Cognitive Studies Minor

Cognitive Studies is an interdisciplinary area of research concerned with understanding the nature and development of intelligent capacities such as perception, language, reasoning, planning, problem-solving, and related skills.

The Cognitive Studies program examines different approaches to questions concerning the nature of mind, the representation of knowledge, the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language, the development of learning and intelligence, the use of information to draw inferences and make decisions, and the assessment of “goodness of fit” between purportedly similar systems (e.g., the computer and the mind).

Cognitive studies contact: Professor Dorothea Olkowski, dolkowsk@uccs.edu.

General Requirements

• 18 credit hours of coursework, 9 of which must be upper-division (3000+ level)
• All courses must be completed with a grade of C- or better
• A minimum GPA of 2.0 is required to complete the minor