Undergraduate Student Meeting 1152020 Agenda Announcements For all

Undergraduate Student Meeting 1/15/2020

Agenda • Announcements • For all programs • Program-specific • Discussion • • ‘social events’ or other out-of-classroom gatherings Arch Registration Other curricular issues

Announcements

New Faculty • John Milanese, Lecturer in Philosophy • • • Minds and Machines Philosophy of Science Ethics of AI Critical Thinking Inductive Logic (? ) • Ben Weissman, Lecturer in Linguistics • Introduction to Linguistics -> every semester! • Introduction to Cognitive Science -> every semester! • [some Advanced Linguistics course]

Wednesday External Speakers This Semester • February 5, PD Magnus, Philosophy, SUNY Albany • [something on inductive reasoning? ] • February 26, Jeffrey Siskind, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University • [something on machine learning? ] • March 18, David Rosenbaum, Psychology, UC Riverside • [something on planning of action? ] • All other talks this semester are by COGS graduate students • For a complete schedule of speakers go to Speaker Series on the Cognitive Science department home page • If you think of a potential speaker, let me know!

Co-Terminal Program • Obtain Master’s and B. S in 5 years • • Start working on M. S. in fourth year B. S. must be completed in up to eight semesters, with a minimum GPA of 3. 0. Applications are due prior to the end of the first semester of senior year. Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to begin talking with their undergraduate advisors during their sophomore or junior years. • Any professor (including Lecturers) can be faculty advisor for Master’s

Culminating Experience

Old Curriculum for BS in Cognitive Science (before 2019) • Basic Math /Science • Calc. I + II • Comp Sci I, Data Structures, FOCS, Intro to Algorithms • 11 core courses: • • • Minds & Machines Introduction to Cognitive Science Introduction to Logic Experimental Methods and Statistics Cognitive Psychology Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience Introduction to Linguistics Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Modeling Sensation and Perception Metaphysics & Consciousness • 2 Electives • Cog Sci related courses from PHIL, PSYC, CSCI, and a few others • Undergraduate Thesis

New Curriculum for BS in Cognitive Science (2019+) • Basic Math /Science • Calc. I + II • Comp Sci I, Data Structures, FOCS, Intro to Algorithms • 9 11 core courses: • • • Minds & Machines Introduction to Cognitive Science Introduction to Logic Experimental Methods and Statistics I Cognitive Psychology OR Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience Introduction to Linguistics Introduction to Artificial Intelligence OR Cognitive Modeling Sensation and Perception Metaphysics & Consciousness OR Philosophy of Science • 2 Electives • Cog Sci related courses from PHIL, PSYC, CSCI, and a few others • Undergraduate Thesis