents:

Instructor: Golino

PSYC 4500- Section 005 Cognitive Impairment in Aging

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Third or fourth year Psychology or Cognitive Science major/second major

Description of course contents: his course intends to approach a set of common cognitive diseases (such as Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal disorders, Lewy body, and vascular dementia) from its diagnosis and treatment. Boundaries between typical and atypical trajectories in aging will be discussed. The students will learn how to desing cognitive interventions for healthy and clinical groups.

Instructor: Teles Santos Golino

PSYC 4500-Section 006: High-Level Cognition

Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Enrollment Restrictions: Third or fourth year Psychology or Cognitive Science major/second major

Description of course contents: This course will cover contemporary data and theory in high level cognitive processes, including reasoning, choice, problem solving, creativity, and collaborative thinking.

Instructor: Willingham

PSYC 4606: Cognitive Biases in Anxiety Disorder

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2410 Abnormal Psychology

Enrollment Restrictions: Third or fourth year Psychology or Cognitive Science major/second major

Description of course contents: This course examines cognitive processing biases in anxiety and related disorders. To understand, for example, why a person with social anxiety sees only the one scowling face in a room full of smiles, we consider automatic processing of emotional information. The course critiques cutting-edge research on how these processes contribute to anxiety and related problems, and if it is important to change the processes to reduce psychopathology.

Instructor: Teachman

PSYC 5270: Computational Neuroscience
*Note: PSYC 5270 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, or Computer Science area requirement, but only one area requirement.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year major/2nd major Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience; or graduate A&S student.
Description of course contents: Develops skills in processing neural data and analyzing its relationship to stimulus or motor activity. Topics include information theory, receptive fields, point processes, and mixed-effects models. Emphasis is on implementing theoretical concepts with computer programs.

Instructor: Meliza

PSYC 5323 R in Psychology
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year major/2nd major Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience; or graduate A&S student.

Description of course contents: This course is designed to introduce the statistical language R, with the purpose of preparing students to use and apply quantitative methods in their future psychology research. Topics may include handling data structures, cleaning data, visualizing and presenting data, and reviewing introductory statistics using R.

Instructor: Meyer

PSYC 5500: Advanced Multiple Regression and Data Visualization
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Any introductory statistics course and any methods course using R statistical software.
Enrollment Restrictions: Instructor Permission only.

Description of course contents: Tentative topics include basic R programming, linear models, and focus on analyzing real COVID-19 data initially. Next, more regression topics will be introduced and analyzed using a dataset for better understanding of data related to COVID-19 from open-source data obtained from ICPSR. Students will learn how to create their own RStudio Shiny App to depict variations in statistical models using visualization techniques. Step by step guidance will be given.
Each week, students will work in groups, collaboratively conduct a real data analysis and create a report to summarize their work and empirical findings.

Instructor: Schmidt

PSYC 5710: Machine Learning and Data Mining
*Note: PSYC 5710 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Computer Science area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year major/2nd major Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience; or graduate A&S student.
Description of course contents: While most psychological studies ask "is something different between groups?", in this course we will introduce quantitative methods to answer the question "what is different between groups?", ie., we ask which part (or combination) of our data maximizes the chances to distinguish between given groups.
Instructor: Golino

PSYC 5720: Fundamentals of Item Response Theory
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Undergraduates PSYC 2005 or 3005 and 3006 or 4005 and 4006.
Enrollment Restrictions: Instructor Permission only.

Description of course contents: This course is designed to introduce you to the concepts of item response theory (IRT) models and their application to substantive psychological problems in measurement, such as test and scale design and analysis.

Instructor: Schmidt

BME 3636 Neural Network Models of Cognition and Brain Computation
*Note: BME 3636 may be used to fulfill either the area or upper level requirement for Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, or Neuroscience area requirement, but not more than one.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Cross-listed as NESC 5330. CS 1110; and BIOM 2101; or permission of the instructor.
Description of course contents: This is an introductory course to neural networks research, specifically biologically-based networks that reproduce cognitive phenomena. The goal of this course is to teach the basic thinking and methodologies used in constructing and understanding neural-like networks.
Instructor: Levy

EDLF 5270 Adult Development and Aging

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment restrictions: None

This course will focus on key issues in adult psychological and physical development. We will explore development from a biopsychosocial perspective, examining topics such as health, cognitive function, personality, interpersonal relationships, and work. This will be a theory-to-practice class, with an emphasis on current theories of optimal or successful aging. In particular, we will focus on how adults respond and adapt to changes in their health, their environment, and their sense of self. Contexts for development will include education, health care, the family, and the community, with attention to individual differences (gender, race, ethnicity).

Instructor: Whaley

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Neuroscience

PSYC 3100: Neuroscience of Behavior

*Note: PSYC 3100 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

PSYC 3200-001: Fundamentals of Neuroscience

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or BIOL 2100

BIOL 3050

Enrollment Restrictions: This course will build on students' general knowledge of Neuroscience topics and aim to achieve a deeper understanding of the fundamental principles of Neuroscience. Topics covered: (1) cell biological and electrical properties of the neuron; (2) synaptic transmission and synaptic plasticity; (3) transduction of physical stimuli and processing of sensory information; and (4) development and evolution and the nervous system

Instructor: Cang

PSYC 3210-001/002: RM: Psychobiology Laboratory

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or PSYC 3200 or BIOL 3050

Description of course contents: Develops skills necessary for the study of neural bases of behavior, such as brain dissection, aseptic surgical technique, lesions, behavioral analysis, and histology. Emphasis is on mastering contemporary techniques used in neuroscience research and effective, professional written presentation of research findings. Four laboratory hours.

Instructor: Cang

PSYC 3235-001: Introduction to Epigenetics

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or PSYC 3200 or BIOL 3050

Enrollment Restrictions:

Instructor: Connelly

PSYC 5270: Computational Neuroscience
*Note: PSYC 5270 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Instructor: Meliza

BIOL 3250: Introduction to Animal Behavior
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL 2100 (2010) or BME 2104 and BIOL 2200
Description of course contents: An introduction to comparative studies of animal behavior from neuroethological and evolutionary perspectives. The first deals with proximate causes of behavior, with emphases on motor, sensory and central aspects of the nervous system. The second deals with ultimate causes, with emphases on natural selection, natural history, and adaptive aspects of behavior.
Instructor: Kawasaki

BIOL 4310: Sensory Neurobiology
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050 (3170)
Description of course contents: This two-lectures-per-week course explores the basic principles of sensory neurobiology. The course consists of four modules. Each module represents one of the senses and consists of an introductory lecture, one or several lectures that will delve into the details of that sense, a current topic lecture on some recent finding, and finally, a guest lecture from a UVa researcher.
Instructor: Provencio

BIOL 4320: Signal Transduction

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: : BIOL 3000 & BIOL 3010

Description of course contents:. This advanced undergraduate course explores how cells communicate with each other and respond to their environment. This area of biology is referred to as signal transduction and is the basis for most if not all normal and disease processes in humans. Therefore, significant time is spent on defining archetypal signaling modules that all cells use to receive and communicate information to and from their environment.

Instructor: Miller

BIOL 4330: Wiring the Brain

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 and BIOL 3010; BIOL 3170 or PSYC 2200.

Description of course contents: This course will cover the current state of knowledge for how neurons form connections in the brain. The course will initially focus on how relatively simple model systems have provided the critical clues as to how specific synaptic connections form. This will be followed by a discussion of how this knowledge can be applied to the understanding and treatment of human neural disorders. About a quarter of the course will be standard lectures and the remainder student-led discussion of primary literature.

Instructor: Condron

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Linguistics

ANTH 2400 Language and Culture

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Wendte

ANTH 2415: Language in Human Evolution

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents:. Examines the evolution of our capacity for language along with the development of human ways of cooperating in engaged social interaction. Course integrates cognitive, cultural, social, and biological aspects of language in comparative perspective. How is the familiar shape of language today the result of evolutionary and developmental processes involving the form, function, meaning and use of signs and symbols in social ecologies?

Instructor: Sicoli

ANTH 2430: Languages of the World

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Mirzayan

ANTH 3490: Language and Thought

Credits: 3
Description of course contents: There is almost always more than one way to think about any problem. But could speaking a particular language make some strategies and solutions seem more natural than others to individuals? Can we learn about alternative ways of approaching the external world by studying other languages? The classic proposal of linguistic relativity as enunciated by Benjamin Lee Whorf is examined in the light of recent cross-cultural psycholinguistic research.

Instructor: Danziger

ANTH 3541-001 Topics in Linguistics: Language Change

Credits: 3
Description of course contents: Along the span of history and across the globe, the one constant of human language is change. This course introduces the study and analysis of language change over time in a variety of domains and contexts. Students will learn how to identify and decode processes and results of historical language change and apply these skills to analyze data bearing on relationships and contacts between different languages and their speakers. This course fulfills the Historical requirement for Linguistics majors and counts as a Linguistics Upper Level requirement for Cognitive Science majors.

Instructor: Wendte

ANTH 3559-001 New Course in Linguistics: Creoles & Creolization

Credits: 3
Description of course contents: Linguistics as a field has historically had difficulty accounting for local vernaculars known as creoles. In this course, we consider several proposals for analyzing these languages and explaining their unique origins and characteristics. We broach important theoretical debates concerning creoles as a linguistic type, the creole continuum, and the concept of de-creolization. Finally, we attempt to answer the perennial question: What is a creole? The answer is at least as much anthropological as it is linguistic. Examples will be drawn primarily from Franco-Creolophone Louisiana. Familiarity with French, though not required, will be useful. This course counts as a Linguistics Upper Level requirement for Cognitive Science majors.

Instructor: Wendt

ANTH 5410: Phonology

Credits: 3
Description of course contents: An introduction to the theory and analysis of linguistic sound systems. Covers the essential units of speech sound that lexical and grammatical elements are composed of, how those units are organized at multiple levels of representation, and the principles governing the relation between levels.

Instructor: Mirzayan

ANTH 5480: Literacy and Orality

Credits: 3
Description of course contents: This course surveys ethnographic and linguistic literature on literacy, focusing on the social meanings of speaking vs. writing (and hearing vs. reading) as opposed communicative practices, looking especially at traditionally oral societies.

Instructor: Dobrin

EDHS 4030: Speech and Hearing Science

Credits: 3
Description of course contents: The course examines principal concepts and procedures for the study of physiologic, perceptual and acoustic aspects of voice, speech and hearing. The course leads the student into the fascinating world of new applications in daily life, in business, and especially in education and clinical work.

Instructor: Loncke

PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics
*Note: PSYC 4110 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Linguistics area requirement, but not both. Either PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Loncke) or EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication (Loncke) may be taken for credit, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course and 4th year Psychology or Cognitive Science major/minor

Instructor: Loncke

SPAN 3000: Phonetics

Description of course contents: Spanish Phonetics provides an introduction to the sound system of both Peninsular and Latin American Spanish. Class discussion focus on how the sounds of Spanish are produced from an articulatory point of view, and how these sounds are organized and represented in the linguistic competence of their speakers. When appropriate, comparisons will be made between Spanish and English or Spanish and other (Romance and non-Romance) languages. This course seeks to improve the student’s pronunciation. Prerequisites: SPAN 2020. Conducted in Spanish.

Instructor: Scida

SPAN 3200: Intro to Hispanic Linguistics

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Spanish 3010
Description of course contents: This course offers a formal description of the Spanish language from the following angles of the linguistic discipline: language variation, change and acquisition; phonetics/phonology, morphology, and syntax. Counts for major credit in Spanish and Linguistics. Conducted in Spanish.

Instructor: Rini

SPAN 4203: Structure of Spanish

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 3010 and either SPAN 3000 or SPAN 3200

Enrollment restrictions: Instructor Permission

Description of course contents: his is an advanced introduction to the study of fundamental aspects of the sound and grammatical systems of the Spanish language. The course will start by analyzing present-day (syllable, word and phrase) structures of the language and it will progress toward a more detailed examination of some of the linguistic processes and changes involved in the development of those structures. Prior coursework in linguistics is expected. Pre-requisites: SPAN 3010 and either SPAN 3000 Phonetics and SPAN 3200 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics

Instructor: Rini

SPAN 4530: Special Topic Seminar: Second Language Aquisition

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement; instructor permission.
Description of course contents:

Instructor: Scida

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Philosophy

PHIL 2500-100 Topic: Philosophy of Moral Responsibility

Credits: 3
Description of course contents: In this course we will take up philosophical questions about moral responsibility and blame: what is blame and how is it related to moral responsibility? What does it take to be blameworthy for something? We will also look at questions about blamerworthiness, or what it takes to be in a position to hold another person or institution accountable.

Instructor: Payton

PHIL 2500-002 Philosophy of Language

Credits: 3
Description of course contents: It is easy to take for granted what humans can accomplish with language. With language use we can describe and better come to know about the world. We can express ourselves, share core values, and be better able to understand each other. Through language use we also do things and change things, including languages themselves. We define, argue, and translate from completely different languages. Accomplishments abound! In this course, we will revel in some of these accomplishments, and through close study of theories in the philosophy of language that seek to understand, analyze, and explain some of these accomplishments. Large-scale questions will include: how are we able to refer? What are the relationships between words/phrases and what they are able to mean when they are used? What roles do language users play in those relationships? More broadly, what is linguistic meaning? We will approach these and other questions with both theoretical interest and an eye to the practices we share of using language in the world.

Instructor: Fox

PHIL 2640: Rational Choice and Happiness
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: In this class, we will examine philosophical puzzles about our ability to make rational choices that affect or determine our own happiness. How can we rationally decide to undergo a significant experience – such as having a child or moving to a new country – when we have no way of knowing what that experience will be like? How can we rationally choose to make decisions about our future?

Instructor: Barnes

PHIL 3320 Epistemology
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: The course focuses on questions in the theory of knowledge. Topics include: skepticism about knowledge of the external world, the nature of justification, foundationalism, and coherentism, the Gettier problem, internalism and externalism, a priori knowledge, the analytic/synthetic distinction, induction, and the ethics of belief.

Instructor: Langsam

PHIL 3500 New Seminar: Metaphilosophy
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: Philosophy characteristically probes existence, the reality of objects, the possibility of knowledge, and the nature of truth, among many other things. Metaphilosophy is the self-reflective inquiry into the nature, aims, and methods of the activity that make these philosophical inquiries possible. It is concerned with the nature of philosophy—the philosophy of philosophy.

Instructor: Harris

PHIL 3400: Introduction to Non-Classical Logic
Credits: 3
Description of course contents: An introduction to systems of non-classical logic, including both extensions and revisions to classical logic. We will look at logical systems that extend classical logic to deal with the phenomena of possibility and time. We will look at logics that revise classical logic to allow for sentences which are neither true nor false, or sentences which can be both. We will show how these departures from classical logic can shed light on various philosophical questions.

Instructor: Cameron

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Computer Science

The most common courses taken include:

CS 1110: Introduction to Programming
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: A first course in programming, software development, and computer science. Introduces computing fundamentals and an appreciation for computational thinking. No previous programming experience required. Note: CS 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, and 1120 provide different approaches to teaching the same core material; students may only receive credit for one of these courses. of language.

Instructor: Pettit

CS 1111: Introduction to Programming
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: A first course in programming, software development, and computer science. Introduces computing fundamentals and an appreciation for computational thinking. Prerequisite: Students should have some experience with programming. Note: CS 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, and 1120 provide different approaches to teaching the same core material; students may only receive credit for one of these courses. Instructor: Apostolellis

CS 2100 Data Structures and Algorithms 1

Instructor 001: Stone 002 & 003: Morrison

CS 2120: Discrete Mathematics and Theory 1

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 1110 or CS 1111 or CS 1112 or CS 1113 with a grade of C- or better OR successfully completed the CS 1110 place out test.
Description of course contents: Introduces discrete mathematics and proof techniques involving first order predicate logic and induction. Application areas include sets, tuples, functions, relations, and combinatorial problems. Prereq: CS 1100 - CS 1199

Instructor: Orrico

CS 2130: Computer Systems and Organization 1

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 1110 or CS 1111 or CS 1112 or CS 1113 with a grade of C- or better OR successfully completed the CS 1110 place out test.
Description of course contents: This course covers topics on the computer architecture abstraction hierarchy ranging from a step above silicon to a step below modern programming languages. Students in this course will learn to write low-level code in C and Assembly, how data is stored in memory, the basics of hardware design from gates and registers through general-purpose computers, and legal, ethical, and security issues related to these topics. CS 1100 - CS 1199 and either familiarity with Java, C++, or another C-like language, or concurrent enrollment in CS 2100

Instructor: Hott

CS 3100 Data Structures and Algorithms 2

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 2100 and CS 2120

Instructor: Brunelle

CS 3120: Discrete Mathematics and Theory 2

Instructor: Evans

CS 3130: Computer Systems and Organization 2

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 2100 and CS 2130

Instructor: Reiss

CS 3140: Software Development Essentials

NOTE: This class may only be taken by students in new course curriculum (that is, students who took CS 2100 - DSA 1). If you took CS 2110 and CS 2150, you are not able to take this course.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 2100 and CS 2120

Instructor: 001-002-Nguyen

CS 3205: HCI in Software Development

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 2100 and CS 2110

Instructor: Apostolellis

For a comprehensive list--PLEASE see CS 3000+ courses in SIS or Lous List

Note: ECE 2066: Science of Information will count for major credit but does not fulfill the CS area requirement.

PSYC 5270: Computational Neuroscience
*Note: PSYC 5270 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, or Computer Science area requirement, but only one area requirement.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Enrollment Restrictions: Arts & Sciences graduate student or enrollment is not allowed in more than one 4000- or 5000-level PSYC course (except PSYC 4910-4980
Description of course contents: Develops skills in processing neural data and analyzing its relationship to stimulus or motor activity. Topics include information theory, receptive fields, point processes, and mixed-effects models. Emphasis is on implementing theoretical concepts with computer programs.

Instructor: Meliza

PSYC 5710: Machine Learning and Data Mining
*Note: PSYC 5710 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Computer Science area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: 4th years: Psychology Majors/Minors and Cognitive Science Majors; Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course or GSAS
Description of course contents: While most psychological studies ask "is something different between groups?", in this course we will introduce quantitative methods to answer the question "what is different between groups?", ie., we ask which part (or combination) of our data maximizes the chances to distinguish between given groups.
Instructor: Golino

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Elective Credit Only

KINE 3660: Neuroscience of Exercise

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: This course will address the underlying neuroanatomy associated with cognitive function in healthy individuals as well as those with neurocognitive/psychiatric pathologies and diseases. Throughout the semester, students will become consumers of cross- disciplinary research addressing the influence of physical activity and cognitive function.

Instructor: Resch

JTerm 2023

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Psychology

PSYC 4260: Genetic and Epigenetic Research in Behavior

*Note: PSYC 4260 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3

Description: We will discuss basic concepts in genetics/epigenetics and the role these molecular modifications play in behavior and disorder. We will evaluate empirical papers and learn the molecular techniques described within them. We will interrogate the genome databases and learn about how to identify and isolate differences in human DNA sequence. Completion of this course should result in increased knowledge of the use of genome level data in psychology and biology.

Instructor: Connelly

PSYC 4500: The Neuro Experience

*Note: PSYC 4500-Neuro Experience may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3

Description: his course will explore the physiological and psychological components of neurological disorders, focusing on changes in cognition and delving into how a patient might experience a disease process. Class content is rooted in basic neuroscience and informed by the patient experience. We will consider neurological disorder processes through different neurolenses, including the experience of the cell, the brain, the body, the caregiver/family, the community, and society.

PSYC 4559: Research Methods in Developmental Human Neuroscience

*Note: PSYC 4559-Research Methods in Developmental Neuroscience may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3

Description: This course offers an introduction to and practical experience with developmental human neuroscience techniques. The course will be laboratory based and will give the students experience with collection and analysis of neuroscientific data. Our primary goal will be to understand how human neuroscience techniques may inform our understanding of the developing brain. We will focus on three techniques: electroencephalography (EEG), functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We will consider each technique in detail through brief course lectures, readings, and laboratory demonstrations with particular emphasis on implementing these techniques with developing populations. Students will leave the course with an understanding of methodological considerations for data collecting involving developmental populations, and hands-on experience.

Instructor: Puglia

PSYC 5326 The Neuroscience of Social Relationships

*Note: PSYC 5326 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3

Enrollment requirements: Completion of PSYC 2005/3005; Restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psyc, Cognitive Science, Neurosci major; or a Grad A&S student.

Description: This seminar course challenges students to understand the way natural selection has shaped the human brain and body to be fundamentally social. We will grapple with the implications of our social nature for health, well being, and policy, appreciate how different forces and time scales——from genetic evolution to the circumstances of any ordinary day——influence the function of simple acts like handholding, and we'll learn about neuroscientific mechanisms, levels of analysis, and research designs..

Instructor: Coan

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Neuroscience

PSYC 4260: Genetic and Epigenetic Research in Behavior

*Note: PSYC 4260 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3

Instructor: Connelly

PSYC 4500: The Neuro Experience

*Note: PSYC 4500-Neuro Experience may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4500: Research Methods in Developmental Human Neuroscience

*Note: PSYC 4500-Research Methods in Developmental Neuroscience may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3

Instructor: Puglia

PSYC 5326: The Neuroscience of Social Relationships

*Note: PSYC 5326 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3

Instructor: Coan

Fall 2022

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Psychology

EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

multimodality, (7) bilingualism and variation, (8) interaction between language and cognition (9) a psycholinguistic approach to breakdown (i.e., pathology).

Instructor: Loncke

PSYC 2005: Research Methods & Data Analysis I
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Enrollment restrictions: None
Description of course contents: Introduces research methods in psychology, integrating statistical analysis.
Instructor: TBD (Section 101) and TBD (Section 102)

PSYC 2150: Introduction to Cognition

PSYC 3006: Research Methods & Data Analysis II
Credits: 4 (Required lab)
Prerequisites: STAT 1601 (C or higher) and PSYC 2005 or 3005 with a grade of C or higher

Enrollment restrictions: Must have taken PSYC 2005 or 3005 and STAT 1601 or higher
Description of course contents: Introduction to research methods in psychology, integrating statistical analysis. Emphasis on descriptive statistics and non-experimental research methods. Use of computers for data analysis, experimentation, and report writing. This course is the first part of a two-part series (2005 and 3006).
Instructor: Schmidt (section 101 & 102)

PSYC 3160: Cognitive Neuroscience
*Note: PSYC 3160 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Instructor: Long

PSYC 3240: Animal Minds
*Note: PSYC 3240 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: None
Description of course contents: How animals perceive their environment, find food, select mates, form social groups, communicate, and learn complex tasks. Theory and methods from comparative psychology, behavioral ecology, neuroethology, and animal cognition.
Instructor: Meliza

PSYC 3310: R Applications in Psychology

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

PSYC 4155: Autism: From Neurons to Neighborhoods
*Note: PSYC 4155 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both. Credits: 3

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Students must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science or Neuroscience major.
Description of course contents: In this interdisciplinary seminar, we will discuss recent research on autism at multiple levels (biological, cognitive, social) and from multiple perspectives (autistic individuals, scientists, disability studies scholars, families, schools, community/government organizations).

Instructor: Jaswal

PSYC 4250: Brain Systems Involved in Memory

*Note: PSYC 4250 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both. Credits: 3

Prerequisite: PSYC 2200 or PSYC 3240 (PSYC 2210)

Enrollment Restrictions: Student must have taken PSYC 2200 or PSYC 2210 or 3240. Student must be a third or fourth year Psychology, Cognitive Science, or Neuroscience major.

Description of course contents: The seminar examines historical and current experimental findings to understand how critical brain regions are coordinated to regulate our capacity to learn, remember and store new information. Scientific literature is reviewed to uncover how interactions between separate brain systems encode new experiences associated with emotional learning, spatial memory, decision making, and also represent the source of dysfunctions that lead to memory problems in Alzheimer’s, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, Aging, etc.

Instructor: Williams

PSYC 4290: Memory Distortions

*Note: PSYC 4290 may be used to fulfill either the COGS Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psyc, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience major

Instructor: Dodson

PSYC 4310: Cognitive Aging
Credits: 3

Instructor: Teles Santos Golino

PSYC 4420: Brain Mapping with MRI
*Note: PSYC 4420 may be used to fulfill either the COGS Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050 or PSYC 3160
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psyc, Cognitive Science, Neurosci major

Description of course contents: Human neuroimaging technologies and analytics methods enable exploration of the form, function, and connectivity of the living brain. Students will gain familiarity with the origins of brain imaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), be able to discuss the technical foundations of image reconstruction, view and process raw neuroimaging structural and time-series data, and make inferences about the brain in health and in disease.

Instructor: Van Horn

PSYC 4500: Cognitive Psychology
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Enrollment Restrictions: Student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science major.
Description of course contents:

Instructor: Teles Santos Golino

PSYC 4640: Psychology of Emotions
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science major.
Description of course contents: This course will survey contemporary research and theory in affective science. We will examine the origins, functions, and behavioral and social consequences of emotions, paying particular attention to cross-cultural and cross-species evidence.

Instructor: Wood

PSYC 5332: Quantified Cognition
*Note: PSYC 5332 may be used to fulfill either the area or upper level requirement for Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, or Neuroscience area requirement, but not more than one.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psyc, Cognitive Science, Neurosci major, or second major in PSYC/COGS/NESC; GSAS or data science graduate.
Description of course contents: This class will provide the foundation necessary to start thinking mechanistically about how neural function gives rise to cognition. Although the focus will be on problems in psychology and neuroscience, the material will have potential for broad application and will cover topics including computational modeling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
Instructor: Sederberg

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Neuroscience

NESC 4265: Developmental Neurobiology
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Enrollment Restrictions: Student must have taken BIOL 3050 or PSYC 2200. Student must be a third or fourth year Psychology, Cognitive Science, or Neuroscience major.
Description of course contents: The diverse functions of the nervous system depend on precise wiring of connections between neurons. This course covers cellular and molecular processes of how neuronal connections are established during development. Diseases which result from failing to establish the circuitry will also be discussed. This course will introduce research methods and technology, and encourage students to develop logical rationale of contemporary research.

Instructor: Liu

PSYC 2200-1: Survey of Neural Basis
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Laboratory Required
Description of course contents: After an overview of brain organization and function, the course examines what we know about the physiological bases of several behaviors including sensation and perception, learning, memory, sleep development, hunger, thirst, and emotions.

Instructor: Clabough

PSYC 3160: Cognitive Neuroscience
*Note: PSYC 2160 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Instructor: Long

PSYC 4100 Neuroscience of Learning, Emotions and Motivation of Functional Behavior
*Note: PSYC 4100 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Students must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science or Neuroscience major.
Description of course contents: Learning, Emotions and Motivation will be explored from animal models of clinical conditions, historical case studies in humans of brain-derived emotional disturbances, and current innovations to treat brain disorders. These important discoveries will be presented for students to understand underlying biological and neural mechanisms that mediate adaptive changes to motivate healthy behavior.
Instructor: Williams

PSYC 4200 Neural Mechanisms of Behavior
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050
Enrollment Restrictions: Students must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science or Neuroscience major.
Description of course contents: Introduces basic concepts in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry needed for an understanding of brain and behavior. PSYC 3210 is recommended.
Instructor: Ribic

PSYC 4155: Autism: From Neurons to Neighborhoods
*Note: PSYC 4155 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both. Credits: 3

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science, or Neuroscience major.
Description of course contents: In this interdisciplinary seminar, we will discuss recent research on autism at multiple levels (biological, cognitive, social) and from multiple perspectives (autistic individuals, scientists, disability studies scholars, families, schools, community/government organizations).

Instructor: Jaswal

PSYC 4250: Brain Systems Involved in Memory

*Note: PSYC 4250 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both. Credits: 3

Prerequisite: PSYC 2200 or PSYC 3240 (PSYC 2210)

Enrollment Restrictions: Student must have taken PSYC 2200 or PSYC 2210 or 3240 Student must be a third or fourth year Psychology, Cognitive Science, or Neuroscience major.

Instructor: Williams

PSYC 4290: Memory Distortions

*Note: PSYC 4290 may be used to fulfill either the COGS Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psyc, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience major

Instructor: Dodson

PSYC 4420: Brain Mapping with MRI
*Note: This course- may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050 and PSYC 4200
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psyc, Cognitive Science, Neurosci major; or a Grad A&S student.

Description of course contents: Human neuroimaging technologies and analytics methods enable exploration of the form, function, and connectivity of the living brain. Students will gain familiarity with the origins of brain imaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), be able to discuss the technical foundations of image reconstruction, view and process raw neuroimaging structural and time-series data, and make inferences about the brain in health and in disease.

Instructor: Van Horn

BIOL 3050: Introduction to Neurobiology

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Must have completed BIOL 2100 (formerly BIOL 2010) or BME 2104 and BIOL 2200 (formerly BIOL 2020) or BIOL 2040

Instructors: Condron

BIOL 4045: Neurodegenerative Diseases

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 & BIOL 3050 and can’t enroll if previously taken BIOL 4559 topic #29 Neurodegenerative Diseases

Instructor: Bloom

BIOL 4190: Biological Clocks

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 or BIOL 3010 or BIOL 3020

Instructor: Provencio

BIOL 4270: Animal Behavior Laboratory

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: BIOL 3250

Instructor: Kawasaki

BIOL 4280: Genetic Basis of Behavior
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 and 3010 required
Description of course contents: This course studies behavior paradigms in model animals and the modern genetic tools used study and dissect the circuits underlying them. Can an animal as simple as a fly or mouse learn simple tasks, show appetitive behaviors and cravings, and inform studies of human addiction? Readings from classic and current literature will show the historical context of this field and develop critical reading skills.

Instructor: Hirsh

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Linguistics

ANTH 2400: Language and Culture

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: Introduces the interrelationships of linguistic, cultural, and social phenomena with emphasis on the importance of these interrelationships in interpreting human behavior. No prior knowledge of linguistics is required.

Instructor: Wendte

ANTH 2410: Sociolinguistics

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: Reviews key findings in the study of language variation. Explores the use of language to express identity and social difference.No background in linguistics is presupposed.

Instructor: Lefkowitz

ANTH 2430: Languages of the World

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Dobrin

ANTH 2541: Topics in Linguistics: French Creole Language Structures

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents:This course examines the similarities and differences in phonology, morphology, and syntax among those creole languages whose primary lexicon is derived from French. We also consider broader linguistic and anthropological issues concerning creoles. For example, while some have claimed that creoles exist as a typologically distinct class of languages, others have argued that their only commonality is their socio-histories. Familiarity with French, though not required, will be useful. This course fulfills the Structure requirement for Linguistics majors and counts as a Linguistics requirement for Cognitive Science majors.

Instructor: Wendte

ANTH 3450: Native American Languages (Designation: Non-Western)

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: Introduces the native languages of North America and the methods that linguists and anthropologists use to record and analyze them. Examines the use of grammars, texts and dictionaries of individual languages and affords insight into the diversity among the languages.

Instructor: Jennings-Arey

ANTH 3480: Language and Prehistory

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: This course covers the basic principles of diachronic linguistics – the study of how languages change over time – and discusses the uses of linguistic data in the reconstruction of prehistory. We will consider the use of linguistic evidence in tracing prehistory population movements, in demonstrating contact among prehistoric groups, and in the reconstruction of daily life. To the extent that the literature permits, examples and case studies will be drawn from the Mayan language area of Central America, and will include discussion of the pre-Columbian Mayan writing system and its ongoing decipherment. This course fulfills the linguistics distribution requirement for Anthropology majors and for Cognitive Science majors. It also fulfills the Historical requirement for the Linguistics BA and MA.

Instructor: Danziger

ANTH 4420: Theories of Language
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Description of course contents: Survey of modern schools of linguistics, both American and European, discussing each approach in terms of historical and intellectual context, analytical goals, assumptions about the nature of language, and relation between theory and methodology
Instructor: Sicoli

ANTH 5541 100 Topics: Theory and Practice of Language Documentation
Credits: 3

Description of the course contents: This course explores the theoretical, practical, and ethical foundations of language documentation and linguistic fieldwork, forms of research that can hardly be separated in this era of global language shift and endangerment. How do the motivations of linguistic field research differ across interested constituencies, including scholars of various personal and academic backgrounds, the public, and speech communities themselves? What kinds of considerations, both linguistic and extralinguistic, must be addressed when planning and carrying out a linguistically-focused fieldwork project? Finally, we will think deeply about the audiovisual recordings and field notes that result from linguistic fieldwork: Who owns these artifacts? How should they be stored and presented? How should access to them be regulated? What is the relationship between these forms of linguistic data and the languages that they purport to represent? And to what extent can the outcomes of linguistic field research be reduced to such artifacts apart from the social relations that enabled their production?

Instructor: Dobrin

ANTH 5541 200 Topics: The Anthropology of Truth and Belief
Credits: 3

Description of the course contents:

What makes us believe? Across history and cultures there have been different answers: perhaps faith in an ultimate authority, reliance on first-hand evidence, or interpersonal trust in others’ sincerity. In the context of current anxiety over fake news and misinformation, we examine various regimes of belief, with special attention to the role of speech and language in them, and to their influence on ideas about the nature of language itself.

Instructor: Danziger

ASL 3450: Comparative Linguistics: ASL and English
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Description of course contents: Describes spoken English and ASL (American Sign Language) on five levels: phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, and discourse and compares/contrasts them using real-world examples. Describes major linguistic components and processes of English and ASL. Introduces basic theories regarding ASL structure. Emphasizes ASL's status as a natural language by comparing/contrasting similarities and unique differences between the two languages.
Instructor: Jennings-Arey

EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Loncke

FREN 4509-001 Seminar in French Linguistics: The Bilingual Speaker

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: FREN 3030, 3031, and one 4000-level course in French

Description of course contents: Topics of specific interest to faculty and advanced undergraduate students.

Instructor: Saunders

LING 3400: Structure of English

(obligatory 1 credit discussion)

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Crabtree

LNGS 3250: Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Analysis

(optional 1 credit discussion section)

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: Introduces sign systems, language as a sign system, and approaches to linguistics description. Emphasizes the application of descriptive techniques to data.

Instructor: Elson

LING 4650 Linguistic Typology

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: none

Description of the Course Contents: Linguistic typologists study the patterns of grammatical forms and relations as they vary and converge across the diversity of the world’s languages. Students in this course examine and critically evaluate definitions, methods and results of typological research, and gain practice analyzing linguistic data through typological lenses.

Instructor: Mirzayan

SPAN 3000: Spanish Phonetics

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 3010

Instructor: Mendoza

SPAN 4530: Spanish vis-à-vis Other Romance Languages

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or department placement, instructor permission

Description of course contents: Drawing on a comparative approach to language change, this course traces the primitive origins and historical development of the major linguistic changes taking place in the passage from Latin to Spanish and other Romance (i.e., Latin-derived) languages, mainly Portuguese, Italian, and French. Topics to be explored include: Expected and unexpected phonological changes in the neo-Latin language continuum; the role of analogy and ‘contamination’ in language change; etymological and non-etymological nasalization; the object + verb to verb + object shift; the prepositional direct object; pronominal replacement and duplication of direct and indirect objects.

Instructor: Mendoza

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Philosophy

PHIL 2420: Introduction to Symbolic Logic
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: A basic introduction to the concepts and techniques of modern formal logic. The aim of this course is to give the student a working knowledge of both sentential and quantifier logic. Students will learn how to translate claims and arguments from English into a formal system, and to test arguments for validity. Discussion Required.
Instructor: Cameron

PHIL 2500 (Section 200): Minds, Machines, and Persons
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: This course surveys foundational issues in the philosophy of cognitive science and mind. Part 1 addresses foundational questions about cognition. Is the mind a brain? A computer? Does the mind extend into the body and environment? What is a mental representation? Part 2 turns to the so-called “Hard Problem” of consciousness: can a physicalist theory of mind explain conscious experience? Part 3 concludes with the problem of personal identify over time. Once you were a kid, now you are an adult, and one day you'll grow old. What (if anything) makes you the same person throughout these stages of your life?
Instructor: Irving

PHIL2820: Philosophy of Health and Healthcare

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents In this class, we’ll first discuss the question ‘what is health?’ How do we define what it means to be healthy? Is there a difference between physical and mental health? Is there a difference between health and overall well- being? Is health a biological concept or is it something normative? Then we’ll look at specific puzzles that arise in health care related to how we understand health and disease. For example, how do we measure health outcomes? How do we deal with the inherent subjectivity of some aspects of health, such as pain? What is the relationship between what we consider ‘healthy’ and what our culture values or stigmatizes?

Instructor: Barnes

PHIL 3010: Darwin and Philosophy

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents This course explores the history and the philosophical implications of Darwin’s revolutionary idea—that the unguided process of natural selection could explain the magnificent variety and adaptedness of living things and their descent from a common ancestor. We will look at Darwin’s historical, scientific and cultural context, and the evidence and arguments by which Darwin supported his theory. Philosophical topics will include: How are scientific theories supported by evidence? What makes evolutionary theory an accepted scientific theory? What are its moral implications? What does it tell us about human nature, how we should treat one another, and how we should relate to the environment upon which we depend?

same person throughout these stages of your life?
Instructor: Eaker

PHIL 3500: Seminar in Philosophy: Consciousness
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Description of course contents:

Instructor: Irving

PHIL 3620: Science Fiction and Philosophy
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: Science fiction is a distinctively philosophical genre. Science fiction stories can cause us to question the bounds of what is possible, explore ethical questions that arise in alien circumstances, explore the nature of the self and the very nature of reality, and so on. This course will investigate philosophical questions via science fiction literature, and use philosophy to explore the nature of science fiction.

Instructor: Cameron

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Computer Science

The most common introductory-level Computer Science courses for Cognitive Science majors are:

Instructor: Pettit

Instructor: Apostolellis

CS 1112: Introduction to Programming
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: A first course in programming, software development, and computer science. Introduces computing fundamentals and an appreciation for computational thinking. Prerequisite: Students must have no previous programming experience. Note: CS 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, and 1120 provide different approaches to teaching the same core material; students may only receive credit for one of these courses.

Instructor: Cohoon

CS 2100 Data Structures and Algorithms 1

Instructor 001: Horton; 002 & 003: Basit

CS 2120: Discrete Mathematics and Theory 1

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 1110 or CS 1111 or CS 1112 or CS 1113 with a grade of C- or better OR successfully completed the CS 1110 place out test.
Description of course contents: Introduces discrete mathematics and proof techniques involving first order predicate logic and induction. Application areas include sets, tuples, functions, relations, and combinatorial problems. Prereq: CS 1100 - CS 1199

Instructor: Orrico

CS 2130: Computer Systems and Organization 1

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 1110 or CS 1111 or CS 1112 or CS 1113 with a grade of C- or better OR successfully completed the CS 1110 place out test.
Description of course contents: This course covers topics on the computer architecture abstraction hierarchy ranging from a step above silicon to a step below modern programming languages. Students in this course will learn to write low-level code in C and Assembly, how data is stored in memory, the basics of hardware design from gates and registers through general-purpose computers, and legal, ethical, and security issues related to these topics. CS 1100 - CS 1199 and either familiarity with Java, C++, or another C-like language, or concurrent enrollment in CS 2100

Instructor: TBA

CS 2150: Program and Data Representation

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Student must have completed CS 2110 with grades of C- or higher, or the CS 2110 placement test AND must be currently enrolled in or previously taken CS 2102 or CS 2120
Description of course contents: Introduces programs and data representation at the machine level. Data structuring techniques and the representation of data structures during program execution. Operations and control structures and their representation during program execution. Representations of numbers, arithmetic operations, arrays, records, recursion, hashing, stacks, queues, trees, graphs, and related concepts. Prerequisite: CS 2110 with grades of C- or higher, or the CS 2110 placement test; co-requisite CS 2102 or CS 2120

Instructor: Bloomfield

CS 3100 Data Structures and Algorithms 2

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 2100 and CS 2120

Instructor: Floryan

CS 3120: Discrete Mathematics and Theory 2

Instructor: Brunelle

CS 3130: Computer Systems and Organization 2

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 2100 and CS 2130

Instructor: Tychonievich

CS 3140: Software Development Essentials

NOTE: This class may only be taken by students in new course curriculum (that is, students who took CS 2100 - DSA 1). If you took CS 2110 and CS 2150, you are not able to take this course.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 2100 and CS 2120

Instructor: 001-McBurney; 002-Nguyen

CS 3205: HCI in Software Development

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Must have completed CS 2100 and CS 2110

Instructor: Apostolellis

PLEASE see additional CS 3000+ courses

Note: ECE 2066: Science of Information will count for major credit but does not fulfill the CS area requirement.

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Elective Credit Only

EDLF 3160: Introduction to Educational Psychology (Please note: Only this section of EDLF 3160 taught by Dr. Grammer is eligible for COGS elective credit and will not show in the COGS SIS AR until you receive a grade and it is added to SIS. The exception being if you are a 4th year, the Program Coordinator will enter it after add/drop)

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: Most college students have spent 16,000+ hours in educational settings. That's a lot of time devoted to learning new information. This course addresses questions such as: Why does learning take so long? What really happens inside the brain? What keeps people motivated to learn? Are some environments better than others for learning? What societal conditions impact learning? Are people similar or different in the way they learn?

Instructor: Grammer

Summer 2022

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Psychology

PSYC 2005: Research Methods & Data Analysis I (Session 3)
Credits: 3

Instructor: Smyth

PSYC 2500: Psychology of Misinformation (Session 2)
Credits: 3

Instructor: Golino

PSYC 3006: Research Methods & Data Analysis II (Session 2)
Credits: 3

Instructor: Joseph Meyer & Karen Schmidt

PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Session 3)
*Note: PSYC 4110 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Linguistics area requirement, but not both. Either PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Loncke) or EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication (Loncke) may be taken for credit, but not both.
Credits: 3
Instructor: Filip T. Loncke

PSYC 4500 Myths And Controversies (Session 3)

Credits: 3

Instructor: Elizabeth Gross

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Neuroscience

PSYC 2200 : Neural Basis of Behavior (Session 2)
Credits: 3

Instructor: Erin Clabough

PSYC 3210: Psychobiology Lab (Session 1)
Credits: 3

Instructor: Erin Clabough

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Linguistics

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Philosophy

PHIL 1510-1 How To Think About Weird Things (Session 1)
Credits: 3

This is mainly an epistemology class, with a little philosophy of science, applied to weird phenomena like ghosts, UFOs, and ESP. We talk about some main ideas in epistemology, like reasons and evidence, then apply them in depth to beliefs about the paranormal.

Instructor: Kirra Hyde

PHIL 1510-2 Social Media Ethics (Session 1)
Credits: 3

Students will engage with contemporary philosophical theory, data, news & policy to better understand what the social media ecosystem looks like & what role they play. By placing contemporary social media company policies alongside philosophical ethical theories, students will develop a foundational understanding of key ethical concepts and learn reasoning skills that will help them be more intentional about the choices they make online and off.

Instructor: Stephen Marrone

PHIL 1510-3 Free Will and Moral Responsibility (Session 3).
Credits: 3

What does it mean to have free will? Are we ever morally responsible for our actions? Has science disproved free will? Do all of our actions flow from factors outside of our control? We will consult contemporary philosophical sources as we study these questions and others.

Instructor: Ethan Butt

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Computer Science

CS 1110 Introduction to Programming (Session I)

Credits: 3

Instructor: Raymond Petit

CS 2102 Software Development Methods (Session 3)

Prerequisite: CS 1110, 1111, 1112, or 1120 with grade of C- or above

Credits: 3

Instructor: Elizabeth Orrico

CS 2110 Software Development Methods (Session 2)

Prerequisite: CS 1110, 1111, 1112, or 1120 with grade of C- or above

Credits: 3

Instructor: Paul McBurney

CS 3102 Theory of Computation (will all count as UL Computer Science Concentration Courses) (Session 2)

Prerequisite: CS 2102 and 2110 both with grades of C- or above

Credits: 3

Instructor: Nathan Brunelle

CS 3205 HCI in Software Development (will all count as UL Computer Science Concentration Course) (Session I)

Prerequisite: CS 2110

Credits: 3

Instructor: Panagiotis Apostolellis

CS 3710 Intro to Cybersecurity (will all count as UL Computer Science Concentration Course) (Session I)

Prerequisite: CS 2110

Credits: 3

Instructor: Aaron Bloomfield

(CS 4102, 4640,and 4750 will all count as UL Computer Science Concentration Courses)

Spring 2022

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Cognitive Psychology

PSYC 2005-1 & 2: Research Methods & Data Analysis I
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Enrollment restrictions: None
Description of course contents: Introduces research methods in psychology, integrating statistical analysis.
Instructor: Morris & Clark (different sections)

PSYC 2150: Introduction to Cognition

PSYC 3006: Research Methods & Data Analysis II
Credits: 4 (Required lab)
Prerequisites: PSYC 2005 or 3005 with grade of C or higher. May not be taken concurrently with 2005
Description of course contents: A continuation of discussion of research methods in psychology, including computer-controlled experimentation, integrated with computer-based exploratory data analysis, and elementary statistical analysis. Three lecture hours, two laboratory hours. Instructor: Meyer and Schmidt

PSYC 3310: R Applications in Psychology

PSYC 3490 Infant Development
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 1010
Enrollment Restrictions: None
Description of course contents Infancy is the time of life during which enormous changes take place- newborns are very different from the inquisitive, walking and talking 2-year-old. The following lines of development during the first two years are traced in detail: motor, perceptual, cognitive, social, and emotional development. Environmental influences, including parental behavior are considered, as well as the effect the infant has on caregivers.
Instructor: Grossman

PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Fulfills Second Writing Requirement in CAS)
*Note: PSYC 4110 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Linguistics area requirement, but not both. Either PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Loncke) or EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication (Loncke) may be taken for credit, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Third or fourth year Psychology or Cognitive Science major/second major

Instructor: Loncke

PSYC 4155: Autism: From Neurons to Neighborhoods

*Note: PSYC 4155 may be used to fulfill either the area or upper level requirement for Cognitive Psychology or Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology; Cognitive Science; or Neuroscience major.
Description of course contents: In this interdisciplinary seminar, we will discuss recent research on autism at multiple levels (biological, cognitive, social) and from multiple perspectives (autistic individuals, scientists, disability studies scholars, families, schools, community/government organizations).

Instructor: Jaswal

PSYC 4280: Neural Basis of Empathy

*Note: PSYC 4280 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Must have completed BIOL 3050 (formerly BIOL 3170) or PSYC 2200 or PSYC 3240

Enrollment Restrictions: 3rd or 4th year Psychology or Cognitive Science or Neuroscience major

Instructor: Clabough

PSYC 4290: Memory Distortions

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment Restrictions: 3rd or 4th year Psychology or Cognitive Science or Neuroscience major

Description of course contents: Although memory is generally accurate, some illusions and distortions in remembering are unavoidable. We will review both neuroscience and cognitive research on a variety of different memory problems, ranging from relatively benign tip-of-the-tongue experiences to untrustworthy eye witness testimony. Our ultimate goal will be to understand the neural basis and cognitive processes that contribute to these constructive memory phenomena.

Instructor: Dodson

PSYC 4500- Section 005 Cognitive Psychology

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC or CogSci majors.

Description of course contents: This course will cover different techniques and methods used in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Through an applied approach, the content studied throughout the semester is integrated with the current research conducted in the cognitive psychology labs.

Instructor: Teles Santos Golino

PSYC 4500-Section 006: High-Level Cognition

Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC or CogSci majors.

Instructor: Willingham

PSYC 4606: Cognitive Biases in Anxiety Disorder

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2410

Enrollment Restrictions: PSYC 2410 and restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psychology or Cognitive Science majors.

Instructor: Teachman

PSYC 5270: Computational Neuroscience
*Note: PSYC 5720 may be used to fulfill either the area or upper level requirement for Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, or Neuroscience area requirement, but not more than one.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year major/2nd major Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience; or graduate A&S student.
Description of course contents: Develops skills in processing neural data and analyzing its relationship to stimulus or motor activity. Topics include information theory, receptive fields, point processes, and mixed-effects models. Emphasis is on implementing theoretical concepts with computer programs.

Instructor: Meliza

PSYC 5323 R in Psychology
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year major/2nd major Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience; or graduate A&S student.

Instructor: Meyer

PSYC 5710: Machine Learning and Data Mining
*Note: PSYC 5710 may be used to fulfill either the area or upper level requirement for Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, or Neuroscience area requirement, but not more than one.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Enrollment Restrictions: 3rd or 4th year Psychology or Cognitive Science or Neuroscience major/2nd major; or a Grad A&S student.
Description of course contents: While most psychological studies ask "is something different between groups?", in this course we will introduce quantitative methods to answer the question "what is different between groups?", ie., we ask which part (or combination) of our data maximizes the chances to distinguish between given groups.
Instructor: Golino

PSYC 5720: Fundamentals of Item Response Theory
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Undergraduates PSYC 2005 or 3005 and 3006
Enrollment Restrictions: Instructor Permission only. Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course

Prerequisite: 4th year Psychology major or minor or 4th year in Cognitive Science or Graduate student.

Instructor: Schmidt

EDLF 5040: Education and Neuroscience

*Note: EDLF 5040 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Enrollment restrictions: None
Description of course contents: In this course we will cover theories, methods, and research at the intersection of education and neuroscience and the implications of this work for educational practice. Major topics include research on student development in reading and math, as well as the development of foundational skills that support student learning, including executive functions, emotion regulation, and motivation.

Instructor: Grammer

EDLF 5260: Cognitive Psychology and Education
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Jirout

EDLF 5270 Adult Development and Aging

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment restrictions: None

Instructor: Whaley

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Neuroscience

BME 3636 Neural Network Models of Cognition and Brain Computation
*Note: BME 3636 may be used to fulfill either the area or upper level requirement for Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, or Neuroscience area requirement, but not more than one.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Cross-listed as NESC 5330. CS 1110; and BIOM 2101; or permission of the instructor.
Description of course contents: This is an introductory course to neural networks research, specifically biologically-based networks that reproduce cognitive phenomena. The goal of this course is to teach the basic thinking and methodologies used in constructing and understanding neural-like networks.
Instructor: Levy

PSYC 2200: A Survey of the Neural Basis of Behavior

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment Restrictions: Not allowed if BIOL 3050 has been taken or are currently enrolled

Description of course contents: After an overview of brain organization and function, the course examines what we know about the physiological bases of several behaviors including sensation and perception, learning, memory, sleep development, hunger, thirst, and emotions. An optional weekly review session is offered for those who wish to attend.

Instructor: Clabough

PSYC 3200-001: Fundamentals of Neuroscience

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 and BIOL 2100. Enrollment not allowed if already completed or enrolled in BIOL 3050

Enrollment Restrictions: Instructor Consent Required. (If this course is full through SIS: Please use the online wait list. Do not email professor.)

Description of course contents: This course will build on students' general knowledge of Neuroscience topics and aim to achieve a deeper understanding of the fundamental principles of Neuroscience. Topics covered: (1) cell biological and electrical properties of the neuron; (2) synaptic transmission and synaptic plasticity; (3) transduction of physical stimuli and processing of sensory information; and (4) development and evolution and the nervous system.

Instructor: Erisir and Cang

PSYC 4155: Autism: From Neurons to Neighborhoods

Instructor: Jaswal

PSYC 4200: Neural Mechanisms of Behavior

Credits: 4

Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or 3050

Enrollment Restrictions: Student must be a third or fourth year Psychology, Cognitive Science, or Neuroscience major.

Description of course contents: Introduces basic concepts in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry needed for an understanding of brain and behavior. PSYC 3210 is recommended.

Instructor: Ribic

PSYC 4280: Neural Basis of Empathy

*Note: PSYC 4280 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Must have completed BIOL 3050 (formerly BIOL 3170) or PSYC 2200 or PSYC 3240

Enrollment Restrictions: 3rd or 4th year Psychology or Cognitive Science or Neuroscience major

Instructor: Clabough

Instructor: Meliza

BIOL 3250: Introduction to Animal Behavior
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL 2100 (2010) or BME 2104 and BIOL 2200 (2020)
Description of course contents: An introduction to comparative studies of animal behavior from neuroethological and evolutionary perspectives. The first deals with proximate causes of behavior, with emphases on motor, sensory and central aspects of the nervous system. The second deals with ultimate causes, with emphases on natural selection, natural history, and adaptive aspects of behavior.
Instructor: Kawasaki

BIOL 4011: Homeostasis Wisdom of the Body
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL 3050 and cannot enroll if taken BIOL 4559 # 22
Description of course contents: The human body maintains stable energy levels, hydration, and temperature despite the challenges of ever-changing external environment, a process known as homeostasis. This course explores biological models and mechanisms of homeostasis, including how survival needs are monitored and met through changes in behavior and physiology. Students will gain a state-of-the-art perspective on homeostatic biology and its research methods and technology.
Instructor: Campbell

BIOL 4013: Stem Cells in Development and Disease
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 or BIOL 3010
Description of course contents: The course will deep dive into what stem cells are, what they do, where and how they function, and how we can use stem cells in the clinic to repair damaged tissue and restore tissue function. The course will consist of a series of lectures and student run discussions related to current scientific literature.
Instructor: Siegrist

BIOL 4190: Biological Clocks
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 or BIOL 3010 or 3020
Description of course contents: Introduces biological timekeeping as used by organisms for controlling diverse processes, including sleep-wakefulness cycles, photoperiodic induction and regression, locomotor rhythmicity, eclosion rhythmicity, and the use of the biological clock in orientation and navigation. Prerequisite: BIOL 3000 or 3010 or 3020
Instructor: Provencio

BIOL 4320: Signal Transduction: How Cells Talk To Each Other
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 or BIOL 3010
Description of course contents: This advanced undergraduate course explores how cells communicate with each other and respond to their environment. This area of biology is referred to as signal transduction and is the basis for most if not all normal and disease processes in humans. Therefore, significant time is spent on defining archetypal signaling modules that all cells use to receive and communicate information to and from their environment. Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 & BIOL 3010
Instructor: Deppman

BIOL 4330: Wiring the Brain
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL 3050 (previously BIOL 3170) or PSYC 4200
Description of course contents: This course will cover the current state of knowledge for how neurons form connections in the brain. The course will initially focus on how relatively simple model systems have provided the critical clues as to how specific synaptic connections form. This will be followed by a discussion of how this knowledge can be applied to the understanding and treatment of human neural disorders. About a quarter of the course will be standard lectures and the remainder student-led discussion of primary literature. Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 and BIOL 3010; BIOL 3170 or Psych 2200.
Instructor: Condron

BIOL 4340: Experimental Foundations of Neurobiology
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 and BIOL 3010; BIOL 3170 or PSYC 2200
Description of course contents: The course content will focus on three areas of neurobiological research: conduction of the nervous impulse, sensory physiology, and synaptic physiology.
Instructor: Mellon

EDLF 5040: Education and Neuroscience

*Note: EDLF 5040 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Grammer

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Linguistics

ANTH 2410: Sociolinguistics

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: Reviews key findings in the study of language variation. Explores the use of language to express identity and social difference.

Instructor: Lefkowitz

ANTH 2415: Language in Human Evolution

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: Examines the evolution of our capacity for language along with the development of human ways of cooperating in engaged social interaction. Course integrates cognitive, cultural, social, and biological aspects of language in comparative perspective. How is the familiar shape of language today the result of evolutionary and developmental processes involving the form, function, meaning and use of signs and symbols in social ecologies?

Instructor: Sicoli

ANTH 2541: Language Death and Revitalization

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: The United Nations declared 2019 the Year of Indigenous Languages in order to raise awareness of the rapid rate at which the world's linguistic diversity is being depleted. This course examines the causes, effects, and ideologies surrounding language endangerment. It also explores the creative processes by which some communities and individuals are resisting the forces of linguistic homogenization and erasure.

Instructor: Wendte

ANTH 3559: New Course: Anthropological Linguistics

Prerequisites: None

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: The study of human language has often been conducted in isolation from other sciences, especially social ones. This course introduces students to an anthropological approach to linguistics that takes into account the various ways in which sociocultural factors can influence the production, use, and conceptualization of language. We will trace the development of this trend in scholarship from its beginnings to the present day.

Instructor: Wendte

ANTH 3450: Native American Languages
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: LNGS 3250 or another Linguistics course/permission
Description of course contents: Introduces the native languages of North America and the methods that linguists and anthropologists use to record and analyze them. Examines the use of grammars, texts and dictionaries of individual languages and affords insight into the diversity among the languages.
Instructor: Mirzayan

ANTH 3541: Language and Music

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: This course covers material from sound studies, linguistics, and anthropology. We will address traits that language and music each use in distinctive ways (rhythm, tone, meaning, structure, and embodiment), as well as work through case studies of overlap between language and music (genres of songs, talking drums, whistled speech, and musical replacement of speech), to illuminate the relationship between the two categories.

Instructor: Hoequist

LING 3559 New Course: Tunica Language Typology and Revitalization

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Prior course in linguistic analysis

Description of course contents: This course introduces students to the structures of Tunica, a language isolate, and examines them in both historical and contemporary contexts. The Tunica, an Indigenous group of the Lower Mississippi Valley, have been in regular contact with European and American colonizers since the early 18th century. Students will study the diachrony of this Indigenous group as well as the unique features of their reawakening ancestral language.

Instructor: Wendte

ANTH 5401: Linguistic Field Methods
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Prior coursework in linguistic analysis/instructor permission

Description of course contents: The goal of this course is to get hands-on practice doing linguistic analysis based entirely on data collected from a native speaker of a language. [NOTE: “entirely” means that you should not look up already-published grammars and dictionaries or search the web for descriptions of the language we are working on. For the purposes of this course, we will act as if no grammar or dictionary yet exists.] We will work collaboratively on the same language for the whole semester. Data collection will begin with phonetic transcription of individual words, with the goal of learning to hear the phonetic detail of an unfamiliar language, and the first assignment will be an analysis of the phonemes of the language, including rules for allophonic variation where relevant. After working out the phonemic system, we will move to analysis of grammar (word structure and phrase/sentence structure), starting with phrases and sentences and going on to a short text.

Instructor: Mirzayan

ANTH 5410: Phonology

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: LNGS 3250 or permission of instructor

Description of course contents: Phonology is concerned with the way speech sounds are organized as systems. Which sounds occur in a given language? What are the rules for their combination? How are they realized in different positions of a word or phrase? In order to answer these kinds of questions, we look not only at the patterning of segments, but also at the way that patterning is explained in terms of more basic properties, features. We look at higher level prosodic structures like syllables that group sounds into larger units. We also study aspects of the speech signal that are in principle independent of the segment, like stress, tone, and rhythm. In this course students gain experience analyzing phonological systems in a theoretically informed way. They learn to appreciate what kinds of problems the field of phonology aims to account for, to argue for solutions to such problems, and to understand the significance of their analyses in terms of the broader concerns of phonological theory. Coursework involves reading, class discussion, and solving homework problems.

Instructor: Mirzayan

ANTH 5440: Morphology
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: One Linguistics course (preferred) or Instructor Permission
Description of course contents: This course provides an overview of recent morphological theory, focusing on recurring themes that have arisen as the subfield has sought to find its place within the generative paradigm. The issues we will cover fall mainly into two broad groupings: those that relate morphology to phonology (such as allomorphy and word formation) and those that relate it to syntax (e.g., inflection, distinguishing compounds from phrases). Throughout the course we will be mindful of whether there is such a thing as pure morphology, a core set of phenomena having to do with word structure which motivates a distinct component of grammar.
Instructor: Dobrin

ANTH 5475: Multimodal Interaction

Credits 3

Prerequisites: Prior coursework in linguistic analysis/instructor permission

Description of course contents: Students will build knowledge and practice of the analysis of peoples’ joint-engagement in embodied interactions. We examine the history of the use of film and video in interaction analysis and the affordances of these media for examining spatiotemporal configurations of talk, techniques of body action, and tool use in social interaction. How does action weave together multiple sensory modalities into semiotic webs linking interactions with more durative institutions of social life? What are the theoretical consequences for an anthropology that takes the multimodal construction of meaning seriously? Course includes workshops on video recording, and the transcription and coding of both verbal and non-verbal actions. Transcript analysis “data sessions” will be conducted throughout the term, allowing student to hone their analytical skills for video analysis. Students will work on projects incorporating video production and analysis.

Instructor: Sicoli

CLAS 3300: Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: Languages as superficially different as English, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit in fact all developed from a single "proto-language," called Proto-Indo-European. This course will explore the following questions: What was this proto-language like? How do we know what it was like? By what processes did it develop into the various daughter languages? How can we trace words as diverse as wit, idea, video, and Veda back to a common source?

Instructor: George

EDHS 4030: Speech and Hearing Science

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: None
Description of course contents: The course examines principal concepts and procedures for the study of physiologic, perceptual and acoustic aspects of voice, speech and hearing. The course leads the student into the fascinating world of new applications in daily life, in business, and especially in education and clinical work.

Instructor: Loncke

FREN 3030: Phonetics

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: FREN 2020 (or equivalent)

Description of course contents: FREN 3030 is an introductory course in French phonetics. It provides basic concepts in articulatory phonetics and phonological theory, and offers students techniques for improving their own pronunciation. The course will cover the physical characteristics of individual French sounds; the relationship between these sounds and their written representation (orthography); the rules governing the pronunciation of "standard FREN French"; the most salient phonological features of selected French varieties; phonetic differences between French and English sounds; and to some extent, ‘la musique du français’, i.e., prosodic phenomena (le rythme, l’accent, l’intonation, la syllabation). Practical exercises in 'ear-training' (the perception of sounds) and 'phonetic transcription' (using IPA) are also essential components of this dynamic course. Prerequisite: FREN 2020 (or equivalent). Course taught in French.

Instructor: Saunders

PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Fulfills Second Writing Requirement in CAS)
*Note: PSYC 4110 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Linguistics area requirement, but not both. Either PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Loncke) or EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication (Loncke) may be taken for credit, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course and 4th year Psychology or Cognitive Science major/minor

Instructor: Loncke

RUSS 5032: Advanced Russian Grammar: Syntax
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Enrollment Restrictions: RUSS 2010 and 2020 and Instructor Permission
Description of course contents: This course is a formal and systematic analysis of the basic syntactic structures of the contemporary Russian literary language with frequent comparison to English (and other, when possible) structures. The emphasis will be on data, not theoretical principles although the conventional theoretical machinery and language of syntax (phrase structure, complement, anaphora) will be used at all times in class and on assignments.
Instructor: Elson

SPAN 4200: History of the Language

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 3200 and 3010, or 3000 and 3010, or department placement. Instructor Consent Required

Instructor: Rini

SPAN 4203: Structure of Spanish

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 3015 and 3200

Description of course contents: Seminar in Spanish linguistics. This is an

advanced introduction to the study of fundamental aspects of the sound and grammatical systems of the Spanish language. The course will start by analyzing present-day (syllable, word and phrase) structures of the language and it will progress toward a more detailed examination of some of the linguistic processes and changes involved in the development of those structures. Prior coursework in linguistics is expected. Taught in Spanish.

Instructor: Rini

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Philosophy

PHIL 2500: Survey on Topic: Slurs
Credits: 3
Description of course contents:

Instructor: Fox

PHIL 2640: Rational Choice and Happiness (Fulfills Second Writing Requirement in CAS)
Credits: 3

Instructor: Barnes

PHIL 2652: Animal Minds and Animal Ethics
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: Other species seem to represent objects in their environments, think about the thoughts of their conspecifics, and perhaps even use language. Some seem to have long-term memory, emotion, and self-awareness. Do they in fact do all of these things, and if so, how, and in what sense? We will engage philosophically with the best scientific evidence available to answer these and similar questions before considering their ethical implications.

Instructor: Ott

PHIL 3010: Darwin and Philosophy

same person throughout these stages of your life?
Instructor: Eaker

PHIL 3330: Philosophy of the Mind
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: What is the nature of the mind and why do we find its nature so puzzling? We shall critically examine various theories about the nature of the mind; we shall also discuss the nature of particular kinds of mental states and events, such as beliefs, desires, feelings, sensory experiences, and others. We shall be especially concerned with the relations between the mind and the body, and, more generally, between the mental and the physical. Most of the readings will be by contemporary philosophers. (This course satisfies the major concentration requirement in Metaphysics and Epistemology.)
Instructor: Ott

PHIL 3400: Introduction to Non-Classical Logic
Credits: 3
Description of course contents: An introduction to systems of non-classical logic, including both extensions and revisions to classical logic. We will look at logical systems that extend classical logic to deal with the phenomena of possibility and time. We will look at logics that revise classical logic to allow for sentences which are neither true nor false, or sentences which can be both. We will show how these departures from classical logic can shed light on various philosophical questions.

Instructor: Cameron

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Computer Science

The most common introductory-level Computer Science courses for Cognitive Science majors are:

CS 11XX series: Introduction to Programming (Credits: 3)

CS 2110: Software Development Methods (Credits: 3)

CS 2120 (was 2102 till Fall 2021): Discrete Mathematics and Theory I (Credits: 3)

CS 2150: Program and Data Representation (Credits: 3)

Instructor: Meliza

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KINE 3660: Neuroscience of Exercise

Instructor: Resch

January 2022

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Cognitive Psychology

PSYC 4260 Genetic and Epigenetic Research in Behavior

*Note: PSYC 4360 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits 3

Description of Course: We will discuss basic concepts in genetics/epigenetics and the role these molecular modifications play in behavior and disorder. We will evaluate empirical papers and learn the molecular techniques described within them. We will interrogate the genome databases and learn about how to identify and isolate differences in human DNA sequence. Completion of this course should result in increased knowledge of the use of genome level data in psychology and biology.

Instructor:: Connelly

PSYC 4559 Exploring the Human Brain

*Note: PSYC 4559 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits 3

Description of Course:

Instructor:: Morris

PSYC 5326 The Neuroscience of Social Relationships

*Note: PSYC 5326 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2005/3005
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year major/2nd major Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience; or graduate A&S student.
Credits 3

Description of Course: This course will provide a broad overview of neuroscientific research into social relationships. The field is relatively new, and changing quickly. After a brief review of the neuroscientific methods we are likely to encounter in this literature, the course will be oriented toward readings and discussion, with brief research proposals presented at the end. PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050 recommended.

Instructor:: Coan

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Neuroscience

PSYC 3210 Research Methods: Psychbiology Laboratory

Credits 3

Pre-requisites: PSYC 2200

Description of Course: Develops skills necessary for the study of neural bases of behavior, such as brain dissection, histology, behavioral analysis, and genetic/epigenetic analyses. Emphasis is on mastering contemporary techniques used in neuroscience research and effective, professional written presentation of research findings.

Instructor: Clabough

PSYC 4260 Genetic and Epigenetic Research in Behavior

*Note: PSYC 4360 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits 3

Instructor:: Connelly

PSYC 4559 Exploring the Human Brain

*Note: PSYC 4559 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits 3

Description of Course:

Instructor:: Morris

PSYC 5326 The Neuroscience of Social Relationships

*Note: PSYC 5326 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2005/3005
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year major/2nd major Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience; or graduate A&S student.
Credits 3

Instructor:: Coan

Fall 2021

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Cognitive Psychology

EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Loncke

PSYC 2005-1 & 2: Research Methods & Data Analysis I
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Enrollment restrictions: None
Description of course contents: Introduces research methods in psychology, integrating statistical analysis.
Instructor: Morris (Section 100) Staff (Section 200)

PSYC 2150: Introduction to Cognition

PSYC 3006: Research Methods & Data Analysis II
Credits: 4 (Required lab)
Prerequisites: PSYC 2005 or 3005 with a grade of C or higher

PSYC 3100: Learning and the Neuroscience of Behavior
*Note: PSYC 3100 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: None
Description of course contents: The course will examine historical and current theories of learning that provide the foundation for most, if not all forms of an organism's behavior. Students will be exposed to a diverse range of experimental findings that led to principles and concepts that currently explain how environmental, social and emotional factors influence the brain and body to shape human and animal behavior.
Instructor: Williams

PSYC 3160: Cognitive Neuroscience (Note: New Number)
*Note: PSYC 3160 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Instructor: Long

PSYC 3310: R Applications in Psychology

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

PSYC 4155: Autism: From Neurons to Neighborhoods
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment is not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course (except PSYC 4910-4980) per semester and student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science major.
Description of course contents: In this interdisciplinary seminar, we will discuss recent research on autism at multiple levels (biological, cognitive, social) and from multiple perspectives (autistic individuals, scientists, disability studies scholars, families, schools, community/government organizations).

Instructor: Jaswal

PSYC 4215 Computational Methods in Psychology and Neuroscience

Instructor: Sederberg

PSYC 4250: Brain Systems Involved in Memory

*Note: PSYC 4250 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both. Credits: 3

Prerequisite: PSYC 2200 or PSYC 3240 (PSYC 2210)

Enrollment Restrictions: Student must have taken PSYC 2200 or PSYC 2210 or 3240. Enrollment is not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course and student must be a third or fourth year Psychology, Cognitive Science, or Neuroscience major.

Instructor: Williams

PSYC 4310: Cognitive Aging
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science major.
Description of course contents: In this interdisciplinary seminar, we will discuss recent research on autism at multiple levels (biological, cognitive, social) and from multiple perspectives (autistic individuals, scientists, disability studies scholars, families, schools, community/government organizations).

Instructor: Teles Santos Golino

PSYC 4420: Brain Mapping with MRI
*Note: This course- may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050 and PSYC 4200
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000- or 5000-level PSYC course; Restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psyc, Cognitive Science, Neurosci major; or a Grad A&S student.

Description of course contents: Human neuroimaging technologies and analytics methods enable exploration of the form, function, and connectivity of the living brain. Students will gain familiarity with the origins of brain imaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), be able to discuss the technical foundations of image reconstruction, view and process raw neuroimaging structural and time-series data, and make inferences about the brain in health and in disease.

Instructor: Van Horn

PSYC 4607: Uniquely Human Social Cognition
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment is not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course (except PSYC 4910-4980) per semester and student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science major.
Description of course contents: One fundamental question in psychology is what makes humans such intensely social beings. In this course we will examine the evolutionary, developmental, and brain foundations that underpin our ultrasocial nature.
Instructor: Grossman

PSYC 5326 The Neuroscience of Social Relationships

*Note: PSYC 5326 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2005/3005
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year major/2nd major Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience; or graduate A&S student.
Credits 3

Instructor:: Coan

PSYC 5500-001 Introduction to Network Analysis
*Note: PSYC 5500-001 Intro to Network Analysis may be used to fulfill only one area of the three it is approved for- Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, or Computer Science.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Enrollment Restrictions: Student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science major.
Description of course contents: This course will cover introductory network analysis methods applied to social and psychometric networks. Focus will be on practical data analysis, with assignments being done in the R programming language.
Instructor: Henry

PSYC 5705: Introduction to Bayesian Methods
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Enrollment Restrictions: 4th years: Psychology Majors/Minors and Cognitive Science Majors; GSAS. Due to broad applications of Bayesian statistics, students in (Quantitative) Psychology, Sociology, Political Sciences, or Computer Sciences are equally welcome.
If course is full through SIS: Please use the permission list for the course. Do not email professor.
Description of course contents: This course will provide a practical introduction to classic and modern Bayesian methods, with an emphasis on applications in social sciences. Bayesian estimation for several widely used models in psychology will also be discussed.

Instructor: Tong

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Neuroscience

NESC 4245 Neuroscience Through Nobels
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL 3050 or PSYC 2200
Enrollment Restrictions: Cannot enroll if previously taken BIOL/PSYC/NESC 3559 topic: Neuroscience Through the Nobels
Description of course contents: Will study Nobel prize winning discoveries that shaped our understanding of the nervous system; explore the original experimental basis for these discoveries; and learn about the Nobel laureates. This course will enable students to acquire a deeper understanding of fundamental principles in Neuroscience, to familiarize with various research techniques, and to develop a sense of history of Neuroscience research.
Instructor: Cang

NESC 4265: Developmental Neurobiology
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Enrollment Restrictions: Student must have taken BIOL 3050 or PSYC 2200. Enrollment is not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course per semester and student must be a third or fourth year Psychology, Cognitive Science, or Neuroscience major.
Description of course contents: The diverse functions of the nervous system depend on precise wiring of connections between neurons. This course covers cellular and molecular processes of how neuronal connections are established during development. Diseases which result from failing to establish the circuitry will also be discussed. This course will introduce research methods and technology, and encourage students to develop logical rationale of contemporary research.

Instructor: Liu

PSYC 3160: Cognitive Neuroscience
*Note: PSYC 3160 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Instructor: Long

Instructor: Clabough

PSYC 3160: Cognitive Neuroscience Please note ew Number
*Note: PSYC 2160 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Instructor: Long

PSYC 3210: Psychobiology Laboratory

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or 4200 or BIOL 3050; PSYC 3005 recommended

Enrollment Restrictions: Must have completed PSYC 2200, 4200, or BIOL 3050. If this course is full through SIS: Please use the online wait list. Do not email professor.

Instructor: Clabough/Morris

PSYC 3260: Hidden Figures: Brain Science through Diversity

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: This course will introduce students to basic concepts in neurobiology/neuroscience/brain science discoveries while emphasizing research by women and URMs in science.

Instructor: Ribic

PSYC 4200: Neural Mechanisms of Behavior

* Note: PSYC 4200 OR BIOL 3050 credits may count for the major, but not both.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or 2210

Enrollment Restrictions: Student must have taken PSYC 2200 or PSYC 2210. Enrollment is not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course per semester and student must be a third or fourth year Psychology, Cognitive Science, or Neuroscience major.

Description of course contents: Introduces basic concepts in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry needed for an understanding of brain and behavior. PSYC 3210 is recommended.

Instructor: Hill

PSYC 4215 Computational Methods in Psychology and Neuroscience

Instructor: Sederberg

PSYC 4250: Brain Systems Involved in Memory

*Note: PSYC 4250 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both. Credits: 3

Prerequisite: PSYC 2200 or PSYC 3240 (PSYC 2210)

Instructor: Williams

PSYC 4420: Brain Mapping with MRI
*Note: This course- may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Description of course contents: Human neuroimaging technologies and analytics methods enable exploration of the form, function, and connectivity of the living brain. Students will gain familiarity with the origins of brain imaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), be able to discuss the technical foundations of image reconstruction, view and process raw neuroimaging structural and time-series data, and make inferences about the brain in health and in disease.

Instructor: Van Horn

PSYC 5280: Neuropsychopharmacology
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 4200 or BIOL 3050
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC or COGS or Neurosci majors
Description of course contents: Combines the study of the synaptic circuits function for producing measurable behaviors and the principles of pharmacology. Focus on basic concepts in behavior analysis, pharmacology, and neuropharmacology, and reviews research techniques for assessing the effects of drugs on the behavior of nonhumans and humans.
Instructor: Erisir

PSYC 5326 The Neuroscience of Social Relationships

*Note: PSYC 5326 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2005/3005
Enrollment Restrictions: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year major/2nd major Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience; or graduate A&S student.
Credits 3

Instructor:: Coan

Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Enrollment Restrictions: Student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science major.
Description of course contents:

BIOL 3050: Introduction to Neurobiology

* Note: BIOL 3050 OR PSYC 4200 credits may count for the major, but not both.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Must have completed BIOL 2100 (formerly BIOL 2010) or BME 2104 and BIOL 2200 (formerly BIOL 2020) or BIOL 2040

Instructors: Condron

BIOL 4270: Animal Behavior Laboratory

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: BIOL 3250

Instructor: Kawasaki

Instructor: Hirsh

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Linguistics

ANTH 2400: Language and Culture

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Dobrin

ANTH 2430: Languages of the World

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Staff

ANTH 2541: Topics in Linguistics: Technology, Language, & Society

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: This course provides a linguistic anthropological perspective on technology and communication. Beginning with the development of the written word and concluding with smart phones and social media, the course will explore the use of various communication technologies in both the United States and around the world in order to better understand the role that language and technology play in politics, power, identity, and community.

Instructor: Morgenstern

ANTH 2541: Topics in Linguistics: French Creole Language Structures

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents:This course examines the similarities and differences in phonology, morphology, and syntax among those creole languages whose primary lexicon is derived from French. We also consider broader linguistic and anthropological issues concerning creoles. For example, while some have claimed that creoles exist as a typologically distinct class of languages, others have argued that their only commonality is their socio-histories. Familiarity with French, though not required, will be useful. This course fulfills the Structure requirement for Linguistics majors and counts as a Linguistics requirement for Cognitive Science majors.

Instructor: Wendte

ANTH 3541: Topics in Linguistics: Language Change

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: Along the span of history and across the globe, the one constant of human language is change. This course introduces the study and analysis of language change over time in a variety of domains and contexts. Students will learn how to identify and decode processes and results of historical language change and apply these skills to analyze data bearing on relationships and contacts between different languages and their speakers. This course fulfills the Historical requirement for Linguistics majors and counts as a Linguistics requirement for Cognitive Science majors.

Instructor: Wendte

ANTH 5470: Language and Identity
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Description of course contents: In anthropology, where identity has become a central concern, language is seen as an important site for the construction and negotiation of social identities. In linguistics, reference to categories of social identity helps to explain language structure and change. This seminar explores the history of identity within linguistics research, framing the concept through the notion of discourse.
Instructor: Wendte

ASL 3450-001: Comparative Linguistics: ASL and English

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Jennings-Arey

EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Loncke

FREN 3030: Phonetics

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Saunders

LING 3400: Structure of English

(obligatory 1 credit discussion)

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Crabtree

LNGS 3250: Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Analysis

(optional 1 credit discussion section)

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Elson

SPAN 3000: Spanish Phonetics

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 2020

Instructor: Staff

SPAN 4202: Hispanic Sociolinguistics

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Instructor Permission SPAN 3010 (or equivalent) and SPAN 3000; or SPAN 3010 (or equivalent) and 3200

Description of course contents: This course examines the Spanish language within its social context by exploring the following topics: language versus dialect; the standard language; linguistic variation and its main variables: geography, gender, age, etc.; language variation and language change; language contact and bilingualism; Spanish in the US; code switching. Course conducted in Spanish.

Instructor: Velázquez-Mendoza

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Philosophy

PHIL2500 (Section 100): Philosophy of Health and Healthcare

Instructor: Barnes

PHIL 3010: Darwin and Philosophy

same person throughout these stages of your life?
Instructor: Eaker

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Computer Science

The most common introductory-level Computer Science courses for Cognitive Science majors are:

CS 11XX series: Introduction to Programming

CS 2110:

CS 2102: Discrete Mathematics I

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Elective Credit Only

PSYC 4500 Practical Longitudinal Sustainability Studies
Credits: 3 (NOTE: this course will not fulfill COGS area or upper level course requirement)
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment is not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course per semester and student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science major.
Description of course contents: Longitudinal data analytical techniques will be introduced to investigate sustainability issues.

Instructor: Tong

BIOL 4360: Cytokine Signaling and Neural Development

Credits: 1 (NOTES: this course will not fulfill COGS area or upper level course requirement and is only one credit hour)

Requisites: Instructor Permission

Description of course contents: This is a journal club format seminar where we perform an in depth analysis of the papers listed below. One paper will be covered per week with a review article also assigned for background. There are no presenters; rather we will have discussion leaders. All participants should be prepared to present any of the panels in the week's paper.

Instructor: Deppmann

Summer 2021

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Psychology

PSYC 2005: Research Methods & Data Analysis I (Session 3)
Credits: 3

Instructor: Chandra Mason

PSYC 2300: Introduction to Perception (Session 1)
Credits: 3

Instructor: Elizabeth Blair Gross

PSYC 3006: Research Methods & Data Analysis II (Session 1)
Credits: 3

Instructor: Joseph Meyer & Karen Schmidt

PSYC 3100- Learning and the Neuroscience of Behavior (Session 1)

*Note: PSYC 3100 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3

Instructor: Cedric L. Williams

PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Session 2 & 3)
*Note: PSYC 4110 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Linguistics area requirement, but not both. Either PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Loncke) or EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication (Loncke) may be taken for credit, but not both.
Credits: 3
Instructor: Filip T. Loncke

PSYC 4500- 002 Psychology of Music (Session 1)

Credits: 3

Instructor: Staff

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Neuroscience

PSYC 2200 : Neural Basis of Behavior (Session 2 & 3) ONLINE ASYNCH
Credits: 3

Instructor: Erin Clabough

PSYC 3100- Learning and the Neuroscience of Behavior (Session 1 & 2)

*Note: PSYC 3100 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3

Instructor: Cedric L. Williams

PSYC 3210: Psychobiology Lab (Session 1)
Credits: 3

Instructor: Erin Clabough

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Linguistics

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Philosophy

PHIL 1510 (Section 6) : Philosophy of Mental Health (Session 1)
Credits: 3

Instructor: Oakley

PHIL 1510 (Section 6) : Science Fiction and Philosophy (Session 3)
Credits: 3

Instructor: Cetic

ANTH 2589/PHIL 2500 The Past, Present, and Future of Humankind

Credits: 3

Instructor: Eaker, Most

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Computer Science

CS 1110 Introduction to Programming (Session I)

Credits: 3

Instructor: Raymond Petit

CS 2102 Software Development Methods (Session 3)

Prerequisite: CS 1110, 1111, 1112, or 1120 with grade of C- or above

Credits: 3

Instructor: Elizabeth Orrico

CS 2110 Software Development Methods (Session 2)

Prerequisite: CS 1110, 1111, 1112, or 1120 with grade of C- or above

Credits: 3

Instructor: Paul McBurney

CS 3102 Theory of Computation (Session I)

Prerequisite: CS 2102 and 2110 both with grades of C- or above

Credits: 3

Instructor: Nathan Brunelle

CS 3205 HCI in Software Development (Session I)

Prerequisite: CS 2110

Credits: 3

Instructor: Panagiotis Apostolellis

CS 3710 Intro to Cybersecurity (Session I)

Prerequisite: CS 2110

Credits: 3

Instructor: Aaron Bloomfield

(CS 4102, 4640, 4720, and 4750 will all count as UL Computer Science Concentration Courses)

Spring 2021

Cognitive Psychology

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Cognitive Psychology

EDLF 5260: Cognitive Psychology and Education

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Jirout

EDLF 5270 Adult Development and Aging

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment restrictions: None

Instructor: Whaley

PSYC 2005-1 & 2: Research Methods & Data Analysis I
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Enrollment restrictions: None
Description of course contents: Introduces research methods in psychology, integrating statistical analysis.
Instructor: Smyth (Section 1) Morris (Section 2)

PSYC 2150: Introduction to Cognition

PSYC 3310: R Applications in Psychology

PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Fulfills Second Writing Requirement in CAS)
*Note: PSYC 4110 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Linguistics area requirement, but not both. Either PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Loncke) or EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication (Loncke) may be taken for credit, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course and 4th year Psychology or Cognitive Science major/minor

Instructor: Loncke

PSYC 4250: Brain Systems Involved in Memory

*Note: PSYC 4250 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both. Credits: 3

Prerequisite: PSYC 2200 or PSYC 3240 (PSYC 2210)

Instructor: Williams

PSYC 4290: Memory Distortions

*Note: PSYC 4290 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3

Although memory is generally accurate, some illusions and distortions in remembering are unavoidable. We will review both neuroscience and cognitive research on a variety of different memory problems, ranging from relatively benign tip-of-the-tongue experiences to untrustworthy eye-witness testimony. Our ultimate goal will be to understand the neural basis and cognitive processes that contribute to these constructive memory phenomena.

PSYC 4500-Section 2: The Neurodegenerative Experience
*Note: PSYC 4500-Section 2 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000- or 5000-level PSYC course; Restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psyc, Cognitive Science, Neurosci major; or a Grad A&S student.

Description of course contents: This course will explore the physiological and psychological components of neurodegenerative disorders, focusing on changes in adult cognition and delving into how a patient might experience the disease process.

Instructor: Clabough

PSYC 4500- Section 6 Cognitive Aging

Description of course contents: This course aims to discuss the state-of-the-art in the large field of cognitive aging and the main life span predictors that lead to healthy aging.

Instructor: Teles Santos Golino

PSYC 4500-Section 7: Psychology of Emotion
*Note: PSYC 4500-Section 7 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites:None

Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000- or 5000-level PSYC course; Restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psyc, Cognitive Science, Neurosci major; or a Grad A&S student.

Description of course contents: This course will survey contemporary research and theory in affective science. We will examine the origins, functions, and behavioral and social consequences of emotions, paying particular attention to cross-cultural and cross-species evidence.

Instructor: Wood

PSYC 5323 R in Psychology
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000- or 5000-level PSYC course; Restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psyc, Cognitive Science, Neurosci major; or a Grad A&S student.

Instructor: Meyer

PSYC 5332 Quantified Cognition
*Note: PSYC 5332 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: 4th years: Psychology Majors/Minors and Cognitive Science Majors; Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course or GSAS
Description of course contents: The class will provide the foundation necessary to start thinking mechanistically about how neural function gives rise to cognition. Although the focus will be on the problems in psychology and neuroscience, the material will have the potential for broad application and will cover topics including computational modeling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
Instructor: Sederberg

PSYC 5720: Fundamentals of Item Response Theory
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Undergraduates must have taken PSYC 2005 or 3005 and 3006 OR 4005 and 4006
Enrollment Restrictions: Instructor Permission only. Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course

Prerequisite: 4th year Psychology major or minor or 4th year in Cognitive Science or Graduate student. Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course

Prerequisite: Undergraduates must have taken PSYC 2005 or 3005 and 3006 OR 4005 and 4006

Instructor: Schmidt

Neuroscience

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Neuroscience

NESC 4245 Neuroscience Through the Nobels
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL 3050 or PSYC 2200
Enrollment Restrictions: Cannot enroll if previously taken BIOL/PSYC/NESC 3559 topic: Neuroscience Through the Nobels
Description of course contents: Will study Nobel prize winning discoveries that shaped our understanding of the nervous system; explore the original experimental basis for these discoveries; and learn about the Nobel laureates. This course will enable students to acquire a deeper understanding of fundamental principles in Neuroscience, to familiarize with various research techniques, and to develop a sense of history of Neuroscience research.
Instructor: Cang

PSYC 2200: A Survey of the Neural Basis of Behavior

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment Restrictions: Not allowed if BIOL 3050 has been taken or are currently enrolled

Instructor: Clabough

PSYC 3500-001: Hidden Figures: Brain Science through Diversity

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: This course will introduce students to basic concepts in neurobiology/neuroscience/brain science discoveries while emphasizing research by women and URMs in science.

Instructor: Ribic

PSYC 4250: Brain Systems Involved in Memory

*Note: PSYC 4250 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both. Credits: 3

Prerequisite: PSYC 2200 or PSYC 3240 (PSYC 2210)

Instructor: Williams

PSYC 4290: Memory Distortions

*Note: PSYC 4290 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4500-Section 2: The Neurodegenerative Experience
*Note: PSYC 4500-Section 2 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Instructor: Clabough

PSYC 4500-Section 7: Psychology of Emotion
*Note: PSYC 4500-Section 7 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000- or 5000-level PSYC course; Restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psyc, Cognitive Science, Neurosci major; or a Grad A&S student.

Instructor: Wood

PSYC 5265: Functional Neuroanatomy

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 4200 or BIOL 3170
Enrollment Restrictions: 3rd or 4th year Psychology/Cognitive Science/Neuroscience and GSAS majors. Cannot be enrolled in another Psyc 4000+ course.
Description of course contents: An overview of the structure of the vertebrate nervous system with an emphasis on the mammalian brain.
Instructors: Williams/Erisir

PSYC 5332 Quantified Cognition
*Note: PSYC 5332 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: 4th years: Psychology Majors/Minors and Cognitive Science Majors; Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course or GSAS
Description of course contents: The class will provide the foundation necessary to start thinking mechanistically about how neural function gives rise to cognition. Although the focus will be on the problems in psychology and neuroscience, the material will have the potential for broad application and will cover topics including computational modeling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
Instructor: Sederberg

PSYC 5500-1 Applications of Brain Mapping With MRI

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 (or BIOL 3050) or PSYC 2160 required. PSYC 4200 or PSYC 5265 recommended. Some background in coding using Matlab, R or Python is recommended.

Enrollment Requirements: Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC majors or COG SCI majors or Neurosci majors. Other majors with Instructor's Permission.

Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course or GSAS
Description of course contents: Human neuroimaging technologies and analytics methods enable exploration of the form, function, and connectivity of the living brain. Students will gain familiarity with the origins of brain imaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), be able to discuss the technical foundations of image reconstruction, view and process raw neuroimaging structural and time-series data, and make inferences about the brain in health and in disease.
Instructor: Van Horn

BIOL 4280: Genetic Basis of Behavior
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 and 3010 required
Description of course contents: This course studies behavior paradigms in model animals and the modern genetic tools used study and dissect the circuits underlying them. Can an animal as simple as a fly or mouse learn simple tasks, show appetitive behaviors and cravings, and inform studies of human addiction? Readings from classic and current literature will show the historical context of this field and develop critical reading skills.

Instructor: Hirsh

BIOL 4310: Sensory Neurobiology
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050 (3170)
Description of course contents: This two-lectures-per-week course explores the basic principles of sensory neurobiology. The course consists of four modules. Each module represents one of the senses and consists of an introductory lecture, one or several lectures that will delve into the details of that sense, a current topic lecture on some recent finding, and finally, a guest lecture from a UVa researcher.
Instructor: Provencio

Linguistics

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Linguistics

ANTH 2400 Language and Culture

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Sicoli

ANTH 2430: Languages of the World

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: one year of a foreign language or permission of instructor.

Instructor: Mirzayan

ANTH 2541: Language Death and Revitalization

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Wendte

ANTH 3541-001 Topics in Linguistics: Language Change

Credits: 3
Description of course contents: Along the span of history and across the globe, the one constant of human language is change. This course introduces the study and analysis of language change over time in a variety of domains and contexts. Students will learn how to identify and decode processes and results of historical language change and apply these skills to analyze data bearing on relationships and contacts between different languages and their speakers. This course fulfills the Historical requirement for Linguistics majors and counts as a Linguistics Upper Level requirement for Cognitive Science majors.

Instructor: Staff

ANTH 3559-001 New Course in Linguistics: Creoles & Creolization

Instructor: Staff

EDHS 4030: Speech and Hearing Science

Instructor: Loncke/Bull

FREN 3030: Phonetics

Credits: 3
Description of course contents: FREN 3030 is an introductory course in French phonetics. It provides basic concepts in articulatory phonetics and phonological theory, and offers students techniques for improving their own pronunciation. The course will cover the physical characteristics of individual French sounds; the relationship between these sounds and their written representation (orthography); the rules governing the pronunciation of "standard FREN French"; the most salient phonological features of selected French varieties; phonetic differences between French and English sounds; and to some extent, ‘la musique du français’, i.e., prosodic phenomena (le rythme, l’accent, l’intonation, la syllabation). Practical exercises in 'ear-training' (the perception of sounds) and 'phonetic transcription' (using IPA) are also essential components of this dynamic course. Prerequisite: FREN 2020 (or equivalent). Course taught in French.

Instructor: Saunders

LING 4559-001 New Course in Linguistics: Linguistic Typology

Credits: 3
Description of course contents: In Linguistic Typology we explore structures in languages by analyzing both differences and similarities in language systems across the world. This entails exploration of the methods and results of previous typological research, analysis of linguistic data in terms of these typological findings, and critical evaluation of some of the theoretical assumptions inherent to the methods and interpretation of linguistic typological data. This course fulfills the Theory requirement for Linguistics majors and counts as a Linguistics Upper Level requirement for Cognitive Science majors.

Instructor: Mirzayan

LNGS 5000 Linguistic Principles in Language Pedagogy

Credits: 3
Description of course contents: Provides prospective language teachers with background in descriptive and theoretical linguistics, thus helping them to make informed pedagogical decisions, set realistic pedagogical goals, and read scholarship in pedagogy of the type that appears in relevant scholarly journals (e.g. The Modern Language Journal). Considers trends in Second Language Acquisition and the relevance thereto of Applied Linguistics in recent years. majors.

Instructor: Elson

PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Fulfills Second Writing Requirement in CAS)
*Note: PSYC 4110 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Linguistics area requirement, but not both. Either PSYC 4110: Psycholinguistics (Loncke) or EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication (Loncke) may be taken for credit, but not both.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course and 4th year Psychology or Cognitive Science major/minor

Instructor: Loncke

RUSS 3040 Applied Russian Phonetics

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: RUSS 1020

Description of course contents: Examines the sound system of the Russian language with special attention to palatalization, vowel reduction, sounds in combination, and the relationship of sound to spelling.

Instructor: Elson

SPAN 3000: Spanish Phonetics

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Velazquez Mendoza

SPAN 4530 Special Topics: Second Language Acquisition (Velazquez Mendoza)

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement; instructor permission.

Description of course contents: How do people learn a second language (L2)? How are first language acquisition and second language acquisition different? Why are some learners more successful than others in learning a second language? How do we measure “success” in second language acquisition? How do we define “competence”? I invite you to join me in the exploration of these and other exciting questions. Together we will discover the processes and mechanisms that drive language acquisition by studying how three different areas – linguistics, psychology, and sociocultural perspectives – have contributed to the major theories and ideas informing the field of Second Language Acquisition. Prerequisites: SPAN 3010 and: SPAN 3000 or SPAN 3200 or another course in Linguistics.

Instructor: Velazquez Mendoza

Philosophy

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Philosophy

PHIL 1510: Introductory Seminar—The Ethics of Computing (Section 1 or 2)
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: Developments in computing technology have had a tremendous impact on our lives. Changes have been swift and the human capacity to deal with them is limited. In this course we will examine some of these changes and carefully consider their social and ethical implications, from the political and global to the personal and emotional. We’ll end by thinking about computing changes that lie ahead – including the distant future.

Instructor: Fung

PHIL 2330: Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence
Credits: 3
Description of course contents: Do computers think? Can a persuasive case be made for the claim that the human mind is essentially a sophisticated computing device? These and related questions will be examined through readings in computer science, the philosophy of mind, logic, and linguistics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Instructor: Humphreys

PHIL 2420: Introduction to Symbolic Logic
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: A basic introduction to the concepts and techniques of modern formal logic. The aim of this course is to give the student a working knowledge of both sentential and quantifier logic. Students will learn how to translate claims and arguments from English into a formal system, and to test arguments for validity. Discussion Required.
Instructor: Cameron

PHIL 2500-001: Survey: Slurs, Bad Words, and Unruly Language
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: Will be updated

Instructor: Fox

PHIL 2500-200: Survey: Consciousness
Credits: 3

Description of course contents: This course focuses on the place of consciousness in nature. Part 1 surveys theories of consciousness in cognitive science. Part 2 turns to the “hard problem” of consciousness: is it compatible with a scientific worldview? Part 3 examines types of experience that most theorists neglect––dreaming, mind-wandering, and dreamless sleep––that contain lessons about the methods of consciousness research and the conscious sense of self.

Instructor: Irving

PHIL 2640: Rational Choice and Happiness
Credits: 3

Instructor: Barnes

PHIL 3500-001: Seminar Philosophy of Memory
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: We will explore the nature and philosophical import of memory. Part 1: What is Memory examines experiential and causal theories of memory and asks whether memory extends past our bodies and is distinct from imagination. Part 2: Memory and Knowledge asks whether we should dogmatically accept our memories as true, even if they are reconstructive. Part 3: Memory and Personhood asks whether memory is required to remain the same person over time. Instructor: Irving

PHIL 3500-002: Seminar Animals and Ethics
Credits: 3
Description of course contents: An introduction to systems of non-classical logic, including both extensions and revisions to classical logic. We will look at logical systems that extend classical logic to deal with the phenomena of possibility and time. We will look at logics that revise classical logic to allow for sentences which are neither true nor false, or sentences which can be both. We will show how these departures from classical logic can shed light on various philosophical questions.

Instructor: Greenway

Computer Science

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Computer Science

Most Computer Science courses are acceptable for the COGS major except CS 1010, CS 1020, and CS 1501 Special Topics courses. CS 1501 courses are CR/NC grading which within the College of Arts and Sciences means they cannot be used to fulfill major credit hours. Note: ECE 2066: Science of Information will count for major credit but does not fulfill the CS area requirement.

The most common introductory-level Computer Science courses for Cognitive Science majors are:

CS 1110: Introduction to Programming

CS 2102: Discrete Mathematics I

Electives

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Elective Credit Only

KINE 3660: Neuroscience of Exercise

Instructor: Resch

January 2021

Cognitive Psychology

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Cognitive Psychology

PSYC 2559 An Introduction to Cognition and Cognitive Biases
Credits: 3

Faculty: Hudson Golino, Mariana Teles Santos Golino

During the COVID-19 pandemic you might have experienced the phenomenon of the random and imperceptible thoughts that quickly popped up in your mind, sometimes leaving a trail of emotional and behavioral consequences. How the mind works is a question that have been contemplated for centuries but only in the past 60 years has been scientifically studied by cognitive psychologists. Knowing how our mental process are structured and how they function is a key to achieve higher levels of awareness and control over our mind and behavior. However, as we can see during the pandemic, we don’t operate rationally in the world all the time. There are a number of situations where we are actually behaving without the use or supervision of conscious logical processes. Throughout this course, we’ll be learning about the structure and functioning of mental processes, as well as when and why we have difficulty making decisions and thinking under uncertainty. The goal is to use our knowledge of cognitive psychology and decision making under uncertainty to learn about how humans think, and when we fail to think clearly. We believe that knowing how mental processes and cognitive biases work can help us understand our current global situation.

PSYC 3559 Section 200: How to Build A Healthy Human Brain (Can be taken for Psychology or Neuroscience Area but not both) Be sure and enroll in Section 200
Credits: 3

Faculty: Jessica Connelly and James Morris

*Note: How to Build A Healthy Human Brain may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

The social, mental, and physical well-being of humans is dependent upon slow maturation of a number of critical biological systems over the course of the lifespan. Biological and environmental influences on the maturation of these systems are vast and varied. Though unique, contributions of developmental environment and biological predisposition are often considered as independent predictors but modern science has demonstrated time and again that the two are richly intertwined. This Signature J-Term survey course examines how early life experience shapes the function of our genome, impacts the development of brain systems involved in the complexities of human life, and sets the stage for our abilities to forge new social bonds that promote healthy lives and rewarding personal experiences. Through lectures from thought experts across several fields of science, we will discuss how modern society has introduced many challenges to these developmental experiences including social, environmental and educational inequality, which are a direct threat to these natural human processes. The Professors Connelly and Morris are UVA Psychology professors and experts in the field of translational neuroscience. Both have served as College Fellows, working with many of the best thought leaders and course design experts on grounds. With extensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities of educating first year scholars, we present a course opportunity for all who wish to better understand how to build a healthy human.

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Neuroscience

PSYC 3559 Section 200: How to Build A Healthy Human Brain (Can be taken for Psychology or Neuroscience Area but not both) Be sure and enroll in Section 200 and add a discussion section as well or you cannot enroll
Credits: 3

Faculty: Jessica Connelly and James Morris

*Note: How to Build A Healthy Human Brain may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

of translational neuroscience. Both have served as College Fellows, working with many of the best thought leaders and course design experts on grounds. With extensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities of educating first year scholars, we present a course opportunity for all who wish to better understand how to build a healthy human.

PSYC 3210-001: Psychobiology Laboratory
Credits: 3

Faculty: Erin Clabough

Modern behavioral neuroscience is a vibrant, multidisciplinary field that makes uses of a wide range of methods for measuring, analyzing, and predicting how brains work to process information and generate complex behaviors. The overall goal of this course is to understand basic ways that psychologists can study the brain in a laboratory setting. To gain a deeper insight into psychological foundations, we will survey concepts, literature, and methods from several subfields of neuroscience. This hands-on, writing intensive course develops skills necessary for the study of neural bases of behavior, such as brain dissection, histology, mapping of neural pathways, behavioral analysis, and genetic analyses. We will step into the shoes of different types of biopsychologists in each of our modules. The goal is to teach you to think like a scientist, so be prepared for hands-on activities, discussion, and learning by doing.healthy human.healthy human.

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Philosophy

ANTH 2559-100/PHIL 2500-100 The Past, Present, and Future of Humankind

Faculty: Erin Eaker and Rachel Most (Philosophy and Anthropology)

What does it mean, in the present day, to be a human being? Where did we come from? Where are we going? Drawing from the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and philosophy, we will explore the deep history of how we—the species Homo sapiens—evolved. We will focus on the evolution of those traits that seem so distinctively human, such as language, abstract thought, agriculture, art, mythmaking, and morality. We will study what makes civilizations rise and fall, and we will take stock of where we are as a species at the present moment. Will the traits that made us such a successful species help us rise to the challenges of the future? Or are we doomed by our very nature? In addition to synchronous talks by Most, Eaker, and guest lecturers (e.g., Roy Scranton, James Scott, Cullen Murphy), students will actively engage with the material through book club discussions of the readings, small group chat-enabled video viewings, interactive games that model civilization building and collapse, and frequent writing exercises to synthesize what they have learned.

PHIL 2500-002 Slurs

Faculty: Corin Fox

This course will study the philosophy of language with a heavy emphasis on pragmatics, and the sub-topic of slurs and derogation. I envision it covering some standard-fare questions about meaning and reference, and a bit on names and descriptions. Yet I want to focus it more on basic distinctions between ‘semantics’ and ‘pragmatics’, and related concepts like speech acts, implicature, presupposition, context-sensitivity, and ambiguity. Additionally, I am eager to accent the ‘human’ elements, including the phenomenology of slur use for speaker and hearer, as well as questions about linguistic appropriation, reclaiming, and in/out group differences in language norms.

Fall 2020

Cognitive Psychology

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Cognitive Psychology

EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

multimodality, (7) bilingualism and variation, (8) interaction between language and cognition (9) a psycholinguistic approach to breakdown (i.e., pathology).

Instructor: Loncke

PSYC 2005-1 & 2: Research Methods & Data Analysis I
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Enrollment restrictions: None
Description of course contents: Introduces research methods in psychology, integrating statistical analysis.
Instructor: Smyth (Section 1) Morris (Section 2)

PSYC 2150: Introduction to Cognition

PSYC 2160: Cognitive Neuroscience
*Note: PSYC 2160 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Instructor: Long

PSYC 3006: Research Methods & Data Analysis II
Credits: 4 (Required lab)
Prerequisites: PSYC 2005 or 3005 with a grade of C or higher

Instructor: Williams

PSYC 3310: R Applications in Psychology

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

PSYC 4155: Autism: From Neurons to Neighborhoods
Credits: 3

Instructor: Jaswal

PSYC 4500 (Section 1) Disease, Health, and the Psyche
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment is not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course per semester and student must be a 3rd or 4th Psychology major or Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science major.
Description of course contents: Covers topics from health psychology, psychoneuroimmunology, and behavioral medicine in order to acquire a basic understanding of physical health and the immune system and how they relate to the nervous system and various psychological processes.

Instructor: Horn

PSYC 4500 (Section 3) Computational Methods in Psychology and Neuroscience

Instructor: Sederberg

PSYC 4500 (Section 6): Brain Mapping with MRI
*Note: This course- may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Description of course contents: Human neuroimaging technologies and analytics methods enable exploration of the form, function, and connectivity of the living brain. Students will gain familiarity with the origins of brain imaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), be able to discuss the technical foundations of image reconstruction, view and process raw neuroimaging structural and time-series data, and make inferences about the brain in health and in disease.
Instructor: Van Horn

Instructor: Tong

PSYC 5710: Machine Learning and Data Mining
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Restrictions: 4th years: Psychology Majors/Minors and Cognitive Science Majors; Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course or GSAS
Description of course contents: While most psychological studies ask "is something different between groups?", in this course we will introduce quantitative methods to answer the question "what is different between groups?", ie., we ask which part (or combination) of our data maximizes the chances to distinguish between given groups.
Instructor: Golino

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Neuroscience

NESC 4265: Developmental Neurobiology

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050

Enrollment Restrictions: Must have completed PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050. If this course is full through SIS: Please use the online wait list. Do not email professor.

Description of course contents: The diverse functions of the nervous system depend on precise wiring of connections between neurons. This course will cover cellular and molecular processes of how neuronal connections are established during development, especially the role of activity- and experience-dependent plasticity in postnatal development. Diseases, which result from failing to establish the circuitry in early development, will also be discussed. This course will introduce research methods and technology, and encourage students to develop skills to appreciate historical context and logical rationale of contemporary research.

Instructor: Liu

PSYC 2160: Cognitive Neuroscience
*Note: PSYC 2160 may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Instructor: Long

Instructor: Clabough

Instructor: Williams

PSYC 3210: Psychobiology Laboratory

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or 4200 or BIOL 3050; PSYC 3005 recommended

Enrollment Restrictions: Must have completed PSYC 2200, 4200, or BIOL 3050. If this course is full through SIS: Please use the online wait list. Do not email professor.

Instructor: Clabough/Morris

PSYC 4200: Neural Mechanisms of Behavior

Credits: 4

Prerequisites: PSYC 2200 or 2210

Description of course contents: Introduces basic concepts in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry needed for an understanding of brain and behavior. PSYC 3210 is recommended.

Instructor: Ribic

PSYC 4500 (Section 3) Computational Methods in Psychology and Neuroscience

Instructor: Sederberg

PSYC 4500 (Section 6): Brain Mapping with MRI
*Note: This course- may be used to fulfill either the Cognitive Psychology or the Neuroscience area requirement, but not both.

Description of course contents: Human neuroimaging technologies and analytics methods enable exploration of the form, function, and connectivity of the living brain. Students will gain familiarity with the origins of brain imaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), be able to discuss the technical foundations of image reconstruction, view and process raw neuroimaging structural and time-series data, and make inferences about the brain in health and in disease.

Instructor: Van Horn

BIOL 3050: Introduction to Neurobiology

* Note: BIOL 3050 OR PSYC 4200 credits may count for the major, but not both.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Must have completed BIOL 2100 (formerly BIOL 2010) or BME 2104 and BIOL 2200 (formerly BIOL 2020) or BIOL 2040

Instructors: Condron

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Linguistics

ANTH 2400: Language and Culture

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: East

ANTH 2430: Languages of the World

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Mirzayan

ANTH 3480: Language and Prehistory

Credits: 3

Instructor: Danziger

ANTH 4420: Theories of Languages
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Description of course contents: Survey of modern schools of linguistics, both American and European, discussing each approach in terms of historical and intellectual context, analytical goals, assumptions about the nature of language, and relation between theory and methodology
Instructor: Sicoli

ANTH 5475: Multimodal Interaction
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: LNGS 3250 or another Linguistics course
Description of course contents: Students build knowledge and practice of analysis of peoples' joint-engagement in embodied interactions. How does action weave together multiple sensory modalities into semiotic webs linking interactions with more durative institutions of social life? Course includes workshops on video recording, and the transcription and coding of verbal and non-verbal actions. Prior coursework in Linguistics, Anthropology or instructor permission recommended. Instructor: Sicoli

ASL 3450-001: Comparative Linguistics: ASL and English

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Jennings-Arey

CLAS 3350 Language and Literature of the Early Celts

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: This introduction to the Celtic inhabitants of Gaul and Britain unites two approaches, one literary, one linguistic. First, we will compare descriptions of the Celts found in Greek and Latin authors with readings of Celtic literature in translation, notably Ireland's great prose epic, the Táin Bó Cúailnge. Second, we will explore how the Celtic languages work, focusing on the basics of Old Irish as well as touching on Middle Welsh and Gaulish.

Instructor: Staff

EDHS 4300: Psycholinguistics and Communication

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Loncke

FREN 3030: Phonetics

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Saunders

LING 3400: Structure of English

(obligatory 1 credit discussion)

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Crabtree

LING 3559: Semantics and Pragmatics

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: This course looks closely and critically at theories that ask what kinds of categories words and constructions denote (semantics) and theories that ask how linguistic form is related to conversational context (pragmatics). Using elicited data and contextual/natural phrases and sentences, we will attempt to generalize about the cues and information that humans use to construct meaning as they speak. Course fulfills the Theory requirement for Linguistics.

Instructor: Mirzayan

LING 5409: Acoustic Phonetics

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Description of course contents: To acquire a good understanding of speech sounds, we must understand how speech sounds are produced, the physical nature of the sounds, and how the ear and brain work to recognize sounds as carriers of meaning distinguishing units in speech. In this course we investigate these processes by focusing on three broad questions: (1) How do we produce speech in communication? (2) How do we perceive speech in communication? and (3) How does the nature of these processes influence the sound patterns of languages in the world? In the process of doing so will also be learning experimental and analytical techniques that enable us to carefully investigate these (and other related) questions.

Instructor: Mirzayan

LNGS 3250: Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Analysis

(optional 1 credit discussion section)

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

Instructor: Elson

RUSS 5030: Advanced Russian I

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: RUSS 2010, 2020, and Instructor Consent

Description of course contents: A thorough review of Russian grammar.

Instructor: Elson

SPAN 4202: Hispanic Sociolinguistics

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Instructor Permission SPAN 3010 (or equivalent) and SPAN 3000; or SPAN 3010 (or equivalent) and 3200

Instructor: Velázquez-Mendoza

SPAN 4210: History of the Spanish Language II

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 3000 or 3200

Description of course contents: The course examines the development of the Spanish language through texts produced from the Middle Ages to the present day. The main goal will be the interpretation of individual texts as a source of linguistic data and the analysis of language in its cultural, social and historical context. Including texts from Latin American and Spain, the commentary will cover the analysis of phonological, grammatical and lexical aspects. Prerequisites: SPAN 3000 or SPAN 3200

Instructor: Velázquez-Mendoza

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Philosophy

PHIL 1510: Ethics of Computing Technologies
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: Developments in computing technology have had a tremendous impact on our lives. Changes have been swift and the human capacity to deal with them is limited. In this course we will examine some of these changes and carefully consider their social and ethical implications, from the political and global to the personal and emotional. We’ll end by thinking about computing changes that lie ahead – including the distant future.
Instructor: Staff

PHIL 2500: Minds, Machines, and Persons
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Description of course contents: This course surveys foundational issues in the philosophy of cognitive science and mind. Part 1 addresses foundational questions about cognition. Is the mind a brain? A computer? Does the mind extend into the body and environment? What is a mental representation? Part 2 turns to the so-called “Hard Problem” of consciousness: can a physicalist theory of mind explain conscious experience? Part 3 concludes with the problem of personal identify over time. Once you were a kid, now you are an adult, and one day you'll grow old. What (if anything) makes you the same person throughout these stages of your life?
Instructor: Irving

PHIL 3500-001: Animals and Ethics
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
This course will examine the moral status of non-human animals and what the major ethical theories imply for our treatment of animals, including for the purposes of scientific research and food. In an effort to understand how we should think about their moral status, we will also examine the questions of whether, and to what extent, animals experience pain and emotions.
Instructor: Greenway

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Computer Science

The most common introductory-level Computer Science courses for Cognitive Science majors are:

CS 1110: Introduction to Programming

CS 2102: Discrete Mathematics I

Note: ECE 2066: Science of Information will count for major credit but does not fulfill the CS area requirement.

Elective Credit Only

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Elective Credit Only

Instructor: Tong

BIOL 4360: Cytokine Signaling and Neural Development

Credits: 1 (NOTES: this course will not fulfill COGS area or upper level course requirement and is only one credit hour)

Requisites: Instructor Permission

Instructor: Deppmann

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