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2025-2026 General/Graduate Catalog - Expires August 2031

Cognitive Science Minor

Affiliation: Interdisciplinary Studies

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the mind and its processes — how and why we think the way we think. Perhaps one of the most interdisciplinary fields offered at Truman, cognitive science lies at the crossroads of neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, anthropology and artificial intelligence.

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS:

  1. A 2.00 GPA in minor requirements.
  2. At least nine hours of the program requirements must be completed at Truman State University.
  3. No more than two courses counted for the minor may double-count for the student’s major.
  4. No more than two courses counted for the minor can come from the same discipline. 
  5. Courses cannot be double counted to fulfill more than one area of focus. The same course listed as an option under multiple areas of focus can count for only one of those categories.  
  6. Students who double major may double-count up to two courses from each major.

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (16 credits):

The only required course in the minor is IDSM 431 (1 credit), taken after the student has completed the bulk of the other courses in the minor. Students choose from the Area of Focus below for a total of 16 credits, with courses in different areas of focus distributed as 2-2-1 or 2-1-1-1.

CAPSTONE (1 credit):

  • Credit(s): 1

  • After having completed at least nine (9) credits, and preferably twelve (12) credits, in the minor, students create and submit a reflective essay geared toward the following:

    1. synthesizing the threads of cognitive science in their program of study to date, and
    2. demonstrating the contribution of their specific coursework and research (and internship experience, if any) to their understanding of the field of cognitive science.

    This essay is prepared in consultation with one faculty member serving on the Cognitive Science Minor Committee or a faculty member who teaches one of the course options for the minor. 

AREAS OF FOCUS (15 credits):

Area I: Computational Cognition

Area II: Language and Cognition

Area III: Philosophy of Cognition

Area IV: Psychology of Cognition