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Twin Cities Campus
Cognitive Science Ph.D.CLA Dean's Office
College of Liberal Arts
Link to a list of faculty for this program.
Contact Information
Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota, 205 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-626-3570; fax: 612-626-7253)
Email:
cogsci@umn.edu
Website: http://www.cogsci.umn.edu
Along with the program-specific requirements listed below, please read the
General Information section of
this
website for requirements that apply to all major fields.
Cognitive science is broadly concerned with integrating contemporary approaches to the study of mind/brain, and with the systems and processes underlying the acquisition and use of knowledge. The coherence of the program lies in its intellectual focus on cognition. This program spans cellular, behavioral, and psychological levels of scientific analysis in the study of cognition in a single unified graduate program. It integrates the diverse content, methods, and perspectives of a number of different disciplines (e.g., anthropology, biology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology), which are concerned with or in some sense inform our understanding of cognition. The Ph.D. program trains cognitive scientists to conduct research integrating methodologies and content knowledge from a variety of approaches. In order to ensure an interdisciplinary approach, each student has two coadvisers from the cognitive science graduate faculty, each representing a different discipline from within the cognitive sciences.
Program Delivery
Prerequisites for Admission
Special Application Requirements:
Applicants must apply through the Graduate School's Apply Now interface. They must submit a completed Graduate School Application, scores from the GRE, and three letters of recommendation. Applicants wishing to be considered for financial support should apply no later than January 1 of the preceding academic year. Entry is usually in fall semester but may be permitted in other semesters in exceptional cases.
International applicants must submit score(s) from one of the following tests:
Key to test
abbreviations
(TOEFL, IELTS, MELAB).
For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the
General Information section of this
website.
Program Requirements
34
credits are required in the major.
12 credits are required outside the major. 24 thesis credits are required.
This program may be completed with a minor.
Use of 4xxx courses toward program requirements is permitted under certain conditions with adviser approval.
The Ph.D. program requires a minimum of 46 credits, in addition to 24 thesis credits. Students are required to take two core courses with a CGSC designator, as well as 9 credits of independent study related to research. Responsible Conduct of Research training is required and is integrated into the two core courses taken by all students. Other course requirements are distributed among component disciplines and fields. Courses are intended to provide a foundation for the student's research program. Students are expected to conduct two research projects prior to taking their preliminary written exams. A report on the first-year research project should be concluded by the first term of the second year. A report on the second-year research project should be completed by the second term of the third year. The preliminary written exams will typically be (but are not necessarily) expansions of the first- and second-year research projects. The two Ph.D. written preliminary projects are expected to be of near publishable quality. As entry into the Ph.D. program assumes no previous graduate work, students who enter the program with an M.A. or other graduate coursework in a cognitive science-related discipline may apply credits from their previous graduate work towards the required 46 credits.
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