Cognitive Science
The Graduate Center offers an interdisciplinary concentration in Cognitive Science. Students enrolled in various graduate programs, particularly those in computer science, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, educational psychology, and speech and hearing sciences, may wish to select courses in this concentration.
The concentration provides students in these and related disciplines the opportunity to pursue study and research in the now burgeoning field of cognitive science. Topics central to the concentration will include human intelligence; visual perception; speech perception; mental representation; language acquisition, comprehension, and production; problem solving and reasoning; artificial intelligence; pattern recognition; animal cognition; and the nature of mind and consciousness.
Graduate students pursuing study in this concentration will draw up a program plan in consultation with faculty representatives from the several programs participating in the concentration. In addition to interdisciplinary courses specially designed for the concentration, students will have available many courses in each of the participating programs that will contribute to their training in cognitive science.
Students wishing to pursue interdisciplinary work in cognitive science should enroll in one of the existing Ph.D. programs and will be expected to meet the requirements of that program.
For further information, interested students should contact Professor David M. Rosehthal, Ph.D. Program in Philosophy, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, 1-212-817-8615.
