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COGST 1111
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This course focuses on how leaders in a variety of fields use design as a social change agent. It interweaves theories of leadership and creative problem-solving through case study examinations of a wide ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: DEA 1110
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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWF M Van Rensselaer Hall G73
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Kao, C
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Lab fee: $15 (charged to bursar bill).
COGST 1500
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Environmental Psychology is an interdisciplinary field concerned with how the physical environment and human behavior interrelate. Most of the course focuses on how residential environments and urban and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COGST 1501, DEA 1500, DEA 1501, PSYCH 1500, PSYCH 1501
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Kennedy Hall 116-Call Aud
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Evans, G
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- F Kennedy Hall 116-Call Aud
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Evans, G
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- F Plant Science Building G37
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Evans, G
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- F Warren Hall 150
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Evans, G
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- F Warren Hall 173
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Evans, G
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- F Warren Hall B75
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Evans, G
Lee, J
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- F Statler Hall 351
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Evans, G
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- F Statler Hall 341
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Evans, G
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- F Statler Hall 445
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Evans, G
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- F Comstock Hall-Academic II B108
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Evans, G
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- F Statler Hall 165
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Evans, G
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- F Statler Hall 198
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Evans, G
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- F Stimson Hall G01
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Evans, G
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- F Rockefeller Hall 115
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Evans, G
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- F Statler Hall 398
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Evans, G
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- F Rockefeller Hall 102
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Evans, G
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- F Rockefeller Hall 128
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Evans, G
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- F Riley-Robb Hall B15
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Evans, G
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- F Snee Hall Geological Sci 1120
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Evans, G
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- F Fernow Hall G24
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Evans, G
COGST 1501
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Human-Environment Relations is an interdisciplinary field concerned with how the physical environment and human behavior interrelate. Most of the course focuses on how residential environments and urban ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture, one discussion, and one laboratory. Combined with: COGST 1500, DEA 1500, DEA 1501, PSYCH 1500, PSYCH 1501
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Kennedy Hall 116-Call Aud
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Evans, G
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- F Plant Science Building 141
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Evans, G
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- M Plant Science Building 141
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Evans, G
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- W Kennedy Hall 101
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Evans, G
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- W Warren Hall 137
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Evans, G
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COGST 2230
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Introduction to psychology from a biological perspective, which focuses on brain mechanisms of behavior. Topics include the structure and function of the nervous system, physiological approaches ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PSYCH 2230
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
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Devoogd, T
COGST 2300
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This course will provide you with an overview of how children's cognition develops. We will investigate how cognition develops from many different perspectives. The main perspectives will be biological, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HD 2300
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- T Uris Hall 262
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Bian, L
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- R Uris Hall 262
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Bian, L
COGST 2310
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Covers sentential languages, the truth-functional connectives, and their logic; first-order languages, the quantifiers "every" and "some," and their logic. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PHIL 2310
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
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Hodes, H
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- M Rockefeller Hall 104
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Staff
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- R Rockefeller Hall 105
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Staff
COGST 2621
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Throughout history, metaphors drawn from technology of the time have been proposed to understand how the mind works. While Locke likened the newborn's mind to a blank slate, Freud compared the mind to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 2621
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
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Starr, W
COGST 3250
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This course will focus on the complex interactions between neurochemicals and their receptors (pharmacodynamics) that drive human behavior. It will provide an overview of the principles of neurotransmission ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HD 3250
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Plant Science Building 143
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DeRosa, E
COGST 3330
Course Description
In this class we will discuss the properties of truth-conditional semantics, with a focus on those phenomena that have been used to question the adequacy of such systems. The course starts of by discussing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COGST 6333, LING 3333, LING 6333, PHIL 3700, PHIL 6700
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Baker Laboratory 219
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Mendia, J
COGST 3420
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Our present technology allows us to transmit and display information through a variety of media. To make the most of these media channels, it is important to consider the limitations and abilities of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PSYCH 3420, PSYCH 6420, VISST 3342
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3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Malott Hall 251
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Field, D
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Recommended prerequisite: PSYCH 2050. 4-credit option is by permission of faculty.
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COGST 3660
Course Description
Focuses on networks of brain regions that are organized around the integration of processes related to emotion and motivation. The course first explores brain pathways for processing visual, auditory, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HD 3660
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Caldwell Hall 100
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Anderson, A
COGST 4150
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Seminar on the essential features and qualities of culture and how it impacts human endeavors. Because understanding culture necessarily requires interaction across multiple areas of study, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COGST 6150, COML 4229, PSYCH 4150
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- T Uris Hall 205
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Christiansen, M
Dubreuil, L
COGST 4250
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Introductory laboratory-based course focusing on basic foundations in translational research on decision making across the lifespan. The course introduces students to hands-on applications of research ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HD 4250
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Plant Science Building 141
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Reyna, V
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COGST 4265
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Laboratory-based course focusing on basic foundations in translational research on the neuroscience of human memory and memory development. Students attend a weekly lab meeting for 1.5 hours per week, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HD 4260
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- W Malott Hall 207
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Brainerd, C
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COGST 4330
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How do we perceive and know the world around us? Which are the multiple ways in which we negotiate this knowledge into language and embodied practice? Does one's position in society matter? Is the thing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4330, STS 4330
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- T Rockefeller Hall 110
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Cortesi, L
COGST 4700
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Experience in planning, conducting, and reporting independent laboratory, field, and/or library research in an interdisciplinary area relevant to Cognitive Science. view course details
COGST 4710
Course Description
Provides a research workshop in which undergraduate students who are engaged in research in a particular area relevant to cognitive science can meet across disciplines to learn and practice the essentials ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TBA
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Staff
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COGST 4720
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The course will cover advanced topics in research on the emotions from central neural and peripheral physiological perspectives, with an emphasis with how emotions shape different aspects of cognition ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HD 4720
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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- R Uris Hall 398
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Anderson, A
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COGST 4740
Course Description
This course constitutes an introduction to natural language processing (NLP), the goal of which is to enable computers to use human languages as input, output, or both. NLP is at the heart of many of today's ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CS 4740, CS 5740, LING 4474
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Olin Hall 155
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Cardie, C
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COGST 6020
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This hands-on laboratory course will develop research skills in the context of risk and rational decision making in human development from multiple disciplinary perspectives and with respect to different ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HD 6020
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- M Kennedy Hall 103
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Reyna, V
COGST 6150
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No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COGST 4150, COML 4229, PSYCH 4150
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- T Uris Hall 205
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Christiansen, M
Dubreuil, L
COGST 6333
Course Description
In this class we will discuss the properties of truth-conditional semantics, with a focus on those phenomena that have been used to question the adequacy of such systems. The course starts of by discussing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COGST 3330, LING 3333, LING 6333, PHIL 3700, PHIL 6700
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Baker Laboratory 219
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Mendia, J
COGST 7710
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Addresses current theoretical and empirical issues in computational linguistics. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LING 7710
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Morrill Hall 110
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van Schijndel, M