Cognitive Studies- Bachelor of Arts, Cognitive Studies
- Cognitive Studies Minor
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- Thomas Carter (dept. coord.), Ph.D., Colorado ('81)
- Lin Myers, Ph.D. Uniformed Services Univ. of the Health Sciences ('85)
- James Tuedio, Ph.D., Colorado ('83)
- James Wakefield Jr., Ph.D., Univ. of Houston ('73)
- Annhenrie Campbell, Ph.D., Colorado ('91)
- Harold Stanislaw, Ph.D., UCLA ('87)
- Juan Flores, Ed.D., Pacific ('83)
- Nancy Taniguchi, Ph.D., Utah ('85)
- David Lindsay, Ph.D., Kent State ('92)
- Richard Savini, M.F.A., Brooklyn College ('70)
- Dawn Strongin, Ph.D., North Colorado ('01)
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The Cognitive Studies degree program offers an integrative approach to the study of human consciousness and cognitive processing. This program draws from fields including philosophy, computer science, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, art, biology, and physics. Cognitive Studies emphasizes strategies for investigating how biological and artificial brains solve problems.
Where can a degree in Cognitive Studies take you? Possible career paths/fields of work include: marketing, computer programmer, consultant, intelligence analyst, telecommunications, information processing, medical analysis, data representation and retrieval, education, scientific research, multimedia design, and software.
- Nonlinear Systems and Chaos
- Philosophical Aspects of Cognitive Science
- Seminar in Cognitive Studies
- Introduction to Linguistic Theory
- Philosophy of Mind
- Introduction to Physiological Psychology
- Cognitive Processes
- Introductory Genetics Go online to cogs.csustan.edu for more course descriptions.
COGS 3100:
Communication Networks
The emergence of telecommunications networks is creating new environments for human interactions that are altering social dynamics. The course introduces students to the diversity of network technologies and provides them with sufficient hands-on skills for the field.
- The disciplines' central themes, including the view of consciousness as an information processing system, how consciousness arises from basic physiological processes, the emergence of patterns and adaptive pattern-recognition, and nonlinear dynamical methods for modeling complex systems
- To examine issues associated with human/machine interfaces, exploring the basic processes of memory and decision
Cognitive Studies
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