DPT: Cognitive Science (BSc Hons) (UTCOGSCBS)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Before making your course choices, make sure you have discussed them with your Student Adviser, or someone in your Student Support Team.

Please note that all students must pass Informatics 1 - Introduction to Computation INFR08025 (INF1A), and Informatics 1 - Object Oriented Programming INFR08029 (INF1B) before they are allowed to progress into Year 2 of this degree.

Compulsory courses

Informatics 1 - Cognitive Science

Must be passed

Informatics 1 - Introduction to Computation

Must be passed

Informatics 1 - Object Oriented Programming

Must be passed

Linear Algebra 1

Must be passed

Course options

Calculus and Algebra for Informatics MATH07005 (CAFI) is required for students with Higher Mathematics only, or Advanced Higher less than Grade A, or A-level Mathematics less than grade A, or equivalent. It is not recommended for students with A-level Mathematics at Grade A*, or SQA Advanced Higher at Grade A, or equivalent.

Calculus and Algebra Fundamentals for Informatics

AND

Linguistics and English Language 1A

Philosophy of Science 1

Introduction to Cognitive Science

Psychology 1A

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Before making your course choices, make sure you have discussed them with your Student Adviser, or someone in your Student Support Team.

In addition to passing all compulsory courses, entry to Honours years requires an average of 50%, achieved at first attempt, across Year 2 School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences courses taken for degree; and passes in all these courses.

Compulsory courses

Discrete Mathematics and Probability

Must be passed

Course options

Some Honours Psychology courses require Data Analysis for Psychology in R 2 PSYL08015 as a pre-requisite.

In particular, the Dissertation in Psychology PSYL10004 strongly recommends Data Analysis for Psychology in R 3 PSYL10168, which requires Data Analysis for Psychology in R 2 PSYL08015.

Students planning to take these courses should register for Data Analysis for Psychology in R 2 PSYL08015, other students should register for Informatics 2 - Foundations of Data Science INFR08030.

Informatics 2 - Foundations of Data Science

Data Analysis for Psychology in R 2

AND

Students who register for Data Analysis for Psychology in R 2 PSYL08015 are strongly recommended to register for both of the following courses to ensure enough Informatics background to support Honours Informatics study.

Informatics 2D - Reasoning and Agents

Informatics 2 - Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures

AND

Students planning to take Honours Psychology courses should register for both Psychology 2A PSYL08011 and Psychology 2B PSYL08012.

Students planning to take Honours Linguistics or Philosophy courses should check the prerequisites for those courses to guide their choice of Year 2 courses.

LEL2A: Linguistic Theory and the Structure of English

LEL2B: Phonetic Analysis and Empirical Methods

LEL2D: Cross-linguistic Variation: Limits and Theories

Mind, Matter and Language

Knowledge and Reality

Psychology 2A

Psychology 2B

AND

These are courses in all Schools other than Medicine, or the Centre for Open Learning.

Year 3 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Before making your course choices make sure you have discussed them with your Student Adviser, or someone in your Student Support Team.

Some third year courses are prerequisites for specific fourth year courses, you are advised to consider your plans for fourth year when making your course choices.

Please note that if the course Computational Cognitive Science INFR10054 (CCS) is not offered in Year 3 of this degree, then students will be granted a concession to take this course in Year 4.

Students who may want to complete the Dissertation in Philosophy PHIL10026 in Year 4 are required to take the Philosophy Dissertation Information Course PHIL10228 in Year 3.

Compulsory courses

Computational Cognitive Science

Informatics Large Practical

Course options

These are Artificial Intelligence courses open to third-year undergraduate students.

Computational Cognitive Science

Foundations of Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning

Automated Reasoning

Introduction to Mobile Robotics

Speech Processing (Hons)

AND

These are other Informatics courses open to third-year undergraduate students.

Algorithms and Data Structures

Software Testing

Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science

Elements of Programming Languages

Compiling Techniques

Computer Security

Computer Communications and Networks

Computer Architecture and Design

Operating Systems

Introduction to Databases

Informatics Experiential Learning (Level 10)

Modelling Concurrent Systems (Level 10)

AND

Courses are only permitted under this option when the 'normal year taken' is 'year 3 undergraduate'.

AND

Professional Issues (Level 10)

AND

These are courses in all Schools other than Medicine, Veterinary Studies, or the Centre for Open Learning, and include courses normally taken by fourth-year students. In the case that this DPT option is chosen, you are advised to obtain permission to take the course from the Course Organiser, and have the course choice approved by your student support team.

Year 4 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Before making your course choices make sure you have discussed them with your Student Adviser, or someone in your Student Support Team.

Select your Honours Project options from either Group A (School of Informatics) or Group B (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences) below.

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