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Degree Programme Table: Cognitive Science (Humanities) (MA Hons) (UTCOSCS)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: September

Notes:
Logic 1 may be replaced with INFR08025 Informatics 1 - Introduction to Computation (20 credits).

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Introduction to Cognitive Science
PPLS08002 20 credits
Logic 1
PHIL08004 20 credits
Linguistics and English Language 1A

Must be taken during Semester 1

LASC08022 20 credits
Informatics 1 - Cognitive Science

Must be taken during Semester 1

INFR08020 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select exactly 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Year 2 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Research Methods and Statistics

Must be passed 1st time and taken during Full Year

PPLS08001 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 100 credits in this group.

Cognitive Science (Humanities) (MA Hons) - Level 8

Select exactly 80 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students must select 60 credits for breadth, sampling from 3 out of the 4 subject areas (Philosophy, Psychology, LEL, and Informatics). In addition students must have 20 credits of depth in 1 of their 3 breadth subject areas. Note also that INF2A in year 2 will require the student to have done sufficient Informatics coursework in year 1; see handbook for sample pathways.
Informatics 2A - Processing Formal and Natural Languages
INFR08008 20 credits
LEL2A: Linguistic Theory and the Structure of English
LASC08017 20 credits
LEL2B: Phonetic Analysis and Empirical Methods
LASC08018 20 credits
LEL2D: Cross-linguistic Variation: Limits and Theories
LASC08020 20 credits
Mind, Matter and Language
PHIL08014 20 credits
Knowledge and Reality
PHIL08017 20 credits
Psychology 2A
PSYL08011 20 credits
Psychology 2B
PSYL08012 20 credits
AND

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select exactly 20 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Notes:
It is recommended that students take another 20 credits of PPLS or Informatics year 2 courses, on an as-needed basis for prerequisites to Honours courses of interest.

Year 3 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Notes:
Progression to Honours requires:
A pass at 40% in Research Methods and Statistics at the FIRST ATTEMPT.
An average of 50%, achieved at first attempt, across year 2 courses taken for degree and (2) a minimum of 40%, achieved at the first attempt, in those courses.

Students must take at least 20 credits from at least 3 out of the 4 subject areas (Philosophy, Psychology, LEL, Informatics) at some point during years 3 and 4 combined. The expectation is that these courses will be in the subject areas that the student studied in year 2.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 120 credits in this group.

Philosophy Level 10 courses

Select between 0 and 100 credits from Philosophy Level 10 courses
Notes:
Students should discuss the coherence of course choices with their Personal Tutor. Students must ensure that they fulfill the pre requisite of each course chosen from these collections.

It is strongly recommended that students in year 3 select courses that are usually taken in year 3.
AND

Language Sciences Level 10 courses

Select between 0 and 100 credits from Language Sciences Level 10 courses
Notes:
Students should discuss the coherence of course choices with their Personal Tutor. Students must ensure that they fulfill the pre requisite of each course chosen from these collections.
AND

Psychology courses - Year 3 (MA Hons) - Level 10

Select between 0 and 100 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students should discuss the coherence of course choices with their Personal Tutor. Students must ensure that they fulfill the pre requisite of each course chosen from these collections.

Students are also permitted to take PSYL10126 Research Methods and Statistics 2 and/or PSYL10127 Research Methods & Statistics 3.
Critical and Discursive Social Psychology
PSYL10134 20 credits
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Childhood
PSYL10135 20 credits
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Infancy
PSYL10136 20 credits
Thinking and Reasoning
PSYL10138 20 credits
Psychological Therapies
PSYL10145 20 credits
Personality Topics
PSYL10146 20 credits
Motivation and Emotion
PSYL10147 20 credits
Methods and Controversies in Parapsychology
PSYL10149 20 credits
Introduction to Neural Network Modelling
PSYL10151 20 credits
Perception, Action , Cognition
PSYL10152 20 credits
AND

Level 9 and 10 courses in the School of Informatics

Select between 0 and 100 credits from Level 9 and 10 courses in the School of Informatics
Notes:
Students should discuss the coherence of course choices with their Personal Tutor. Students must ensure that they fulfill the pre requisite of each course chosen from these collections.
AND

Philosophy Dissertation Preparation Course

Select exactly 0 credits of the following courses
Philosophy Dissertation Preparation Course
PHIL10151 0 credits

Year 4 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Notes:
Students must take at least 20 credits from at least 3 out of the 4 subject areas (Philosophy, Psychology, LEL, Informatics) at some point during years 3 and 4 combined. The expectation is that these courses will be in the subject areas that the student studied in year 2.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) I - Dissertation Cog Sci (MA Hons) - Level(s) 10

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
The choice of dissertation topic must be appropriate to Cognitive Science and span at least two of the subject areas of Philosophy, Psychology, Language Sciences or Informatics
Honours Project (Informatics)
INFR10044 40 credits
Dissertation in Language Sciences
LASC10024 40 credits
Dissertation in Philosophy
PHIL10026 40 credits
Dissertation in Psychology
PSYL10004 40 credits
AND

Group B

Select exactly 80 credits in this group.

Philosophy Honours Year 4

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students should discuss the coherence of course choices with their Personal Tutor.

It is strongly recommended that students in year 4 select courses that are usually taken in year 4.
Philosophy of Language
PHIL10005 20 credits
Philosophy of Religion
PHIL10007 20 credits
The Philosophy of Wittgenstein
PHIL10014 20 credits
Applied Ethics
PHIL10017 20 credits
Meta-Ethics
PHIL10019 20 credits
Feminism
PHIL10022 20 credits
Theories of Mind (Philosophy Hons)
PHIL10024 20 credits
Philosophy and the Environment
PHIL10064 20 credits
Themes in Epistemology
PHIL10072 20 credits
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
PHIL10090 20 credits
Political Philosophy
PHIL10093 20 credits
The Nature of Moral Understanding
PHIL10099 20 credits
Ancient Aesthetics
PHIL10114 20 credits
Aesthetics
PHIL10117 20 credits
Philosophy of Time Travel ( S1)
PHIL10127 20 credits
Aristotle
PHIL10130 20 credits
Social Cognition
PHIL10131 20 credits
Logic, Computability and Incompleteness
PHIL10133 20 credits
Philosophy: Fun and Games
PHIL10143 20 credits
Environmental Ethics
PHIL10147 20 credits
Philosophy of Science (Honours)
PHIL10149 20 credits
Philosophy of Well-Being
PHIL10152 20 credits
The Philosophy of Fiction
PHIL10153 20 credits
Metaphysics
PHIL10155 20 credits
Puzzles and Paradoxes
PHIL10156 20 credits
Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty
PHIL10158 20 credits
Belief, Desire and Rational Choice
PHIL10159 20 credits
Knowledge, Ignorance and Power
PHIL10160 20 credits
The Philosophy of Simone Weil
PHIL10161 20 credits
Logic 2: Modal Logics
PHIL10162 20 credits
Philosophy of Law
PHIL10166 20 credits
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
PHIL10167 20 credits
Kant
PHIL10169 20 credits
Freedom and the State: The Social Contract
PHIL10170 20 credits
Topics in the Philosophy of Gender and Race
PHIL10172 20 credits
Philosophy of Psychiatry
PHIL10173 20 credits
Topics in Mind and Cognition
PHIL10174 20 credits
Late Modern Philosophy
PHIL10175 20 credits
Freedom, Consent and Political Obligation
PHIL10176 20 credits
Ethics
PHIL10178 20 credits
Chinese Philosophy
PHIL10179 20 credits
Advanced Topics in Metaphysics
PHIL10180 20 credits
Ancient Philosophy
PHIL10181 20 credits
Early Modern Philosophy
PHIL10182 20 credits
AND

Language Sciences Level 10 courses

Select between 0 and 60 credits from Language Sciences Level 10 courses
Notes:
Students should discuss the coherence of course choices with their Personal Tutor
AND

Courses from School(s) I - Psychology ( Hons Fourth Year) - Level(s) 10

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students should discuss the coherence of course choices with their Personal Tutor
Children with Language Impairments
PSYL10014 10 credits
Parapsychology
PSYL10026 10 credits
Psycholinguistics of Language Production
PSYL10027 10 credits
Psychological Therapies
PSYL10033 10 credits
Sentence Processing and Psycholinguistics
PSYL10061 10 credits
Causes and Consequences of Personality
PSYL10064 10 credits
Frontal Lobe Functions
PSYL10075 10 credits
Marxist Psychology
PSYL10092 10 credits
Multisensory Integration
PSYL10097 10 credits
Moral Judgment and Behaviour
PSYL10100 10 credits
Intelligence, Personality and Health
PSYL10101 10 credits
Working Memory
PSYL10117 10 credits
Psychology of Counselling
PSYL10118 10 credits
Debates in Current Personality
PSYL10120 10 credits
Class: The Psychology of Wealth, Poverty, and Social Rank
PSYL10123 10 credits
Social Psychological Approaches to Health
PSYL10128 10 credits
Intimate Relationships
PSYL10132 10 credits
Active Vision
PSYL10133 10 credits
AND

Level 9, 10 and 11 courses in the School of Informatics

Select between 0 and 60 credits from Level 9, 10 and 11 courses in the School of Informatics
Notes:
Select between 0 and 60 credits from Level 9 -11 courses in the School of Informatics. NOTES: Relevant courses are those listed as Year 4 Undergraduate, not those listed as Year 3 Undergraduate or Level 11 (Postgraduate)

Students should discuss the coherence of course choices with their Personal Tutor
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