Back to top Interesting courses You can choose from a variety of courses in Philosophy, Psychology, English or French linguistics, Computer Science, and Systems Design Engineering, including two courses specially created for the Cognitive Science option. This broad overview shows how different fields of study contribute to Cognitive Science. You'll learn about a variety of computer-based models of how the mind works and discuss how we could expand these models beyond their present limits. In this new course you will learn to build computer models of the way the mind works when it's engaged in problem-solving, learning, seeing, or speaking, and discuss the philosophical and psychological implications of your work. English 306A - Introduction to Linguistics.
Language is a key part of human intelligence.
This course takes you through a study of the sounds, forms, and structures of English, and how we put them together to communicate meaning. Computer Science 486 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. You'll learn how to solve programming problems, use mathematical logic, and process language, with game-playing as one of your tools. Philosophy 255 - Philosophy of Mind. A computer model of what goes through people's minds when they use an e-commerce web site, to find out what makes some web sites more useful than others.