Cognitive Studies- Bachelor of Arts, Cognitive Studies
- Cognitive Studies Minor
- Those majoring in Cognitive Studies can complete their concentration in Environmental Sciences.
- Information Services Consultant, $101,122 annually in our region
- Mainframe Programmer, $50,852 annually in our region
- Neurologist, $85,662 annually in our region
- Thomas Carter (dept. coord.), Ph.D.
- Lin Myers, Ph.D.
- James Tuedio, Ph.D.
- James Wakefield Jr., Ph.D.
- Annhenrie Campbell, Ph.D.
- Harold Stanislaw, Ph.D.
- Juan Flores, Ed.D.
- Nancy Taniguchi, Ph.D
- David Lindsay, Ph.D.
- Richard Savini, M.F.A.
- Dawn Strongin, Ph.D.
The College provides the state and region with outstanding medical, technical, and scientific professionals, and also responds to the national and regional need for science leading to the sustainability of our valuable environmental resources.
CNS contact info
Dean: Roger R. McNeil, Ph.D.
Phone: (209) 667-3153
E-mail: PMartin@csustan.edu
Web site: www.csustan.edu/CNS
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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
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 conscious-ness as an information process-ing system, how consciousness arises from basic physiological processes, the emergence of patterns and adaptive pattern-recognition, and nonlinear dynamical methods for model-ing complex systems
- To examine issues associated with human/machine interfac-es, exploring the basic process-es of memory and decision
Cognitive Studies
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Turlock, CA 95382