Other students need a 3.5 GPA to enroll in honors courses. An interdisciplinary investigation of intelligence. Examination of perception, memory, language, reasoning, problem solving, and consciousness from the varying perspectives of the core disciplines. Methods and principles of human behavior are studied within the context of scientific inquiry.
Psychology is compared to and contrasted with other sciences, noting commonalities and differences.
Recent advances in neuroscience and cognitive science have led to a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of human thought and behavior. Principles of modern biological science with discussion on the impact of this science in today's world. Selected topics include principles of metabolism, genetics, physiology, evolution, and ecology. The relation between mathematics and our cultural heritage, the role of mathematics in history and the role of history in mathematics, the nature and power of contemporary mathematics, the need of doing mathematics to learn mathematics, the verbalization and reasoning necessary to understand symbolism, and the existence of a large body of interesting writing about mathematics. A multi-cultural examination of the principles and philosophies of the visual arts and the ideas expressed through them.